How Do I Map vt220 for 4.5 ?

From: Simon Wood <simon_at_netwood.demon.co.uk>
Date: 1997/01/05
Message-ID: <32D033D1.21A7_at_netwood.demon.co.uk>#1/1


We have 1000 users running Keaterm vt220 emulators on PCs connecting to forms 3 on Unix. We are porting the system to Forms 4.5 running locally on the PCs ( MS-Windows 3.11 ) against the Unix database. How can we use the same keys under Windows as we use through the emulator ? I have tried to use Oracle Terminal but it fails to recognise some of the keys even in macro mode ( notably the numeric keypad '/' '*','-','+',Enter and Numlock keys ) and fails to differentiate between other keys - e.g. keypad uparrow (8) is the same as cursor uparrow - although our emulator treats them as two separate functions.

Do we need to write some sort of keystroke trapping utility ( c++ ) or is there a 3rd part tool we could use ? We could try persuading the users to use our new toolbar buttons or to use the standard Oracle pc keymappings but most of our users are as moveable as a small plannet.

Any help or advice appreciated. Received on Sun Jan 05 1997 - 00:00:00 CET

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