Re: Java Confidence Was RE: cobol-programming

  • From: Mike Freeman <k7uij@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 09:20:39 -0700

I hate to be so dense, but ... what's SWT? Is that the "other" JAVA environment?

Mike Freeman
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On Jun 9, 2011, at 6:41, "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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