IBM 5250 emulation options

Any command key resets error

If an error has occurred, normally the keyboard is unlocked with the Reset command key only. If this option is checked, any command key will reset the error state and unlock the keyboard.

Display error on status bar

Normally error messages are displayed in line 25 of the 5250 screen. If the option is checked, errors are instead displayed in the status bar of Glink.

Treat line as error message line

Text from the host at the line specified will be regarded as an error text and will be displayed on the status line together with a notification sound. Text starting after position 10 on this line will not be regarded as an error text.

- If error message line contains

If one or more search strings are specified, the error message line specified above must contain one of these strings to be treated as an error message line.

The whole line is search for a matching string. An optional column parameter can be added, then a matching string must start in that column.

The error message line is display on the status line but can be suppressed with an optional parameter. The notification sound is played in both cases.

The parameter supports the following syntax: 

    text1:text2;col=n,msg=false
Please note that search strings are separated with colon. Any optional parameters are preceded with a semicolon. These parameters again are separated with a comma.

Some examples:

MAIN

The line must contain MAIN
MAIN;msg=false

The line must contain MAIN. No message, only notification sound
MAIN;col=2,msg=false

The line must contain MAIN at column 2. No message, only notification sound
MAIN:OFCTSK;col=2

The line must contain MAIN or OFCTSK at column 2.

Mute host alarm

Ignore alarms issued by the host application (The volume control and alarm sound is configured in the iOS/Android Settings).

Mute key input alarm

Ignore key input error alarms (The volume control and alarm sound is configured in the iOS/Android Settings).

Show SO/SI characters

If the host is using double byte character set like Chinese, Japanese or Korean, it might be convenient to see where SO and SI characters are in the input fields.

Allow cursor in protected area

Normally if you point outside an input field, the cursor is not moved to this location. Instead the keyboard, if displayed, is hidden (removed). If this option is checked, the cursor is instead moved to the protected location without changing the keyboard state.

Alternate arrow keys mode

By default, the arrow keys can move the cursor to any position on the screen. The new position can be in a protected area.

If this option is checked and the arrow key brings the cursor to a protected area, Glink will do a Tab to the next input field for Arrow Down and Arrow Right or do a Back Tab to the previous field for Arrow Up and Arrow Left.

Show light pen fields in blue

Sometimes in can be convenient to distinguish fields that the host application has set as light pen fields from other type of fields.

Auto tab when input field is filled

The cursor is moved to the next field automatically when the current input field is filled.

Auto tab when field is filled with scanned data

The cursor is moved to the next field automatically when the current input field is filled with scanned data. Sometimes it may be convenient to turn off this behavior, for example when scanned data has a Tab character as suffix.

Continuous backspace

By default backspace stops deleting characters at the beginning of the current input field. If this option is checked, backspace will continue to delete characters in the previous input field.

If the device has an alphanumeric keypad that contains both numbers and letters on the same keys, this option will allow input until proper character has been typed at the end of a field without moving to the next field. The reason is that alphanumeric keypad uses backspace when switching character (for the character c, the keyboard will send the characters a+backspace+b+backspace+c

Bypass Right Adjust field check

Input fields that are defined as Right Adjust should be right adjusted with FieldExit, Flield+ or Field- and give an error if not.

Some emulators bypass this check and send the field without right adjusting. With this option checked, Glink will do the same.

Only scanner input allowed in selector pen field

Use this option to restrict input to scan data only. Glink can distinguish between scanner data and keyboard data if scanner data is not received as simulated keyboard input (keyboard wedge).

See Settings->Barcode reader setup for more information.