Re: Java Confidence Was RE: cobol-programming

I'm getting used to Java and finally understanding how things work, 
including SWT. The learning curve for SWT is so steep it is more like a 
cliff with an overhang. That said, the complexity of SWT is justified, 
and it is truly cross-platform. I hope to have a new release of 
BrailleBlaster, which uses SWT, out soon.

John

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:47:27AM -0400, James Homme wrote:
> Hi Suzie,
> Someday, you and I will have a conversation and we'll be laughing at these 
> days. Those will be the good new days.
> 
> Jim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stanzel, Susan - 
> Kansas City, MO
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 7:51 AM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: cobol-programming
> 
> Another thing I had to do was to set the window in JAWS, otherwise the time 
> continually got reported. I hate to say this, but I think I wish I could go 
> back to those days when I really knew what I was doing. I am getting the hang 
> of this Java stuff, however, I can't say it is fun.
> 
> Susie Stanzel
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Homme, James
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 5:57 AM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: cobol-programming
> 
> Hi,
> No. The mainframe is just a terminal window. There are no real controls that 
> get communicated to JAWS. My memory of the scripts I saw ages ago tells me 
> that they are totally based on screen coordinates. I remember from my 
> mainframe days that you would use the tab key to go from field to field, and 
> it stopped on some stuff at the top of the window like a command line, and 
> another field. The next tab stop was the first line number of the code part 
> of the window. The next was column 7, where all comments must start in Cobol. 
> Then, from there to the bottom of the screen, you would have tab stops at the 
> beginnings of lines and the comment areas. Instead of reading the line 
> numbers as you moved down through lines of code, the scripts figured out 
> where column 7 was and read from there to the right. The beginnings of the 
> fields had ==> by default, so the scripts could do some invisible cursor 
> magic and find that stuff. They could also grab the row and column info from 
> the status line at the bottom of the window to make sure they knew what to 
> read. 
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of RicksPlace
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 4:45 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: cobol-programming
> 
> Hi: When you work on a terminal or emulator using something like COBOL and 
> CICS do you know if there is a DOM on the Terminal machine. In other words, 
> I might have my pc running some piece of software to make it attachable as a 
> 3270 to a mainframe. I guess that would be the emulator software. Then there 
> is the software to link the emulator, my home computer, to the mainframe. On 
> my home computer running as the 3270 terminal would there be a DOM I could 
> script to make it more accessible?
> I am wondering if I could wire up my home computer to a MainFrame and script 
> the mashup somehow using WindowEyes to be accessible and fast to use.
> Rick USA
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Homme, James" <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 3:41 PM
> Subject: RE: cobol-programming
> 
> 
> Hi,
> Yes, but it matters which terminal emulator you are using, and if you can 
> get your hands on a set of scripts that help you work with the environment, 
> that would even be better. There used to be someone named Glen Sepke who had 
> an excellent set of scripts that work with those environments. The biggest 
> thing, though is the environment. The scripts do make you much more 
> efficient. Once yyou get there, Cobol is all text.
> 
> Jim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gomal Tao
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 2:19 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: cobol-programming
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible to do programming in a IBM mainframe environment using
> jaws12? The language is cobol.
> 
> 
> /Gabriel
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