Welcome WinComm user!  Hopefully you will take the time to look at all the demonstration Macros.  They are provided to give you an idea of the many capabilities of WinComm and to provide sample code that you might customize for your own use.

Synappsys is very interested in business and organizational use of WinComm for any "vertical" application that requires remote data inquiry and entry and file transfer.  To this end WinComm has been provided with a powerful macro language and several utilities to aid the macro programmer in writing these custom applications.

WDLGEDIT.EXE is a graphic dialog box editor that allows quick and simple creation of WinComm dialog boxes.  The WinComm macro language provides a large assortment of dialog box controls that will allow you create anything from a simple Yes No selection to a complex box that displays and/or allows editing of a text disk file.  The dialog box can also have its own context sensitive help!  The Graphics selection of the Tour will show you a small sample of the different types of dialog boxes that can be created as well as examples of a graphic menu system using Windows metafiles.  The source code for the Graphics macro is DLGDEMO1.WMS which can be opened in WIN3 NOTEPAD and examined.  You can change any dialog box by highlighting the source code from the DIALOGBOX to DEND statements in the text editor, copy the text to the Windows Clipboard, paste it into the Dialog Box Editor and make changes to it graphically.  The code can then be copied in the dialog box editor, pasted back in the text editor and recompiled to show the changes.

WCUTIL.EXE is another program that the macro programmer can use to simplify display of graphics in the WinComm window.  It provides a "mimic" WinComm display and allows display of bitmaps and metafiles and adjustment of the graphic mapping modes of the metafile.  When the programmer has determined the way the graphic should appear, the macro code that creates the graphic display can be copied from WCUTIL and pasted into the text editor.  WCUTIL is also used to define hot spots on the graphic and to "compile" custom context sensitive help for your macros.

KBDREMAP.EXE is the third utility program provided with WinComm which is used to change the codes that are transmitted when certain keyboard keys are pressed.  This is useful if the default mapping provided by the selected terminal emulation does not meet the requirements of the host system to which you will be connected.

You can see which macros are run when each Function Key is pressed in the Tour by opening the TOUR.WSF in the Session Editor and selecting the Function Key Option View, or by noting Macro-"NAME" on the Status Bar each time a Function Key is pressed.

If you have any questions or comments please give Synappsys a call.