What's New in AniTa for the WEB

The current version of AniTa for the Web is 2.9.1.0 This page lists the important enhancements.

Important changes since 2.4

• Optional menu bar
• SSH with RSA and DSA keypair generation
• New: JSEvents, Use to make janita call a defined javascript function when a trigger string of characters are received from the host.
• New macro %url% will open a web page. Many options.
• Look and feel updates.

Important changes since 2.1.0.6

• A configurable timer (default 500 ms) now delays the closing of the print spooler between jobs so that a new printing sequence from the host is included in the ongoing print job. Also supported are sequence codes to set page orientation, lines per inch and narrow font settings from the host.
• Support for AniTa Command Language (ACL) verbs:
      SET DISABLE-COMP-CODES
      FILESIZE
      DIR
      ERASE
      CHDIR
      CD
      COPY
      APPEND
      MKDIR
      MKDIRS
      RMDIR
• Support for the file transfer protocol "toanita".  Use it for easy transfer of files from Host to PC.
• Support for Mouse Wheel.
• Support for additional character sets:
     Cyrillic ISO 8859-5
     Greek, ISO 8859-7
     South European charset ISO 8859-3

Important changes since 1.1

• Support of the much faster Java 1.4
• New escape sequences to improve integration with customer's applications
• New Programmer's Guide
• Improved functionality in web browsers and integration  with JavaScript
• Improved cursor functionality - blinking - programmatically turn on/off
• Supports hidden automatic login
• Mouse support for copy and paste

Since the last major release: 1.0.5.3

• The screen font size can now be changed by dragging the window's edge or corner. When the user stops dragging the window, the emulator will select the largest possible font size that will fit into the window, and then adjust the window size accordingly.
• Supports pass-through terminal printing. Print output can be sent from the host application, via AniTa, to the client's printer. Printers can be local, connected to the AniTa workstation, or remote, connected via a network. Screen dump printing can be initiated by either the user or the host. Printing can be in color or black-and-white.
• Supports more languages - currently Swedish, Portuguese, Dutch, German and Spanish. AniTa can be customized for any other language.
• Better support of international character keys has been provided; noticeably when running Gnome and "English" KDE.
• Simplified and improved installation on Linux / UNIX platforms. An install script is now provided to create the janita and janitaconfig startup scripts. Icons are provided for user's to use when adding AniTa to their desktop.
• The configuration program can be started via a button from the emulator when running as an Application.
• Appearance and functionality of the configuration program has been improved; especially for non-Windows platforms.
• Title bar configuration added.