getting data from a terminal screen 1

[brc2000]

Hi
I am trying to capture data off a terminal screen and save it to a file without saving the entire screen. We are filling out an online form that is transmitted to a mainframe. I would like to write a script that would get the value of about 5 fields on the form and write them to a file. the trick is..how do you identify the location of the of the field to aspect. I have seen emulation programs that would recognize screen coordinates e.g. MyVar=(row5,col1-row5,col21). Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

[yesilkalem]

I have same problem can you send your script file ?

 

[RLHarris]

Look in the Help file Aspect Script Reference under "Termgets" to see how to read a string variable from terminal.

You can use a consistent string variable on the form to determine the locations to collect data. For example, if I want to display a name, and I have a form that looks like this:

"Name: (User Fills in Name - Max 25 Characters)"

I would write:

Proc Main
String LINETOREAD, LINETOFIND
Integer ROW, FIELDPOSITION
for ROW = 0 upto 24
  termgets ROW 0 LINETOREAD 79
  If strfind LINETOREAD "Name:" FIELDPOSITION
    FIELDPOSITION = FIELDPOSITION + 5
    Substr LINETOFIND LINETOREAD FIELDPOSITION 25 
    Usermsg "The name is %s" LINETOREAD ;Displays name
  Endif
endfor
EndProc

Robert Harris
Communications Advantage

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