Tom Brandt wrote:
>
> At 11:53 PM 02/24/00 -0500, Wirt Atmar wrote:
> >Another attribute we've been actively working on is having QCTerm being
> >launched as a web browser's helper application. This too now works, although
> >we're not ready to release it. When we do, you will be able to click on a web
> >hyperlink (either text- or graphically-based), autolaunch QCTerm, have it
> >telnet into any host (HP3000 or not) anywhere in the world, sign on and
> >automatically launch an application, all in just a few seconds -- and then
> >terminate the QCTerm session & instance when the host's program quits.
>
> This is great!

Wirt,

  Just the other day, one of our users asked if we show an email address
on the terminal screen, for example a display of a student's address, if
we could arrange it so they could just click it and open up an email
message to send (just like a web browser).  I immediately thought of
QCTerm's potential here.

  In Reflections, I think I could arrange a button to click that would
extract the email address from the screen, but it would be much more
generally useful if the terminal actually recognized URL syntax itself
and handed it over to the default web browser.

  Of course, we could provide a way for the user to compose the email
message through the terminal screen (not too bad an idea if we had the
full screen editor to use), but why duplicate what the web browser or
email program does well already (I can think of reasons like contact
tracking and such, but these are not always needed)?

   I've now thought of a bunch of different uses for this idea, mostly
for clicking on an html URL, so  I hope you've got it in mind to bring
this to QCTerm soon also.

Thanks for QCterm,
Richard G.


>
> Tom Brandt
> Northtech Systems, Inc.
> http://www.northtech.com


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