Page UP / Page Down

[Vengan...@gmail.com]

I'm trying to use TouchTerm primarily connect to a linux box I've got
running IRSSI (irc.) Connects great, loving the app so far, but I was
wondering if there is currently any way to get a page up / page down
command so I can read the back log.

It'd be great to have as a soft button in the future.

[TouchTerm Support]

it's certainly possible to add PgUp/PgDn to a TouchTerm keyboard --
the main issue here is that we're starting to run out of space for
extra keys. i think we should be able to add one more keypad to the
top toolbar...so i think i'll start up a new thread and see what other
possible keys we could include.

another possibility is that it seems like we've been getting a good
amount of feedback from IRSSI users, so maybe it makes sense to
support an "IRSSI Mode" in the standard version of TouchTerm.

i'm not sure if you're using TT Pro or not, but for the record, it's
pretty straightforward to "add" this functionality to TT Pro by
creating a custom a keypad which transmits the proper codes: the
escape sequences for PgUp and PgDn are "^[5~" and "^[6~", so you could
edit a new Keypad key to perform the following Actions:
- Send Escape
- Send String: "[5~" (or "[6~" for PgDn)


finally...in the meantime, according to the IRSSI docs, you can use
Alt-p and Alt-n as an alternative to PgUp/PgDn. it's not as nice as
having a pgup/pgdn key, but at least it will work. :)

[ingre...@gmail.com]

Thanks for the tip TouchTerm Support! Like vengance, I'm a Linux /
irssi user.

Alt-N / Alt-P appears to work for scroll back and scroll forward.
However, the functionality is only limited. When scrolling back, only
the top half of the screen updates (everything above where the
keyboard is). When scrolling forward, only the bottom half of the
screen updates (everything below the keyboard).

A secondary observation is that the screen does not seem to
automatically update & scroll when new messages are entered or
received in irssi. In other words, if I enter two separate lines of
text, I will see the first, and then it is overwritten by the second
without scrolling the first. If I switch to a different irssi window
and come back, the text is scrolled appropriately. Do you have any
thoughts/suggestions as to how to fix this?

Thanks for the great app.

[TouchTerm Support]

sounds like we have some terminal emulation problems with irssi...

i'm in the process of downloading it now...we'll spend some time
playing with it and see if we can get it working for the next update.

i imagine that the problem stems from using vt100; in the worst case
that there aren't any easy fixes, this will almost certainly be
addressed when we get around to implementing xterm emulation (see this
thread: http://groups.google.com/group/touchterm/browse_thread/thread/33007828e39509e3)

for the scrolling issue -- if you haven't tried already, you might try
turning off the "Allow Scrollback" option; i'm not sure if this will
fix things in your case, but that might solve the issue temporarily.
but hopefully we'll have better answers once we get a chance to play
with it. :)