New look for toolbar
‘flat’ look with raised button as mouse passes over
note new handle for dragging the toolbar
Floating toolbar, button bar
Toolbar can be undocked to work as an independent window
Toolbar can be redocked either at top or at bottom of screen
Current positions can be saved in config Same functionality is provided for all other
toolbars
Function and keyboard bars Function bar provides function keys
specific to emulation Keyboard bar provides other emulation-
specific special keys Both can operate in docked or undocked
mode Can be disabled dynamically from the
system menu, or in the configuration using Screen=>Windows attributes
Screen backgrounds Background image for main screen Either JPEG or BMP format supported Stretching, tiling and centring
Screen frames Configurable empty area around emulation
screen Can use any JPEG or BMP file as wallpaper
Summary – Glink Professional Appearance
New features New look for toolbar Floating toolbar and button bar New function and keyboard bars On-screen function keys Screen backgrounds Screen frames New menus
but there’s more...
UNIX/General Communications ANSI 3.64 or VTnnn emulation.
The VTnnn emulation supports VT102, VT220 and most features of the VT340, including the most commonly used Regis graphics commands.
The Glink Professional APIGlink for Windows Api is compatible with the Glink for Java API
GlinkApi A Glink instance
GlinkConfigurationRuntime configs
GlinkFields Collection of fields in the last host form
GlinkFieldIndividual fields in field collection
GlinkKey A keystroke, regular or function key
GlinkEventEvent notification sent by API to client application
GlinkScreenArea Description of a screen string area
Glink Api COM+ component
Hard-coded API sessions limit 5 for the Professional Edition
Full blown Glink The API starts a full Glink
can be used as a normal Glink includes the full Glink emulation screen
display defaults to invisible at startup
includes Glink scriptingclient applications can remain invisible, wait
events keyboard, print data
Not intended for Server applications The Enterprise Edition is coming for
server-side applications
Glink Api interfacesAvailable with Glink Professional Edition (and Enterprise Edition in the future)
Event interface turn, start, connect, screen strings...
Screen interface read/write text, read attributes...
Field interface field enumeration, attributes, position, index...
GlinkApi documentation
Microsoft HTML Help format, GlinkApi.chm icon
Generated from state-of-the-art Javadoc familiar to all Java programmers
Other goodiesMoved to WinSock 2
allows multiple transport stacks to coexist looking at QOS, Quality Of Service
&
Secure sockets!!!!!!!!!!!
Additionally
FTP client
Removed Pascal 255 string limit no script variable size limit
Secure Sockets Stunnel, or equivalent secure socket
server, on host or front-end Glink client negotiates secure socket
protocol with the host security system