Century Software, Inc., has been asked for a TinyTERM option that would remove the maximize, minimize and close buttons from the title bar. To date this has not been implemented.

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From the View menu or the Preferences option on the Edit menu, most of the information in the TinyTERM 4.x window can be turned off. However, there is no way at present to turn off the title bar. So TinyTERM isn’t quite capable of displaying completely full screen, taking over the entire area. But it does come close.

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Customers have requested that the Ribbon Bar and menus in TinyTERM be made editable, to allow custom buttons and menu items. While the Ribbon Bar cannot be edited in TinyTERM 4.x, the menus can be edited using CScript commands.

It has also been requested that the tool bars be dockable, able to be moved to different positions in the TinyTERM window. This is not possible currently with any Century Software, Inc., product for Windows.

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TinyTERM 4.30 added a right-click menu to the main emulator window. It allows copy and paste operations from the mouse. Previously, users needed to go to the Edit menu for that functionality, or program the mouse.

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This error comes from running a TinyTERM version prior to 4.10 on Windows Me. Only TinyTERM versions 4.10 and higher are supported in that environment.

Connecting to the server via modem, when you disconnect TinyTERM it may lock up. Even though it’s a modem connection, this is most likely a corrupted installation of Winsock2. You will need to reinstall Winsock2 to fix the problem.

When using Alt-Tab to switch between Windows applications, TinyTerm is not always active when you return to it. You have to click on the TinyTERM window to make it active.

This is a focus problem. Alt-Tab is returning system focus to tt.exe, which is the application that runs TinyTERM. What it’s not doing is returning focus to the ActiveX control that makes up the actual emulator.

This is a Windows peculiarity. The tt.exe application is really just a wrapper around the ActiveX control. It allows CenTE.ocx to run by itself, instead of in a Web browser for example. When Windows tracks the application, it normally only sees tt.exe, and so that’s where it returns focus. It’s not seeing the ActiveX piece by itself, so it doesn’t always get the focus in the right place. Unfortunately, there’s no programming we can do in TinyTERM to change that Windows behavior.

When switching to another Windows application from TinyTERM, your cursor may disappear. This can happen if you set a block cursor within TinyTERM. In some circumstances, this sets the cursor to block globally within Windows. It’s a Windows behavior, not something that can be controlled within TinyTERM.

In this situation, when you switch to another application, such as Microsoft Word, the global block cursor may appear as no cursor. It can’t be displayed as a block in the new application. The only fix is to use an underscore cursor instead of a block.

When another Windows application becomes active, TinyTERM will lose focus. If this is happening while you’re using TinyTERM, check for other applications that might be running in the background.

For example, you may have email software that checks your account regularly. When it checks, TinyTERM loses focus. In a situation like this, consult your software documentation to see if the behavior can be changed.

While trying to manually uninstall TinyTERM, you may find there are some files you cannot delete, such as CenLic32.dll. It’s caused when the file is in use by Windows.

When this happens, finish as much of the uninstall process as possible, then reboot the PC in safe mode. You will be able to delete the files then. Reboot again after deleting the files to return to normal mode.