Eloquence A.05.00 Release Notes

Eloquence A.05.00 Release Notes


Driver Reference


This chapter describes the drivers, provided with Eloquence A.05.00:


Motif Driver


motif.drv is the Eloquence dialog driver for the Motif GUI. It must be installed in the directory /usr/eloquence/dm.

Starting the Motif driver


To start the motif driver from within Eloquence, you have to give the following command: 
 DLG SET ".driver","motif"

This will redirect output to your display as defined in the DISPLAY environment variable. If the DISPLAY environment variable is not set or if you want to output to a different display you have to specify the display address in the driver argument.
motif.drv will use the DISPLAY environment variable to locate the screen to output to. You may specify a (different) output display using the -display argument: 
 DLG SET ".driver","motif -display host:0"

To specify additional arguments for motif driver, you may specify: 
 DLG SET ".driver","motif -IDMtracefile trace"

For a list of valid commandline arguments, please refer to the ISA Dialog Manager documentation.
The last driver argument (if present) will be considered the name of a defaults file used by the driver instead of the default one.
For example: 
 DLG SET ".driver","motif -display host:0 /usr/eloquence/dm/defaults.eq"

Example above will specify a defaults file for the motif driver in addition to the display argument.


Alpha Driver


alpha.drv is the Eloquence dialog driver for Alpha Windows. It must be installed in the directory /usr/eloquence/dm.
Note To start the alpha driver, you need to purchase the libIDMaw.sl shared library, which is not delivered with Eloquence. It must be purcharsed separatly.
It you don't have this shared library, you are not able to use the alpha dialog driver.


Starting the alpha driver


The following terminal types are supported:
  • hpterm, xterm
  • [hp]2392
  • [hp]70092, [hp]70094, [hp]70096, [hp]70098
  • vt100, vt200, vt300, vt220, vt320
    The terminal type must be defined either using the AWIN or TERM environment variable.
    To start the alpha driver from within Eloquence, you have to give the following command: 
     DLG SET ".driver","alpha"

    This will redirect output to your terminal (/dev/tty).
    To specify a different output display you may specify: 
     DLG SET ".driver","alpha -display /dev/tty1p1"

    To specify additional arguments for the alpha driver, you may specify: 
     DLG SET ".driver","alpha -IDMtracefile trace"

    For a list of valid commandline arguments, please refer to the ISA Dialog Manager documentation.
    The last driver argument (if present) will be considered the name of a defaults file used by the driver instead of the default one.
    For example: 
     DLG SET ".driver","alpha /usr/eloquence/dm/defaults.eq"

    Example above will specify a defaults file.


    Network Driver


    The Eloquence client/server network driver is implemented for the MS Windows GUI.

    Starting the driver


    To start the network driver from within Eloquence, you have to give the following command: 
     DLG SET ".driver","@hostname"

    where hostname is the name of the system, where the user interface (dialog server) should run.
    Note Hostname must be defined in your /etc/hosts file. You may also use the IP address instead of the host name.

    Additional driver arguments must be placed in the eloq.ini configuration file. Please refer to chapter ELOQ.INI File on the PC Platform for further reference.

    Network driver startup


    There are two ways, how the network driver is started:
    Last update: 95/11/08