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The KoalaTerm Window



This section provides KoalaTerm main window snapshot and introductions to all menu options.


This sesction describes the following topics:

The KoalaTerm Main Window
Menu Bar
Tool Bar


The KoalaTerm Main Window


Title Bar: Displays a version name. During a connection session,the transportation type (port or host name) or a session title (if you name it) is displayed next to the version name.To entitle a session,you can select the "General" tab in the KoalaTerm Settings .

Menu Bar: Provides drop-down command tabs to enable you to employ the most KoalaTerm operations.For more information click here.

Tool Bar: Holds tools which can serve as shortcut to access menu files or other settings.For more information click here.

Work Area: Displays the data and/or text from your host on screen during a connection session. This work space emulates a VT terminal screen.

Chat Line: Sends your commands or request more efficiently while negotiating with the remote host over a slow link.You can select "Chat Line" from "View" menu to show or hide the chat line input box.

Button Palette Area: Contains 32 on-screen buttons that you can define them to carry out different actions in button page. If the button palette are not displayed on screen, choose "Button Palette" from the "View" menu. For more information about "Button Palette" click here.

Status Line: Reports the event when the mouse points to any menu or tool.

Cursor Position Counter: Indicates the current line and the column position of the cursor in the screen.

History Buffer: Supports with adjustable memory capacity and enables you to scroll up and down through KoalaTerm screen to view the previous data.


Menu Bar



Connection Menu: This menu provides options to create, open, save and close files, provides settings to open setting pages. You can use "Save As Template" to save the current settings and open for next time. You also can use "Run Script" to find a script files to edit.For more details, click here.

Edit Menu: This menu provides standard Windows editing commands -- "copy, paste,select all, find and find Last " In addition, the new feature in Version 4.1 "Record Macro" is added in this menu, you can selec this command to record any typings on your screen, and play it back. For more details, click here.

View Menu: This menu provides options to show or hide KoalaTerm components on screen like "Tool Bar, Status Bar, Chat Line, Buttons Pallete", to master your current session font. Clear-command enables you to delete the then-current screen contents or delete the contents from history data or scroll buffer. For more details, click here.

Window Menu: This menu provides commands for you to create "New Window", to "Cascade" all the terminal windows,to "Title" all the terminal windows so that they can be viewed in one dispaly,or to "Arrange Icons" of the minimized active windows. Also you can select "Next" to display the window one by one, or use "Hold Screen" to freeze the screen. For more details, click here.

Print Menu: This menu provides all the VT printing functions: Printing Screen and auto Printing Mode. You also can display the "Printing Setup" dialog box to change the printing parameter and/or select the local or remote print mode. In addition, you can copy selected text and graphics or the entire screen to the clipboard. Then, you can paste the clipboard contents to any application that can print the copied area. For more details, click here.

Transfer Menu: This menu provides "Receive Zmodem" and "Send Zmodem". Select "Send Zmodem", you are about to open a "Send File" dialog box to select the file for sending. For more information about how to send file, click here .


Toolbar


Create New Connection: Click this Icon you are about to open a new connection dialog box in which you can choose "Connection Type", select "Template" you previously saved, or change "Settings" for your new session window. This icon is equivalent to the "Connection > New" in the menu bar.

Reconnect: If you choose not to close the window after disconnected from the host in KoalaTerm Settings general page, you will see this button get enabled after you closed a session, and you can Reconnect to the host by just press the icon, just one click! And your login script, if set up, will also be re-executed!

Open File: If you want to open a file during a session, you can click this icon.This icon is equivalent to the "Connection > Open" in the menu bar.

Save: Store all the contents on the active terminal screen including history buffer.This icon is equivalent to the "Connection > Save" in the menu bar.

Print: Print the selected text or the entire contents on the current session.This icon is equivalent to the "Print > Print Page" in the file menu.

Copy to Clipboard: Copy the data or text you selected to the clipboard from the active session screen.This icon is equivalent to the "Edit > Copy" in the menu bar.

Paste from Clipboard: Paste the data or text you already copied to where you want to put.This icon is equivalent to the "Edit > Paste" in the menu bar.

Find Text: Enables you to search the text conveniently. All you need to do is inputting the file name in the typing filed,KoalaTerm will show the result with shadowed appearance on screen.. Case Sensitive help you to distinguish capital letter or small letter if you check this mode.This icon is equivalent to the "Edit > Find" in the menu bar.

Find Next: Enables you to continue last search.This icon is equivalent to the "Edit > Find Next" in the menu bar.

Larger Font: Enlarge the font on your active session screen. This icon is equivalent to the "View > Larger Font" in the menu bar.

Smaller Font: Lessen the font on your active session window. This icon is equivalent to the "View > Small Font" in the menu bar.

Terminal Setup: Click this icon, you are about to open a setup pages in which you can customize all the KoalaTerm Settings. For more information about KoalaTerm Settings,click here.This icon is equivalent to the "Connection > Settings" in the menu bar.

Capture to File: If you want to capture the text on the active session screen to your file, click this icon, and click again to stop. For more information about "Capture" click here .This icon is equivalent to the "Connection > Capture To File" in the menu bar.

Record Macro: This is a new exciting feature for KoalaTerm 4.1.It can record and play back every typings and actions on your current session screen. For more information about Record Macro, click here.This icon is equivalent to the "Edit > Record Macro " in the menu bar.

Help Contents: Provides you KoalaTerm help doucuments. This icon is equivalent to the "Help > Content" in the menu bar.

Exit Icon: Click this icon, you are about to close all sessions and quit the application. There are several ways to exit, for more click here. This icon is equivalent to the "Connection > Exit" in the menu bar.


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