I have decided to finally do some much-needed work on AT_Telnet... it began last night. For those who don't know, AT_Telnet was originally developed by Tom Hunt in and around 2000 and I took it over about this time. It is a PC-based terminal client for accessing ATASCII BBSes on the internet from your PC. It is my primary terminal program.
I will be renaming the program AT_Connect - The ATASCII Terminal Client and upgrading the version to v3.oo. This change is about 85% complete as of right now. Telnet was never a part of this program... it was simply the name that was used back in 2000 when this began.
Swatted five minor bugs that have been around for 10 years or thereabouts.
Plan to address what I call the 1 major bug in the screen processing section of the code. Currently the Ctrl-Del key is not processed correctly. I have prevented it from shutting down the program by simply ignoring the key (or incoming char as the case may be) however, I do want to get this fixed. I may need some help.
Plan to update the 'Help' system. Also started on this last night.
Plan to get a better handle on the implicit changes to the system caused by the way the UAC system in newer versions of Windows interacts with the older VB6 programs..
At least one new major feature to be added... more on this later.
No plans to upgrade from vb6 to a newer version of VB. This cannot be done due to THE major component of AT_Connect no longer existing in VB.
What else??? I am open to suggestions.
Available at Zoom - Friday night 12/15/23
v3.12 -Build:602 - 12.14.23 (Xeraxes)
Added the AutoPause feature for slowing down the message displays on BBSes with no page length setting.
Added the Status Window for status information during connections. It displays the BBS name, URL and Port as well as the incoming character counts. It also has a provision for entering some text into the system log as a log entry.
Added a flag in the config page to enable / disable clearing the box when the 'Scrollback to Box' button is pressed.
Added session numbers for knowing how many ATC sessions you have experienced.
Added additional logging for some errors.
Added the ==== separator for the log session entries making the log a little easier to read.
Modified the 'View System Log' button to move the cursor to the end of the log when opening it.
General cleanup of logging...
Modified 'Look & Feel' of the Quoting and ChXbox systems as well as general cleanup of these systems.
Added the status bar value to the status field 'tooltiptext' property so if a status is longer than the status window can display, hovering the cursor over the status field will display the entire contents of the field in the tooltip.
Renamed the CHX1,2,3 files to _CHX1,2,3. Filename prefixed with an underscore to make them rise to the top of the files display.
Added the 'No Word Wrap' quoting modification for making the quotes look better on a Carina BBS system. Carina tends to modify the format of the messages even after they are entered and saved. This option helps with making the quotes a little better to view if you choose to use it. This feature also swatted the chr(13) - chr(10) display bug in the Carina quotes.
Changed the colors of the quote step indicator bar from Red to Green.
Added a 'Yes / No' query to the 'Clear System Log' function.
General Cleanup.
Bug fixed - Send to BBS function would crash ATC if not online.
Bug fixed - bug in Help file display code
Bug fixed - not really a bug but using the Prev (<<) and Next (>>) buttons in the BBS editor now forces a re-selection of the BBS in the combo box in order to better keep it all in sync.
Bug fixed - Swatted the Ctrl-M bug that has been in the program since 2000.
Fixed a problem with the Help file installation during setup.