Status Bar
Custom Configuration
WIRE supports custom configuration settings that can be used to customize the user’s experience. Click the toolbox icon in the status bar to display the custom settings dialog.
Custom Settings dialog box
General Tab
- Slide-Out Menu Location – This setting controls whether the menus slide out from a tab on the left hand side or if they drop down from the top of the screen.
- Top
- Left
- Keyboard Emulation – Controls whether the system should use keyboard emulation which resembles that of a 3270 emulator or if it should obey standard Windows keyboard functions.
- 3270
- Windows
Differences between 3270 and Windows modes:
Using left arrow to navigate through text boxes
3270 - cursor moves to end of data in text box.
Windows - all data in the text box gets highlighted.
Using right arrow to navigate through text boxes
3270 - cursor moves to front of data in text box.
Windows - all data in the text box gets highlighted.
Backspace button
3270 - cursor moves left one character at a time.
Windows - cursor moves left one character at a time as it deletes those characters.
Default Insert/Overwrite mode
3270 - default is overwrite mode.
Windows - default is Insert mode.
3270 Emulation Mode and Windows Mode
Ctrl + E - Erase EOF : Erase all characters from cursor position to end of field (unprotected field only)
Ctrl + T - Erase Input : Erase all data in any unprotected fields on the screen
Ctrl + Shift + P : Print (should function same as Ctrl + P)
Ctrl + Left : Jump left from one word to the next (unprotected field only)
Ctrl + Right : Jump right from one word to the next (unprotected field only)
3270 Emulation Mode Only
Ctrl + Backspace : Backspace delete
- Valid Value Auto-Dropdown – Controls whether system will automatically drop down the list of possible values as the user types into a field tied to valid values.
- Disabled (Default)
- Enabled
- Printing
- Autoprint – If checked, WIRE will automatically send the screen shot to the printer if the user clicks the print button
- Use Default Printer – If checked, WIRE will use the default printer setup in Windows
- Page Header – An optional page header that displays on each printed page
Display Options Tab
- Underline Protected Fields – indicates location of unprotected fields by underlining the field
- Colors
- Standard Theme – The default theme that comes with WIRE (blue background)
- Custom Colors – Allows the user to control the colors of various types of text on the screen.
Note that custom colors is not available in the Classic Display mode of WIRE
- Background – the screen background
- Menus – the color of the menus
- Protected – Fields defined as Protected
- Label – this is a field that has been defined in the data dictionary as a label field
- Text – Normal Intensity
- Highlighted – High Intensity Text
- Unprotected – Fields defined as unprotected (editable)
- Background – the color of the background of the text box
- Text – the color of the editable text
- Valid Value – the color of the underline if the field is setup in the data dictionary as a valid value
- Unprotected-Selected – Field that has the cursor in it (currently has focus)
- Background – the color of the background of the text box
- Text – the color of the editable text
- Underline - Color of the underline of the field
- Text-Case
- Choose to display the text as:
- Mixed Case
- UPPER CASE
- lower case
- Choose to display the text as:
- Enable Extended Attributes – when checked, this enables the display of special formatting used on the mainframe in WIRE:
- Colored text
- Underlined text
- Reverse background and foreground colors
- Blinking text
Keyboard tab
The keyboard tab contains details on Hotkey combinations. WIRE provides the ability to remap many of the system functions such as the PF keys, clear key, enter key, etc. Keyboard mapping settings are stored individually for each user and will be carried over between PCs as long as the user logs in with their network id.
In the "Display" dropdown, System settings are system hotkeys which cannot be changed. Customs settings are those that the users can set up themselves.
To configure custom settings, click the link under the "HotKey" column. A dialog window will display that allows the user to change the keyboard mapping:
Place the cursor in the hotkey field and press the key(s) that you would like to use for this keyboard function. After pressing “Save” the system will save the mapping and it will become available immediately.
System defaults:
| Goto next field | key=TAB |
| Goto previous field | key=SHIFT-TAB |
| Move cursor left | key=LEFT |
| Move cursor up | key=UP |
| Move cursor right | key=RIGHT |
| Move cursor down | key=DOWN |
| Copy selected text | key=CTRL-C |
| Paste text | key=CTRL-V |
| Goto next line | key=+ |
| Write + | key=SHIFT-+ |
| Goto previous Field | key=CTRL-LEFT |
| Goto next field | key=CTRL-RIGHT |
| Goto first field | key=HOME |
| Text Editing | key=SHIFT-LEFT |
| Text Editing | key=SHIFT-RIGHT |
| Text Editing | key=SHIFT-HOME |
| Text Editing | key=END |
| Text Editing | key=SHIFT-END |
| Text Editing | key=INSERT |
| Text Editing | key=SHIFT-INSERT |
| Text Editing | key=DELETE |
| Text Editing | key=SHIFT-DELETE |
| Browser Refresh | key=CTRL-F5 |
| Move left | key=BACKSPACE |
| Move left | key=CTRL-BACKSPACE |
| Cut selected text | key=CTRL-X |
| Print screen | key=CTRL-P |
| Print screen | key=CTRL-SHIFT-P |
| Show Developer Console | key=CTRL-SHIFT-D |
| Jump to recent Top Item | key=ALT-T |
| Jump to recent Claim | key=ALT-C |
| Jump to recent Member | key=ALT-M |
| Jump to recent Provider | key=ALT-P |
| Jump to recent Broker | key=ALT-B |
| Jump to recent Emp Group | key=ALT-G |
Example custom settings:
| Submit using PF1 | key=F1 |
| Submit using PF2 | key=F2 |
| Submit using PF3 | key=F3 |
| Submit using PF4 | key=F4 |
| Submit using PF5 | key=F5 |
| Submit using PF6 | key=F6 |
| Submit using PF7 | key=F7 |
| Submit using PF8 | key=F8 |
| Submit using PF9 | key=F9 |
| Submit using PF10 | key=F10 |
| Submit using PF11 | key=F11 |
| Submit using PF12 | key=F12 |
| Submit using PF13 | key=SHIFT-F1 |
| Submit using PF14 | key=SHIFT-F2 |
| Submit using PF15 | key=SHIFT-F3 |
| Submit using PF16 | key=SHIFT-F4 |
| Submit using PF17 | key=SHIFT-F5 |
| Submit using PF18 | key=SHIFT-F6 |
| Submit using PF19 | key=SHIFT-F7 |
| Submit using PF20 | key=SHIFT-F8 |
| Submit using PF21 | key=SHIFT-F9 |
| Submit using PF22 | key=SHIFT-F10 |
| Submit using PF23 | key=SHIFT-F11 |
| Submit using PF24 | key=SHIFT-F12 |
| Submit using Clear | key=CTRL-SHIFT-Z |
| Submit using Enter | key=ENTER |
| Submit using CLRP | key=CLRP |
| Submit using MSRE | key=MSRE |
| Submit using PA1 | key=PA1 |
| Submit using PA2 | key=PA2 |
| Submit using PA3 | key=PA3 |
| Submit using PEN | key=PEN |
| Submit using OPID | key=OPID |
| Submit using STRF | key=STRF |
| Submit using TRIG | key=TRIG |
| Clear to end of field | key=CTRL-E |
| Erase all fields | key=CTRL-T |
Auto Zoom
Zooms WIRE to fill the screen.
Auto zoom disabled:
Auto zoom enabled:
Mainframe Screen Display Modes
The mainframe screen can be displayed in one of three modes (follow link for more details):
To toggle between modes, click the Display Mode icon on the status bar:
The current mode is displayed to the right of the toggle icon:
