Carnation Software
MacWise - Macintosh Terminal Emulation - telnet / serial for OS X - Wyse, Viewpoint, VT100, VT220

MacWise Version 11 History

5/13/2008

11.27

Feature - More VT220 keys supported - Insert, Del, Home and End.
The help key is used as the Insert key or you can use Option i.
(Help keys on some keyboards are labeled ins / help).

Note: the Page Up/Down keys in this group of keys were already supported by VT220.
Wyse 60 /370 emulation has always supported all of these keys.

Fix - After opening a new serial connection, the emulation window was not active until you clicked on it.

Fix - If preferences were set to "Mouse click sends column,row to host", then clicking the mouse was sending row 11 to the host instead of the actual row.

Fix - ESC ~a~ not working to run an Applescript under host control. You would get an error because the AppleScript folder could not be found.


5/06/2008

11.25

Feature / Fix - Sped up event timing to make keystrokes faster.
Auto key repeat is now faster.

Fix - When the host switched to 132 column mode, it was possible that text would not appear on the screen to the right of the 80th column in some rare cases.

Fix - When you switch to 24 point window, the 132 column font will now change to 12 automatically, Also when you switch to 16 point window, it will change 132 column font to 9 automatically.

Fix - Now supports Origin Mode for VT100 / VT220

Fix - Allow Control O to be used with telnet when the "Use TC Shell" option is disabled.

Fix - Possible array bounds error if textwrap was turned off.


4/25/2008

11.21

Fix - VT100 / VT220 emulation. When capturing text to a file or the clipboard or printing, it could be possible to output a blank line if the line was longer than the standard width and textwrap was off. The line of text would appear on the screen but not in the text output to the file, clipboard or printer. This problem was only in MacWise versions 11.19 and 11.2
Since this problem could be intermittent depending on line lengths and the status of textwrap, it is highly recommended that you upgrade to MacWise 11.21 or later if you are currently running 11.19 or 11.2 and are using VT100 or VT220 emulation.

Fix - If you selected SCO ANSI emulation, the Window Menu would have a checkmark on Standard Window as well as the actual window size you were using.


4/21/2008

11.2

Fix - VT100 / VT220 top and bottom margin problems.
Now works correctly with DEC VMS ev Editor.

Fix - Allow host to enable and disable textwrap for VT100 / VT220


4/11/2008

11.16

Feature - Added “Use SLnet options with Kermit” to the Preferences window.
This lets you use Kermit to log into hosts that are using Seattle Lab's SLnet telnet server. This option should not be enabled if your host is not using SLnet.
Kermit file transfers may not start if this option is set incorrectly.

Feature - Added ? help icon in the Preferences Window. When you click on this icon, you get a help window explaining all of the preferences options.

Fix - If you double clicked on a function key and changed the title, the change would not be remembered. This problem was introduced in version 11.15


4/09/2008

11.15

Fix - VT100 arrow keys were not working in emacs editor. It uses Set Mode arrow keys.

Fix - Could not send Control L or Control K from the keyboard.


4/04/2008

11.14

Feature - Arrow Keys can now be programmed with multiple control and escape sequences.

Fix - If using Command [ or ] to switch windows and you did it too fast, the check mark in the window menu would end up on the wrong window item and it would not allow you to switch windows until you clicked on one to select it.

Fix - Left arrow could not be programmed with Viewpoint Emulation.

Fix - VT100 / VT220 arrow keys.


4/02/2008

11.12

Feature - Programmable Arrow Keys.
You can now program each arrow key with your own control or escape sequence.
Some host computers are programmed to use non-standard control codes for the arrow keys. Now you can accommodate those hosts by entering the code that the host wants to use for each arrow key.

Fix - The scroll back buffer is now cleared when you change window sizes using the Window Menu. Previous versions would have an incorrect scrollback buffer when you switched window sizes.

Fix - If you quit MacWise while a dialog box was open, the next time you ran MacWise, the emulation window would be the size of the dialog box and the background color would change to white.

