I have decided to finally do some much-needed work on AT_Telnet... it began last night. For those who don't know, AT_Telnet was originally developed by Tom Hunt in and around 2000 and I took it over about this time. It is a PC-based terminal client for accessing ATASCII BBSes on the internet from your PC. It is my primary terminal program.
I will be renaming the program AT_Connect - The ATASCII Terminal Client and upgrading the version to v3.oo. This change is about 85% complete as of right now. Telnet was never a part of this program... it was simply the name that was used back in 2000 when this began.
Swatted five minor bugs that have been around for 10 years or thereabouts.
Plan to address what I call the 1 major bug in the screen processing section of the code. Currently the Ctrl-Del key is not processed correctly. I have prevented it from shutting down the program by simply ignoring the key (or incoming char as the case may be) however, I do want to get this fixed. I may need some help.
Plan to update the 'Help' system. Also started on this last night.
Plan to get a better handle on the implicit changes to the system caused by the way the UAC system in newer versions of Windows interacts with the older VB6 programs..
At least one new major feature to be added... more on this later.
No plans to upgrade from vb6 to a newer version of VB. This cannot be done due to THE major component of AT_Connect no longer existing in VB.
What else??? I am open to suggestions.
I actually got the Ctrl-Del and Ctrl-Ins working tonight on both the terminal and the ATEditor. Ctrl-Ins was already working in the terminal. How did I fix Ctrl_del? Pulled an old archive of AT_Telnet I and copied one 'PaintPicture' instruction to ATC_3. Somehow that instruction got messed up at some point in time and was causing AT_Telnet to crash which led to trapping and ignoring the error. The old code solved the problem... don't ask me how it got screwed up. My troubleshooting skills are not what they once were as evidenced by my Computer breakdown earlier this week... whew!