Celestial Software

You're in luck!

I've been working on an alternative notification for disconnects in the latest beta. It uses on-screen messages rather than popups, which should make life a little easier for you.

Try the beta out and let me know what you think:

www.celestialsoftware.net/telnet/AbsoluteTelnet8.27RC29.exe



Brian

Thanks Brian. This is way better for me. Thank you so much for taking this one on.

I've downloaded and installed. I ran a test of a dozen screens or so. NO POPUPS! Way cool. What I observe (as I am sure you are aware) is my session shows an on-screen message "Remote Server Disconnected: Idle timeout exceeded" flashing in red.

So now after timeout (whatever that is) I am disconnected, it is indicated on-screen for that specific session, but it is not intrusive or annoying to deal with. I am happy with this solution.

Of note: I tend to color code the screens of all of my end-points based on the functional area I am working on. All of my screens maintain a black background but I differ my foreground colors. It serves me as a visual queue so that I don't inadvertently enter potentially dangerous commands accidently into the wrong systems. It is a system that works quite nicely for me.

Now, when the new on-screen message appears, it wipes that color scheme out when I timeout. In my test all of the screens I had opened were configured with a black background and a dark green foreground. When the "timeout" occurs, the appearance of that window for that session converts to “ANSI Defaults”. If I simply re-connect without closing the session file, the color scheme does not return to my settings, it stays with "ANSI Defaults". In the scheme of things not a big deal really but I find that I would prefer to now close that window and re-open to get my color scheme back as opposed to continuing on with the ANSI Defaults. This behavior only occurs when the timeout happens within AbsoluteTelnet, not when the end equipment times me out. When the end equipment times me out the colors remain as configured. I guess when AbsoluteTelnet times me out I get the ANSI Default behavior.

I don’t know if that was the intention or not, just thought you would like to know.

Thanks again for taking care of your users.

--Greg

Can you give me a snapshot of what that looks like (before and after). The intent is that only the disconnect text is show on red/black, but everything else should stay the same.

Brian

Never mind, I figured this one out last night. Here's the update:

www.celestialsoftware.net/telnet/AbsoluteTelnet8.27RC36.exe

Awesome. This is a fantastic fix for me. I am very pleased. I have no other issues - at all.

Do you think this feature will make the next release?

--Greg

Absolutely.