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Hello,
On 7/6/2011 12:49 PM, Robert Ostrowski wrote:
What the powers that be want to do is allow users to press an F key in
an RPG program, open a Windows Dialog (or some other dialog), and
select a file whether it be a word document, spreadsheet, jpeg image,
PDF, or any other file type. Then the file (or the path to the file)
would be saved to the IFS, a network server, or physical file depending
on how we decide to do this.
To do it precisely the way you stated, you'd need the 5250 emulator to
have support for your file dialog, etc. Then, it'd have to have the
capability to upload the file to the i, which would involve server-side
code as well. That's probably not going to happen.
You can get very close, however, by integrating other technologies
besides green screen. Your 5250 emulator could invoke a PC program, and
the PC program could present the file dialog, and could have code to
handle the upload.
Or, probably the most obvious solution, the F-key could invoke a web
browser on the PC. The browser could present a file upload dialog, and
upload the file. Unlike a 5250 emulator, a web browser has this
capability built-in. I've done this many times.
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