• Overview
• Surround Plug-Ins
• Newlook
• SOArchitect

Surround Plug-Ins for newlook

newlook from Look Software extends the life of legacy applications with an instant makeover that provides flexible presentation options. Supporting the diverse client needs of today’s businesses, you can generate application support of your System i (AS/400, iSeries and i5) host applications to rich client devices, zero-deployment web thin clients, and an amazing array of mobile devices.

How do the Plug-ins Work

1. Newlook – Modernize your screens using newlook.
2. Transaction Recorder – Use the Transaction Recorder to create scripts to get to and from the modernized screens.
3. Plug-in – Use these plug-ins to embed newlook into your Application, what scripts to use to get to and form the modernized screens, and interface with those screens.
4. Integrate – Use the Plug-in to programmatically retrieve and put information from and onto the screens.

Web Services – one of the great benefits of the newlook Scripts built using the Transaction Recorder is that they can also, very easily, be turned into Web Services using the SOArchitect. Now you can utilize these same modernization technologies and efforts to unleash your green screens as web services.

Why are the plug-ins Free?

How do those sayings go - "Why ask why?" "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth!" But in all seriousness, there really is not much to it. We would almost feel guilty charging you. Looksoftware has done all the hard work with newlook, the transaction recorder, and SOArchitect. We're just helping you capitalize on this great technology in Visual LANSA.

newlook plug-in for Visual LANSA

Repurpose your 5250 screens and Plug them into your Visual LANSA Application.

newlook session/job management

Once you plug in your first newlook screen, you will want to plug in more and more throughout your application exposing more and greater functionality to your users. You can add screens in multiple windows, even have multiple sessions in one window. It really is quite cool. However, this can quickly become overdone and start to tax your system with numerous and often inactive jobs.

The plug-in provides interfaces to identify how many sessions are being used and get additional information about that sessions to decide how to manage it.

Function Key Management

An API to the plug-in allows you to identify programmatically what Function Keys are available on the screen.

Sample, pre-built modernized screens

• Messages – Display Message, DSPMSG, Command and Screens
• Send Message – Send Messages, SNDMSG, Command and Screens
• Reports (Spool Files) – Work With Spool Files, WRKSPLF, Command and Screens
• User Jobs – Work With User Jobs, WRKUSRJOB, Command and Screens
• Submitted Jobs – Work With Submitted Jobs, Command and Screens
• Printers – Work with Writers, WRKWTR, Command and Screens
• Active Jobs – Work With Active Jobs, WRKACTJOB, Command and Screens
• Output Queues – Work With Output Queues, WRKOUTQ, Command and Screens
• Job Queues – Work With Job Queues, WRKJOBQ, Command and Screens
• IFS Folders – Work With Links, WRKLNK, Command and Screens

newlook plug-in for Accelerator

This plug-in is an extension of the newlook plug-in for Visual LANSA. It provides all that functionality wrapped up nicely into the Accelerator Framework Now, re-purposing your existing 5250 applications couldn't be easier. Simply set up the screens in newlook and configure the framework to plug them into any part of your Accelerator application. Accelerator takes care of the rest.

Automatic Session Management allows you to configure how many separate newlook sessions a user is allowed in various functional areas of the system. This is a highly functional and robust control mechanism that enables true multi-window support and provides your users with the most productivity with out adding undo burden to your system.

Function Keys are automatically set up as Accelerator commands and can be handled like any others. Additionally, they are automatically visualized into the toolbar, the Menu bar and right click Dialog Menu. All without any coding. Then with a few key strokes you can quickly utilize remove unneeded functions or use Accelerator built in security to configure them by user role.

All sample, pre-built modernized screens are configured into 2 pre-built applications: "400 User Options" and "400 System Options". These can be easily plugged into any Accelerator based application.