RE: Graphics on Green screen DDS

["Mark A. Manske" <mmanske@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In a pure green screen world, not really - however there are things you can
do to
trick the system (I am assuming you are running an emulator on a PC,
otherwise
there is no way you can show graphics on a text terminal)

You could do some socket programming
You could run a PC command from the program to execute a "viewer" with your
picture file
You could re-write the app in cgi and make it browser based and really open
things up
You could use visual RPG (IBM's or ASNA's)
You could use web-sphere


Personally I have only done the pc command and re-write an app in cgi
(browser based),
the pc command was prone to many forgotten things, no access to shared
drives, no
viewers on the pc running the app, people resizing the window so it was no
longer
visible, and people getting annoyed at a window popping up over their as/400
session.
Converting to a web app, has been an interesting experience, inquiry
programs are
easy, interactive stuff took more thought than this old green screener was
used to-
but it does pick up speed as you understand what you are doing.

The only other thing I had done "many" years ago was to use GDDM, but that
would only
"draw" pictures and graphs, you could not "import" anything, plus you had to
have a
special terminal, a normal 5250 emulator will not support GDDM.

Those are about all I can think of this late in the day - good luck

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of RWilliams@symatrix.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 4:11 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Graphics on Green screen DDS


Does Anyone out there know how to combine a graphic images, (bit maps or
jpg's etc.) on a DDS Green screen?

Richard Williams
Symatrix Technology
503 430-6362
503 701-1866(cell)
rwilliams@symatrix.com

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