Status Bar

Hi -

You can customize the menu, toolbar or status bar using the Customize Menu item from the Tools menu. If this a menu that you wish to deploy company-wide, you probably should choose "application" for the menu scope. Then you can simply take your custom menu, which is saved in the ...\Program Files\Atwin\menu.ini file, and copy it to each user's ...\Atwin folder.

To add a status bar panel for the port number, open the menu customization tool (Tools->Customize Menu) and select "application", then click Continue. Click on the status bar in the node list in the left pane. Click the New button and choose Normal Panel. The new panel will be selected and its properties will be shown in the Tool Properties panel. All user-defined menu/toolbar/status bar items have ID's begining with 10001. The next available number will be used automatically, but you can change it to any unused value above 10000. Select a style and enter a default caption. You could enter "Port --" and select Fixed Width for the panel size, or enter "Port" and select Fit Contents for the panel size. Click OK and save the custom menu.

Finally, you need to write a small script to set the caption of your new status bar panel. The script is built as a string in a BASIC program and sent to AccuTerm for execution. Here is an example in Pick/BASIC:

PORT = 'Port ':SYSTEM(22) MNUID = 10001 SCR = 'ActiveSession.Menu(' : MNUID : ').Caption = "' : PORT : '"' PRINT CHAR(27) : CHAR(2) : 'P' : SCR : CHAR(13) :

If you want to initialize multiple panels, you can create a multi-line script using CHAR(25) between script lines. For example

SCR = SCR : CHAR(25) : 'ActiveSession ....

Thanks,

Pete