HP-UX TN3270 Users Guide, March 1998

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46 Chapter 2

The TN3270 Emulation Program User Interface

Nonselectable Items

Sometimes menu options or dialog items appear dim indicating that

these options or dialog items are disabled and cannot be selected. On a

monochrome screen, it is not possible to show nonselectable items as dim

text; however, you can see which items are not selectable because no

accelerator keys are shown for them.

Dialog items may not be available because of previous selections you

made, such as selecting a particular check box or radio button. The

TN3270 emulation program disables a dialog item when it is no longer

applicable, or when it can no longer be changed because of a previous

selection. For example, if you select “CICS” as the host type in the File

Transfer Options dialog box, the “Units of space” parameters at the end

of the dialog box are not selectable because they do not apply to this host

type.