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Introduction

TbredComm is Thoroughbred’s terminal emulation product designed specifically to support and enhance Thoroughbred applications for both a character interface as well as the VIP graphical interface (GUI). TbredComm provides TCP/IP and serial communications for local, remote, and Internet connections. It supports any Thoroughbred-based UNIX, Linux, and Windows Telnet Server-based application.

TbredComm is designed specifically for Thoroughbred development environments, providing not only the standard features of an emulator but also functionality specific to Thoroughbred products.

  • Support for 24 function keys
  • Copy and Paste across applications
  • Scrolling
  • Slave Printing
  • Print Screen
  • Font Selections
  • AutoLogon configurations and an AutoLogon scripting language.
  • Various TCP/IP protocols including raw, telnet and SSH.
  • Dictionary-IV color settings
  • Mouse aware capabilities for your 3GL applications
  • Mouse aware capabilities for your character-based Dictionary-IV and OPENworkshop applications.
  • The ability to open and execute files located on a windows workstation from your application code. If a file can be opened or launched from the Windows Run dialog, it can be opened by your application code using TbredComm.
  • Provides 132-column support using the Basic wide-screen mnemonic. Requires Basic 8.5.0 for the correct terminal table. For more information on Basic mnemonics, please refer the the Thoroughbred Basic Developer Guide.
  • Record and playback keyboard and mouse input.
  • Screen scraping to read from a screen and sockets to write to the screen.

Emulation uses the standard Thoroughbred terminal table definition: TBREDCON. The TBREDCON terminal table has been designed specifically for TbredComm, please use this table to ensure proper emulation.

Many of the TbredComm options are managed in the WorkStation Manager. For more information see the WorkStation Manager manual (TbredComm, TbredComm AutoLogon , and Mouse Controls tabs). Below are some of these options:

  • Windows Close
  • Windows Maximize
  • Slave Printing Dialog
  • Queue Size
  • Highlight Color
  • Overflow Color
  • Terminal Font
  • AutoLogon Configurations
  • Mouse Control Settings

From the TbredComm Reference, version 8.9.1. Open this page in the PDF