TN5250j Changelog

What's new in TN5250j 0.7.3

May 21, 2013
  • FIX: Start Tn5250j with views from last time running

New in TN5250j 0.7.2 (May 10, 2013)

  • FIX: NPE when 'emul.startLastView' is set but 'emul.view' is empty

New in TN5250j 0.7.1 (Feb 22, 2013)

  • FIX: Initial default key bindung was broken

New in TN5250j 0.7.0 (Jan 22, 2013)

  • ADD: Support for detecting reverse fields
  • FIX: Built in code page support for Hebrew (CP424)
  • FIX: Wrong keyboard mapping for CCSID 870-pl and 870-sk
  • FIX: Reworked tab close & session close, now unified handling on all events
  • FIX: Charset for CCSID 1141
  • FIX: Updated JarBundler and fixed tnicon.icns
  • FIX: bug id:3469004 (Scrolling Problem)
  • FIX: Updated IzPack installation
  • CHG: New default option use Enter instead of Ctrl key (See feature request ID:3161670 and poll on mailing list in 01/2011)
  • CHG: New default option use 'mouse wheel: send page up/down'
  • CHG: New default option 'confirm signon screen before close'
  • CHG: Simplified internal mouse wheel scroll implementation, discarded older JRE support (older than 1.4.2)
  • CHG: When selecting areas with mouse, always start a new rectangle
  • CHG: Internal code page conversions (charset mappings) re-factored
  • DEL: Dropped internal source code for older JRE support (older than 1.4.2)
  • DEL: Finally dropped broken MDI implementation

New in TN5250j 0.6.3 (Jan 19, 2013)

  • ADD: center connect dialog on top of main frame/window
  • FIX: bug id:3292459 (Reload macros file on launch)
  • FIX: bug id:3205299 (email addresses prefixed with "mailto:" are not considered as hotspots)
  • FIX: bug id:3179868 (Text and fields are not displayed)
  • FIX: bug id:3161636 (System Name not in window title bar anymore)
  • FIX: bug id:3160345 (Default value of column separator looks strange)
  • FIX: bug id:3158911 (command line switch -s not working any more)
  • FIX: bug id:3158902 (settings folder in user's home directory is not created)
  • FIX: bug id:3155293 (hangs when called with explicit host name)

New in TN5250j 0.6.2 (Jan 19, 2013)

  • ADD: Saving last connected session at user's preference store, preselecting
  • last selected session on startup
  • ADD: Sessions table, sorting by session name ignoring case
  • ADD: Sessions table, sorting by host/ip is possible
  • ADD: Screen export: concat a '.txt' to the exported file name, if no extension
  • was given
  • ADD: Screen export: set the file filter '*.txt' as default
  • ADD: New icon set (sf-patchid: 2110159)
  • ADD: About dialog/tab
  • ADD: Saving last selected session in user's system preferences
  • ADD: Send keyboard type, codepage and charset to configure display device
  • correct CCSID)
  • ADD: feature request "Confirm on tab close" (feature request id: 2714023
  • 3085825), contributor: Craig Duncan (duncan3dc)
  • FIX: IndexOutOfBoundsException, when trying to reorder a single tab
  • FIX: NullPointerExceptions when trying to transmit no file to/from AS400
  • FIX: ClassCastException when using MDI mode (sf-patchid: 2555604)
  • FIX: SSL connecting problem since Java5 (sf-patchid: 2555362)
  • FIX: NPE when using console logger
  • FIX: Codepage converter 1147, 1148, 870, 871, 1025, 1026, 1112
  • FIX: Dialog for SysReq is not centered within the main window
  • sf-bugid: 2842807)
  • FIX: Instantiating Inflater/Deflater causes OutOfMemoryError
  • finalizers not called promptly enough (JVM bug 4797189)
  • CHG: Update log4j-1.2.15
  • CHG: Renamed the applet to "org.tn5250j.My5250Applet" to avoid confusing
  • with 'Application'
  • CHG: Reworked some codepages (277,280,284,285,297,500)
  • CHG: lot of internal code reworked

New in TN5250j 0.6.0 (Jan 19, 2013)

  • New release with a whole lot enhancements. Do not remember them all
  • read the Readme.txt file for more information
  • Fixed some field exit problems.
  • Well we have not kept this up to date at all. Hopefully we can catch it up to date from now on.
  • Fixed the bounding area.
  • Added kunstoff look and feel
  • Added access to functions/operations with password access
  • Added delete macros functionality - Right click on the macro
  • Fixed up some of the panels
  • Fixed a lot of problems in E-mail
  • Added new options to e-mail functions
  • New output to image .png
  • New access to just send quick message with file attachment
  • Send screen image via e-mail
  • Added new options to define the margins for the Print Screen function.
  • Added auto login support
  • New splash screen
  • Added blinking cursor. Beta code and may leave traces
  • Added a new keep alive function to fix some network disconnect
  • problems.