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A.06.31 Release Notes
This document covers fixes and enhancements which have been integrated
into the Eloquence A.06.31 GUI components on the Windows platform.
Contents of this document:
The following changes have been included with the 16 and 32-bit
dlgsrv on the Windows platform.
The on-line help browser now can be configured in the [DlgSrv]
section of your Eloquence client configuration file:
HelpDDEModule=netscape
For the 32bit dlgsrv32, this is the eloqcl.ini file located in the
etc subdirectory of your Eloquence installation, for example
C:/Programs/Hewlett-Packard/Eloquence/etc/eloqcl.ini.
For the 16bit dlgsrv, this is the eloq.ini file located in the
Windows directory, for example C:/Windows/eloq.ini.
The default value is "netscape" which is the internal module name
of the Netscape Navigator/Communicator. You can replace it with the
module name of any HTML viewer which is aware of the "WWW_OpenURL"
and "WWW_Activate" DDE topics.
For example, to use the MS Internet Explorer instead of the Netscape
browser, just specify:
HelpDDEModule=iexplore
Furthermore, you should specify an additional module path so the
MS Internet Explorer can be started in case it's not already running.
This is configured in the [Modules] section of the same
configuration file:
[modules]
iexplore="C:\Program Files\Plus!\Microsoft Internet\Iexplore.exe"
Replace this with the real location of the MS Internet Explorer
executable on your particular system.
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Setting a listbox's cy attribute to 0 resulted in a runtime error
if the listbox was empty.
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DLG SET ".focus" applied to a container object (dialog/window or
groupbox) now sets the focus to the first sensitive object inside the
container object.
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If an object does not specify its own .help attribute the dlgsrv
did not always fallback to the parent object's one.
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The following problems concerning on-line help DDE communications
have been fixed:
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"Module ... is not active and I don't know how to start it"
If this message is displayed although the on-line help browser has
started successfully, you can now configure an additional wait
interval which takes place immediately after the browser is launched
and before the first DDE transaction is initiated. This can be
specified in the [DlgSrv] section of your Eloquence client
configuration file:
HelpDDEWait=2500
The value is specified in milliseconds, thus 2500 is equivalent to
2.5 seconds.
Please note that for technical reasons the HelpDDEWait configuration
item has no effect with the 16bit dlgsrv. For the 32bit dlgsrv32 we
decided to set the wait interval to 2.5 seconds by default which has
proved to be appropriate in most cases, so normally it should not
be necessary to configure HelpDDEWait at all.
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"DDE server did not acknowledge"
If this message is displayed the internal DDE timeout has expired.
While this was formerly set internally to 10 seconds it can now
be configured in the [DlgSrv] section as well. Furthermore,
the default value has been increased to 15 seconds:
HelpDDETimeout=15000
The value is specified in milliseconds, thus 15000 is equivalent to
15 seconds.
For the 32bit dlgsrv32, the client configuration file is named
'eloqcl.ini' and is located in the etc subdirectory of your HP
Eloquence installation, for example
C:/Programs/Hewlett-Packard/Eloquence/etc/eloqcl.ini.
For the 16bit dlgsrv, it is named 'eloq.ini' and is located in the
Windows directory, for example C:/Windows/eloq.ini.
The following changes have been included with the 16 and 32-bit
runsrv on the Windows platform.
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runsrv(32) accepts the command line option
-port (or -PORT or /port or /PORT)
followed by a service name or port number. This causes runsrv(32) to
listen for incoming connections on a port different from the default
service configured in the [RunSrv] section of the eloq.ini/eloqcl.ini
configuration file.
This way, multiple instances of runsrv(32) can be run on the same system.
For example, in Citrix Metaframe or MS Terminal Server environments multiple
runsrv(32) instances can be run on the server, one for each user. To connect
a user's program with the appropriate runsrv(32) instance, the A.06.31
eloqcore allows to specify the port number in a DLG SET ".driver" statement:
DLG SET ".driver", "@hostname:port"
Such a multiple instance environment can be conveniently configured in the
Eloquence eloq.ini file. For details, please refer to the section "New
eloq.ini configuration file format" in the A.06.31
DLG driver release notes.
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The following problems concerning DDE communications have been fixed:
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"Module ... is not active and I don't know how to start it"
If this message is displayed although the DDE server application has
started successfully, you can now configure an additional wait
interval which takes place immediately after the DDE server application
is launched and before the first DDE transaction is initiated.
This can be specified in the [RunSrv] section of the eloqcl.ini
configuration file:
DDEWait=2500
The value is specified in milliseconds, thus 2500 is equivalent to
2.5 seconds.
Please note that for technical reasons the DDEWait configuration
item has no effect with the 16bit runsrv. For the 32bit runsrv32 we
decided to set the wait interval to 2.5 seconds by default which has
proved to be appropriate in most cases, so normally it should not
be necessary to configure DDEWait at all.
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"DDE server did not acknowledge"
To avoid this message the internal DDE timeout default value has been
increased to 15 seconds. Should this message persist you can change
this timeout from within Eloquence with a statement like this:
CALL DLL Run("RunSrv", hostname$, "DDE .TIMEOUT 30000", Errn, Msg$)
For details, please refer to the
A.06.20 release notes.
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32-bit runsrv32:
The runsrv32 accepts a new configuration option in the [RunSrv]
section of the eloqcl.ini configuration file:
TrayDoubleClick=1
The Default value is 0. If set to 1 the runsrv tray icon must be doubleclicked
to open the runsrv main window. If set to 0 a single click is sufficient
(equivalent to previous runsrv versions).
If multiple programs have icons located in the tray it is inconvenient if some
of them require single and others require double clicks. With this option, at
least runsrv's behavior can be configured.
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