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You can decide how your terminal shows the colors and highlighting attributes that the host application assigns to the 3270 display's contents, including the status line. You can even use different color combinations, called color mappings, for each display session to help differentiate one from another.
The use of color mappings depends on whether your Solaris computer and your terminal support color. If they do, then you can use the Use Color check box in the Miscellaneous Options dialog to specify whether you want to use monochrome or color display for 3270 emulation; you must make this choice before beginning to customize the color mappings. If your computer and terminal do not support color, you can use only monochrome display.
When you use monochrome display, you can still specify different combinations of reverse video, underline, intense, and blinking terminal attributes to distinguish between different host colors.
The description of the dialogs used for color mapping in this section assumes you have a color monitor. If you have a monochrome monitor, then the procedure for remapping colors is the same, but you will obviously not have the choice of colors, only the choice of terminal attributes.
The Use Color option does not apply to the Motif interface, for which color is always available. However, the Motif interface does not apply any color mapping to the status line.
To begin customizing colors for display sessions, follow these steps:
From the Customize menu, choose Session Colors. The dialog box shown in Choose Session for Color Remapping Dialog Box, is displayed. Display sessions are listed by session number and long name.
To select a specific session, highlight the session and
choose <Zoom>. The dialog box shown
in Choose Colors for SESS
On the left side of the dialog box are the Host highlight attribute and the Feature (a particular host color or the status line) to be represented. On the right are the background and foreground colors available to represent the host attributes and features on your terminal. The way your terminal currently represents host attributes and features is shown in the list boxes and in the Sample column.
The following list describes each parameter in the Choose Colors for SESSnn dialog box:
Each attribute (Normal, Blink, Reverse, or Underline) corresponds to a highlighting character assigned to displayed data by the host. Each Feature except the status line can be modified by one of these four attributes. The status line is always normal and appears in the Feature list box only if Normal is the selected host highlight attribute.
One of the following features, which refer to 3270 display contents at the host:
Default text
Default intense text
Four base colors (base blue, base red, base green, and base white)
Seven extended colors (blue, red, pink, green, turquoise, yellow, and white)
Seven intense colors (blue, red, pink, green, turquoise, yellow, and white)
Status line
The word Sample
and its immediate background reflect
the foreground and background colors for the host feature to the left of
Sample,
as well as the host highlight attribute currently chosen.
As you change your terminal's representation of each host feature/attribute
combination, the sample column reflects the change immediately. Use the sample
column to check that the colors appear as expected, because some terminals
may not be able to distinguish between certain colors (for example, between
yellow and intense yellow or between gray and white background).
Mark this check box to cause the foreground content of the 3270 display to blink for a particular combination of host feature and host highlight attribute.
Instead of Enable screen blink,
this check box is called
Enable screen underline.
Mark this check box to cause the text on
the 3270 display to be displayed as underlined for a particular combination
of host feature and host highlight attribute.
This list box lists all the background colors you can display on your terminal. The color highlighted in this box is the color currently designated to represent the background for the combination of host highlight attribute and host feature currently selected.
This list box lists all the foreground colors you can display on your
terminal. (If you are using a monochrome display, the colors listed here depend
on the background color selected; for example, if you have selected
Choose <OK> to confirm your choices. Choose <Cancel> to abandon any changes you have made to the color mappings and retain existing settings. In addition, the following push buttons are available on the Choose Colors for SESSnn dialog box:
Choose <Default> to specify the 3270 emulation program's original color mapping for this session. For more information, see Using Default Color Mapping.
Choose <Copy> to use the color mapping from another session to define the color assignments in this session. For more information, see Copying Colors from Another Session. This push button is not selectable if you have only one display session.
To customize how your terminal uses color and highlighting characteristics to represent each combination of host feature and host highlight attribute, follow these steps:
Display the dialog box shown in Choose Colors Dialog Box.
Choose a host highlight attribute.
Choose a host feature.
Choose a background color and a foreground color to represent
the feature, and choose whether to use blinking foreground text (the
Enable screen blink
check box) or underlined text (the
Enable screen underline
check box). Blinking foreground text is available
only in the character-based version of the program (not in the Motif version),
and underlined text is available only in the Motif version.
Repeat Steps 3 and 4 for each host feature you want to customize.
Now repeat Steps 2 through 5 for the other host highlight attributes.
After determining your terminal's representation of all combinations of host highlight attributes and features, choose <OK> to confirm the choices, or <Cancel> to discard them. Either choice returns you to the Choose Session for Color Remapping dialog box
If you choose <OK>, and the foreground and background colors for a feature are the same, an error message is displayed. When you return to the dialog, the first color mapping that is in error is highlighted so that you can correct it.
After customizing colors for a session, you can select another session for color remapping, or choose <Done> to return to the main screen.
To use the default color mapping provided by the 3270 emulation program, choose <Default>from the Choose Colors for SESSnn dialog box.
A warning message will be displayed asking you to confirm that you wish to make this change. If you do not wish to reset the color mapping, choose <Cancel>.
To copy the color mapping from another session, use the following procedure:
In the Choose Colors for SESSnn dialog box, choose <Copy>. The dialog box shown in Copy Session Colors Dialog Box, is displayed.
From the list box, select a session whose color mapping you want to copy.
Choose <OK> or <Cancel>. The Choose Colors for SESS nn dialog box reappears. The color mapping is now the same as for the session you specified in Step 2.
Make any changes you like to the new color mapping, or leave it as copied.
Choose <OK> to accept the copied color map, with any subsequent modifications, or choose <Cancel> to return to the color map that was in effect when you opened the dialog box.
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