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SetBackgroundImage Is Ignored

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Set a background image in TinyTERM using CScript:

te.SetBackgroundImage("file.jpg",0);

The display does not change, though the command reports as running successfully.

CR 889

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Session Numbers Don’t Update Correctly

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Open multiple sessions in a single TinyTERM window, at least three. Check the session number for each with this command:

te.displaynl(_str(IsSess(CSESS)));

They will be numbered in sequence left to right, starting with session 0.

Now close session 0, the one at the left. The remaining sessions will update their index numbers. The leftmost, which used to be 1, is now 0.

Click on the tab for session 0 to make it active. Then open another session. It opens as the leftmost session, pushing the active session’s tab to the right, but indexes to be the highest-numbered session. So the second session is 0, not 1.

Make that leftmost session active again, and open another session. It will open immediately to the right of the current session, leaving it at the far left. The new session will be the highest numbered. This makes the third tab session 0.

While this does not affect TinyTERM’s basic functionality, scripts that look for specific session numbers don’t find them in the correct place.

CR 878

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LOGFILE Requires Argument

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

In the description of the LOGFILE command, the TERM for UNIX manual states that the OVERWRITE option is optional, and in its absence APPEND will be assumed. This is incorrect. The LOGFILE command requires that APPEND, OVERWRITE, FLUSH, ON or BINARY be specified.

CR 866

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False Reference to TECTRL.HLP

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

When using CenTE.ocx in a custom application, pressing F1 in the control will normally bring up the help file. The file name auto-generated by the OCX is TECTRL.HLP, which does not exist. Documentation for the TE control is actually in the TinyTERM Programmers Reference Manual.

CR 857

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TERM Script Language Training Course

Monday, May 7th, 2007

In 1998 Century Software, Inc., developed an internal training course for TERM Script Language (TSL), as implemented in TinyTERM Application Developer 3.3. That is now available for download as a zip file. This complements the PDF TSL documentation and the TinyTERM 3.3 PDF documentation.

When uncompressed, several subdirectories will be created. The documents are all in Microsoft Office formats, except for a few text files.

Please be aware that the DDE course is not complete. Only an example and a lab exercise were ever completed for that section.

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Excel Can’t Find DDE Client

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

When using Excel to access TinyTERM data via DDE, it returns an error window:

Remote data not accessible.

To access this data Excel needs to start another application. Some legitimate applications on your computer could be used maliciously to spread viruses or damage your computer. Only click Yes if you trust the source of this workbook and you want to let the workbook start the application.

Start application ‘tt.exe’?

TinyTERM shows no attempted access when this happens. Excel shows no other errors.

Extensive testing shows that Microsoft Excel won’t communicate with most DDE servers. The only reliable DDE connections were made with other Microsoft Office applications.

CR 820

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GetPath() Returns the First Argument

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

The CScript command GetPath() always returns the file name its given, rather than the path to the file as documented. The sType argument does not affect this.

CR 818

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Incorrect DDE_Enable(); Documentation

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

The DDE_Enable() documentation states that the command takes a Boolean argument. If you give it one, you get a “too many arguments” error.

DDE_Enable() actually takes no arguments at all. This means that once enabled in TinyTERM 4.x, DDE cannot be disabled.

CR 796, documented in TinyTERM 4.7.1

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Incorrect TE.SetRGBEntry() Documentation

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

The documentation for te.SetRGBEntry() says it uses the same arguments as te.GetBGColor(). This is incorrect. There’s no “default” color to set, so the numbers are shifted down by one. This means black is 0 instead of 1, light white is 15 instead of 16, etc.

CR 793, fixed in TinyTERM 4.7.1

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Error (410) AT Command Valid Inside DLGOPEN Windows Only

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

This error comes from translated TSL scripts. The script will typically run correctly once, then generate this error on subsequent tries. Closing and reopening TinyTERM is the only workaround.

problem can be traced to the tsl_atobjdone() command. For example, this line caused the problem in one customer’s script:

tsl_atobjdone(111,9,5,5,250,200,(0)|16385,””,””,0,0,-1,”chosen”, “”);

Everything before this point executed correctly. Every tsl_ command after this one gave the above error, followed by a “Subscript out of bounds” message.

CR 784

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