Conference csc32::consolemanager

18.0. "C3 bugs, feedback, questions, etc" by VINO::DBIGELOW (Innovate, Integrate, Evaporate) Thu Sep 24 1992 23:15

Regarding the C3 interface:
    
-   The console Manager Icon first appears large in th ewindow and then 
    resizes itself smaller to fit the window. What first appears is the
    upper corner of the icon.

-   When doing a show events from the C3 Icon, there is a message box with the 
    text "Unable to connect or console for host ConsoleManager No such
    file or directory". The least that could be done is to put a period between
    the sentences. This seems like an irrevelent message, because the event
    list box comes up correctly. 

-   Event list box comes up too small. Is is on the order of 20 columns wide.
    Something on the order of at least 80 seems applicable to read all the
    different fields. The same applys to the text window.

-   Multiple message boxes appear when double clicking on different events.
    Message also appears on DECterm window. Can I clear these events or mark
    them as 'seen'?

-   When starting a C3, a window is flashed and then disappears.
    
-   It updates then goes blank and then updates again. Is focus grabbed
    while this is happening? 

-   Data appears on the connect window and then disappears. If there is a 
    problem with the connection, then the screen just appears blank. 
    If I hit a CR then I get a message. How about putting the control 
    characters on the screen like most of the other connectivity tools.

-   No way to quiet the event bell on the C3 display. This will cause operators 
    to frown from using the C3 as we learned the hard way from VCS.

-   'Show events' text is unaligned on my 75 dpi screen. It looks like:

        System Name:          EMGEE
    Information:                Dave's Machine
    Console Link:               Lost
                                 ^
                                 |
                           SB text field

-   Why do we have a colon after the text?

-   The Icon picture is untrue of my system. I's a 5100, not a uVAXII

-   The Dismiss button is not centered under the Review Button.

-    No watch cursor when doing a connect to the C3 icon.

-    Control E for exit from a connect command is not a good choice. It is a 
     keyboard control character which puts the cursor at the end of the line,
     much link ^h put the cursor at the start of the line. 

-    No support for monochrome monitors. How will the different colors be
     represented on a b&w screen?

-    If the C3 window is too resized to a small window, then the 
     Icons will not appear, Only the labels.

-    If you resize the connect window, the connection hangs.

-    Scan profile name needed in Info box.

-    When connecting to a system, the window fills with  data then clears
     itself.

-    Using the 'Exit' window menu option does not unlock console. 
     Impossible then to reconnect (without having to manually unlock the 
     console).

-    Occassionally, no console data was available, just time stamps.

-    The whole workstation appears frozen for a period of time which the C3 
     is becoming active.

-    Multiple connects to the same system brings up another seperate window.
     It should just 'pop' the existing window to the top of the screen or
     perhaps uniconify. It also creates another child process.

Dave,

  Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming.

Cheers,
Phil