December 2001

New features surface for ScreenJet’s emulator

One solution supplier set a course for new business in the 3000 market just weeks after HP’s announcement, as ScreenJet Limited announced a raft of new features for its ScreenJet terminal emulator. The product remains available for free in a basic release for single user or personal use, and now costs between $400 and $2,000 per year for a fully supported and licensed version. Release 2.10 is being sold and supported by its developers, and users of prior versions can register at ScreenJet.com to have their support transferred from Millware.com, the former distributors and supporters of the software. Getting the new features of 2.10 involves paying for support, however.

New features include additional drop down list Engines which support KSAM files and MPE files, and a List Engine to support user-written Query database extracts. ScreenJet said that all list engines “have been improved to provide larger buffers so that more information can be processed into the lists.” The product now also includes support for .JPG and .GIF background images in addition to the existing bitmap files, and all three file types can now be used as backgrounds for screens. Another product, ScreenJet Designer, has had its Help re-written and incorporated into a Windows style help facility. New wrap style edit boxes allow full screen editing of text within applications, and there’s new function key display and usage options to keep a user from getting stuck when function keys are turned off on a screen. The full details on the new products are at the ScreenJet Web site, www.screenjet.com.


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