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Editing emulator macros

Have been discussing this with another list member. There are 2 styles of macros in the iSeries Access emulator (and PCOMM) - old style and VB script. I've been a little peeved that there is not a decent editor for the VB script style - you have to know all those methods and properties and events and objects and all. But in discussing this, I thought, are there type libraries for these things that I could use in Microsoft's IDE?
Answer? You bet! I started a simple project and opened the Projects menu item. Then I clicked on References... - in that list were a number of items that are named PCOMM aut* Automation Library or some such. I don't have iSeries Access on this machine, but I do have Personal Communications for AS/400 Version 5. So the names might be different for iSeries Access.
But the point it, in the VB IDE there is an object browser, and you can see all the objects in a type library and all their components. Auto-completion does not seem to work, but I can find things in the Object Browser, put the item I want on the clipboard, and paste it into the source. I found that to put an existing macro into the IDE I had to open a project, then add the macro as a file. So it seems one can edit the scripts there, then save them as .MAC files and run in the emulator.
Just a thought - I've not carried this all the way through to the end. Maybe someone with even less of a life than I have can try it out. ;-) 

Vern

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