Using the host terminal screen as you work

As you develop your ZIETrans project, much of your work will involve screens from your host application. You will use the ZIETrans host terminal to connect to and interact with your host application and use it for these tasks:

Creating screen captures to work with offline when you are not connected to the host
Creating screen events
Creating transformations
Recording and debugging macros

Each of these tasks is described in the following sections.

Note: You also use the host terminal when creating host simulation traces to work with offline when you are not connected to the host. For more information see Using host simulation.

To open a host terminal session, select your project in the ZIETrans Projects view, then click the Open ZIETrans Host Terminal icon on the main tool bar to open the host terminal session. You can also open the host terminal from the pop-up menu by right-clicking any resource in your project, selecting Open Host Terminal, and then selecting the connection to use. If you leave your host session active, you can move around in it as you customize your project, creating screen events and transformations from the active screens. If you prefer, you can navigate to a few screens in your host application and click the Create Screen Capture icon on the host terminal tool bar to create screen captures that you can use to create screen events and transformations.

Table 1 shows the icons that appear on the host terminal screen.

Table 1. ZIETrans host terminal screen icons
Icon	Description
	Create a new ZIETrans screen customization, based on the current screen. The drop-down list shows the screen customizations whose recognition criteria this screen matches.
	Create a new ZIETrans screen combination, based on the current screen. The drop-down list shows the screen combinations whose recognition criteria this screen matches.
	Connect this host session (disabled when the host session is connected)
	Disconnect this host session (enabled only when the host session is connected)
	Capture this screen
	Create a new ZIETrans transformation, based on the current screen
	Open a macro. Use the drop-down list to select a macro.
	Play a macro. Use the drop-down list to select a macro.
	Start recording a macro
	Stop recording a macro
	Save the recorded macro
	Step Into (F5) each macro action for debugging purposes
	Step Over (F6) the macro screens for debugging purposes
	Step Return (F7) in the macro for debugging purposes
	Resume (F8) playback of the macro
	Define the screen recognition criteria for a macro
	Add a prompt action into the current macro (enabled only when recording a macro)
	Add an extract action into the current macro (enabled only when recording a macro)
	Record a loop into the current macro (enabled only when recording a macro)
	Add prompt actions into the current macro for all fields on the screen (enabled only when recording a macro)
	Add extract actions into the current macro for all fields on the screen (enabled only when recording a macro)
	Show or hide the keypad in the host terminal window
	Show or hide the textual Operator Information Area (OIA)

Note: When you use the host terminal through the ZIETrans Toolkit, different actions such as minimizing the terminal window or shifting to a new perspective can cause the terminal window to lose focus and not regain it. Click the terminal window at the cursor position to restore the focus to the terminal window.