Controlling Client Access screen colours
Contrary to popular wisdom, its possible, and pleasant, to set your client Access screen colours to be, say Black on a white background - or to have a session with a red background when accessing a produciton box, and (blue's my favourite) a different colour for a development box.
The colour settings are stored on the PC in the *.ws file.
Has anyone tried distributing this to user's PCs' within the PC standard desktop management world and arrived at a best way of doing so?
Anyone experience of users with something other than green on black.
For interest, here's a black on white .ws file. for Ca 5.8 copy to desktop as 'white.ws'
[Profile]
ID=WS
Version=8
[CT]
trace=Y
[Telnet5250]
HostName=NBSDev
Security=CA400
SSLClientAuthentication=Y
AutoReconnect=Y
[Communication]
Link=telnet5250
Session=5250
[5250]
ScreenSize=27x132
HostCodePage=285-U
WorkStationID=+&COMPN*=
PrinterType=IBM3812
[Keyboard]
CuaKeyboard=2
Language=United-Kingdom(166)
IBMDefaultKeyboard=N
DefaultKeyboard=C:Program FilesIBMClient AccessEmulatorprivateAS400.KMP
[Colors]
ExtendedColorGreen=000000 FFFFFF
OtherScreenColor=FFFFFF
ExtendedColorBlue=7890F0 FFFFFF
ExtendedColorPink=FF00FF FFFFFF
ExtendedColorRed=F01818 FFFFFF
ExtendedColorTurquoise=56BBF1 FFFFFF
ExtendedColorYellow=93FC03 FFFFFF
OIAColorInformationIndicators=24D830
OIAColorBackground=606060
OtherRuleLine=F01818
OtherColumnSeparator=7890F0
BlinkColorOverride=Y
BlinkAttribute=FF00FF 000000
[Window]
SessFlags=38C62
ViewFlags=CF00
CaptionFormat=AA -
RuleLinePos=6 20
MFIcolor=Y
ColumnSeparator=N
[File]
SaveOnExit=N
[Edit]
FieldWrap=N
LineWrap=N
PasteToTrimmedArea=N
PasteStopAtProtectedLine=N
[LastExitView]
A=4 595 281 648 546 3 13 29 400 0 IBM3270— 285
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Answer Wiki:
I have four ICONS on my desktop which will start a CA session.
Each one has a different color scheme.
RED background is a PRODDUCTION Library List
Other schemes tell me what AS400 I am connected to.
I do not have a way to auto distribute, but I did a document on how to setup and passed that out.
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I also have 4 icons with different color schemas. I copies them to a server and put them in a “custom” folder. Then whenever i install, I just run this CMD. You could create a robocopy to run this if you need it globally.
copy “\servernameERP SoftwareClient Access ExpressCustom*.*” “c:Program FilesIBMClient AccessEmulatorPrivate”
I see the post dropped the slashes. But you get the idea. I put .ws and keyboard mapping in this folder.
Users ( and managers) are constantly bleating about ‘ green on black’ screens as being passe and old fashioned – yet a character mode input is still the quickest way of getting input into a computer, and competent design makes the panel easy to use and error free.
If we just got the world using a different colour scheme they’d think it was new – super, efficient….
So – does anyone have a user community who conventiionally use different colours?
Our ERP system allows order entry thru green screen, GUI, or web. But the full-time CSR’s usually prefer green screen because its faster. However, most have multiple green screen windows – up to 4 in 4 different color schemes. They like this because they can use “green” for US, blue for “Canada”, white for UK, gold for others and/or other lookups. Each user finds what they like, but this helps prevent the trying to enter a US order on the Canadian screen.
I use multiple colors for different LPARS. If I have gold screen, I know I am on the development LPAR.
Blue’s my favourite – developer stuff – restful
red for production – dont want to casually mess with stuff on there. .
No – I never managed to delete a major file in live, thinking it was test.. .
(though I have caused an unwanted ‘emergency poer off’ on a System 38 – oops )
its good and have learnt many things
I have green on black (traditional) for my development system(s) and I switch green to display as red and red to display as green for my production system(s). If I open a second session in development where I am running a test, I change green to some other non-standard color (usually mustard)
green screen = go ahead it’s development
red screen = stop and think, it’s production
mustard screen = caution running the test
I usually use the standard green/black just so I can notice differences, especially since customers tend to be standard.
Then I have a grey-background scheme that I use for high-authority sessions. I usually switch OIA colors on that scheme for different systems.
I also use the grey-background scheme for color screen-prints. The black background prints just suck up ink/toner.
Tom
when I need to do screen prints, I set black to appear as white and white to appear as black