Re: Viewing 5250 attribute bytes

No problem, Jon - I guess this kind of thing has a fascination for me. I've not done this one in quite some time. Actually, for the latest documentation of one of our products, we set up PC5250 to basically be gray-scale, and the tech writer used something like Snagit - I tend to use the capture function of Paint Shop Pro.

Some of this idea goes back about 15 years - when someone I worked for used a similar technique to create sample screens for online help in OfficeVision docs.

Also, as I think of it, I'd probably make a translation table - can't use iconv - heh - and put the attributes down to the first x20 positions, to avoid weird translations into displayable ASCII characters.

I actually do think a text-based screenshot can be useful - but you never get the underlines, e.g. - that's why I went that route before

Thanks
Vern

At 08:46 PM 6/13/2007, you wrote:

>> What I've done is get the PF down to my PC using FTP or whatever -
converted to ASCII in the process. Or you could maybe use CPY on the i5 -
Trevor should be proud of me - and put it on the IFS for your PC to read.

Not to detract from your programming efforts Vern - but for documentation
purposes (why else involve Word) why not simply use Snagit to do screen
captures. Really cheap and much nicer and so easy to add callouts -
highlight screen areas etc. I can't imagine working without it these days.

Jon Paris
Partner400

www.Partner400.com

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