RE: TNAPI (was Virtual Terminal API's)

I had not used this before, but it looked interesting so I gave it a
try. I was able to get it into our main application and move around
without any major problems. I would have to get deep into something to
get to a numeric field, so I threw together a small test and it works
for me. I did have to tweak TNAPIFUNC. It is hardcoded to 127.0.0.1 and
the box I am working on doesn't allow unnamed display connections. This
looks interesting but it looks like I would have to know more about the
5250 stream to use it for anything productive.

My test - https://code.midrange.com/3cbbfd852b.html

Kevin Bucknum
Senior Programmer Analyst
MEDDATA/MEDTRON
Tel: 985-893-2550

-----Original Message-----

From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Art
Tostaine, Jr.
Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 6:30 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: TNAPI (was Virtual Terminal API's)

Art Tostaine, Jr. <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>
6:34 PM (32 minutes ago)
to RPG
With TNAPI I got through our login screen, typing TELNET to the other
system, signing on there, and pressing enter a few times, but I fail

once I get

to the first field in the user program. It's a menu and a 3 digit

numeric.

I tried SendtoLoc and also SendScrn but none of them are putting 003

in the

field.

Here is the log with some stuff removed.

R/T FUNCTIONS
Select: 000

##########################################################
######################
2018-08-07-19.02.05.328 SENT: 003

2018-08-07-19.02.05.355 RECV: 06,22 1 127.0.0.1
c XXX Inc.

Option can not be bl

ank||

I See the 003 being sent but it's not on the screen capture. Looks

like the

Enter is going. But the app says operation can't be blank. If I runi

it manually I

can enter 003 and press enter and it works.

Thanks, Art

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Art Tostaine
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