Gallagher & Robertson

2001

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

On-screen function keys Automatic enhancement of function key texts Buttons are directly clickable

New facelift config box

New menus Toolbar bitmaps in menu items

Putting it all together A complete ‘new look’

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...

IBM 3270 graphics

IBM 3270 graphics

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

FTP client

New external utility, integrated with Glink and the script language

Secure Sockets Stunnel, or equivalent secure socket

server, on host or front-end Glink client negotiates secure socket

protocol with the host security system

Do you want to take a lookand try it yourself?

It is available for download from:

https://www.glink.com/glink/indexd.htm