Fix - Connection Scripts were not working with Kermit because it has a lot more messages during login which was exceeding the 2000 character limit for the "Wait For Text" . Changed to 10000. This could have also been a problem when verbose mode was enabled.

Fix / Feature - When Kermit data transfers are done, MacWise now presents a dialog box telling you the data transfer is done and the file is in your kermit_transfers folder. It now also opens the folder for you automatically when the transfer is done.

Fix - If you clicked away from a dialog window or clicked on the ? icon, and then clicked back on the dialog box, you could not click on any button to place text in an edit field because the dialog box was no longer the output window. Also, the dialog box could become transparent.


3/26/2008

11.1

Fix - Copy and paste was not working from the Edit Menu when dialog boxes were open.

Fix - If Caps Lock enabled in the Emulate Menu, then change to lower case if shift key down or caps lock key down.

Fix - Lassoing a section of text on the screen was not working if you dragged the mouse from lower right to upper left. Also, the starting point of the drag is now accurate.

Fix - Installer now warns you if MacWise is running and must quit before new version of MacWise is run.


3/21/2008

11.09

Fix - International dialog box was not letting you select any foreign languages.

Fix - Shifted function keys from the keyboard were not working on some Macs.

Fix - Could not turn capture on and off with keyboard command C.


3/18/2008

11.08

Feature - SCO ANSI function key set is now included in the fkeys folder.

Fix - Function keys were still not working with some Macs.

Fix - If MacWise was not running and you double-clicked on a settings file, It would try to use International as the settings file. Since International is not a settings file, the settings would become corrupted.

Fix - Phone dialer settings files were not working when double clicked on them.

Fix - Typing a P was sending a Control P also. Problem introduced in version 11.06


3/15/2008

11.06

Fix - Function keys would not work on some Macs.
See the support page for more information about function keys.

Fix - Double clicking or dragging a settings file was not loading the correct settings.

Fix - Could not uncheck Backspace = Delete if you checked it.

Fix - Scroll bar was getting disabled if you hid MacWise and then brought it back active.


3/08/2008

11.04

Page up / Down keys were causing a crash.

Printing multiple pages was printing garbage or left over text from earlier in the document on the last page. Reverted back to the 10.9 printing routine for now.

Scroll commands from the host were scrolling in the wrong direction.

If you had Print Screen as Graphic selected in Printer Setup, you would crash when you printed the screen.

Selecting Fkey Sets... from the Emulate Menu was disabling the scroll bar.


3/02/2008

11.0

Universal version of MacWise runs natively on Intel and Power PC Macs. Previous versions ran under Rosetta on Intel Macs. This version is much faster.

New Features:

SPEED! Runs natively on Intel and PPC Macs. No more Rosetta. This was accomplished by converting the entire MacWise project from Basic to C.
Added an option to enable or disable raw Unix mode for telnet, secure shell and the Mac Unix shell. This provides more compatibility options for connecting to host computers via the Mac Unix shell. Turning off this option may let you log into hosts that would not respond to keystrokes.
Added a "?" icon to several dialog boxes, which links to a "Help" pop-up, and added "Help" to many dialog box items, which appears when you hover the mouse over the text.
Cleaned up the MacWise 11 folder by creating more folders and moving all help files inside.
Connection Scripts... is located under the Connection Menu now instead of the File Menu.
The standard Apple installer is now used.
 


By Rich Love

Special thanks to Robert Purves, Brian Stevens, Bernie and other members of the FBtoC team who made it possible for me to convert MacWise from FutureBasic to a universal Carbon C application with their free FBtoC software as well as their great support.
This was a seven-month long project.

Fixes:

Fix - None of the document icons were working in Leopard.
Now, the Phone icon, QuickDial icon, Fkey icon and Settings icons work.

Fix - Mouse Click Delimiter window was returning back to emulation window when closed. Now returns back to preferences window, as it should.

 

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