Attachmate Worldwide  |   Contact Us  |   NetIQ.com
Home » Support » Solution Library

Technical Notes

Retaining EXTRA! HotSpots and QuickFields After Window Becomes Inactive
Technical Note 2267
Last Reviewed 07-Dec-2007
Applies To
EXTRA! X-treme version 8.0 or higher
Summary

This technical note describes how to retain the graphical display of HotSpots and QuickFields after focus switches to another window. This information may be of particular interest to former users of IBM Personal Communications (PComm), Host On-Demand (HOD), and/or Screen Customizer products.

Background

EXTRA! X-treme supports HotSpots and QuickFields features to provide a graphical look-and-feel to elements of text-based host applications. When QuickFields is enabled, all enterable (unprotected) fields are displayed with white background for easy recognition of input areas.

Symptoms

By default, the graphical display of HotSpots and QuickFields becomes unrendered when the EXTRA! terminal session no longer has focus. (Focus is lost when the session is no longer the active window or frame, such as after clicking the Scratch Pad productivity tool or a different application window.)

Solution

Beginning in EXTRA! 9.0 Service Pack 1, you can change this behavior as follows:

  1. Open your session *.edp file in a text editor.
  2. In the [HotSpots Globals] section, add the following line:
PersistOnLostFocus=1
  1. Save the modified *.edp file and restart your session.
Related Technical Notes
2257 EXTRA! 9 Service Pack 2 (SP2): Fixes and Features (Release Notes)
2339 Configuring VBA Events for Host Screen Text in Reflection for IBM 2007
9970 Technical Notes for EXTRA!

Did this technical note answer your question?

Yes    No    Somewhat     Not sure yet

Additional comments about this tech note:

Need further help? For technical support, please contact Support.