With previous versions of IBM Personal Communications, size
of the fonts of the emulator screen (a.k.a presentation space) would
not increase beyond a point. On a larger monitor, this would make
PCOMM to fill lot of blank area around the active presentation space.
With IBM Personal Communications V16.0, True Type Fonts (.ttf) will
scale up to cover the entire presentation space, in proportion to
the screen resolution.
Context Menu upon right-click mouse operation
With IBM Personal Communications V16.0, right-click mouse operation
on the presentation space results in a context menu. The context menu
provides options to carry out basic edit operations, and session operations
such as switching between sessions, saving, disconnecting and exiting
sessions.
“Settings” menu to set session preferences
Preferences sub-menu under Edit menu
has now been made available as Settings menu
with IBM Personal Communications V16.0. The new Settings menu is available
between the Edit and View menus
Enhanced Visual Styles and Icons
IBM Personal Communications V16.0 offers new Windows visual
styles. The product has been updated with richer icons in toolbars
and menus. The emulator tool bar shows the icons along with captions
by default
“Recent Profiles” menu
With IBM Personal Communications V16.0, Recent
Profiles submenu has been added under the File menu.
Through this submenu, most recently used 10 emulator sessions can
be accessed.
“Alt + Enter” to switch to Full Screen
With IBM Personal Communications V16.0, an emulator session
can be toggled to and fro between full screen and normal window at
the click of Alt + Enter key. A keyboard mnemonic “[fullscreen]” has been provided to map
the functionality to any of the keys on the keyboard.