Hello
I am running a VBA macro in Excel which drives an Attachmate Extra screen. It sends keys and get strings well, but unfortunately, a printing command is not part of the session object.
I could “Get” all the text from the screen and write to the spreadsheet or a text document with relative ease, but this is not acceptable for my needs.
I would like to send the file-print command – or the equivalent of clicking the print icon, with no YesNoCancel dialog for the user to have to respond to.
It is to automate the process of printing large numbers of screens.
If it’s not possible to send the print command to the Extra screen, is there another way to reference it, with Hwnd function perhaps?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you
Iain
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i am a newbie in Extra! Basic...
Have you a solution for my prob:
is possible to set via VBA for Excel this param?
see image.
http://www.gssitaly.com/ex
Tks for all ....
Hello sal21.
I had a look at my session in work today, it's not the same as yours.
I'm using a VT420, yours appears to be a 3270.
I don't have a Printing tab like yours on my settings, so I'm affraid I'm not sure what the code would be to control these settings.
Not much help I'm afraid....
Have a look through the object library (pressing F2 in the code window displays it) and filter for the Extra! library. If theres anything, you should find it there.
Iain
ok! Tks for your word... you are only the user to send me an interessant suggestion...
But where i found a guide to VBA for EXtra?
and
Have a look through the object library (pressing F2 in the code window displays it) and filter for the Extra! library. If theres anything, you should find it there.
Where i press in witch application?
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by: IainTheVBALearnerPosted on 2004-03-23 at 11:34:33ID: 10660817
Emm....here is a solution to this - it is a macro I found on my pc in work which came with the Attachmate Extra! software.
It's a bit full of nonsense, and it can be simplified a lot.
With my situation, this did not print the last final 2 characters of each row, 78 only instead of 80 so I had to create an instance of Word, dump the block of text to it, format it and print it, then close Word - took a bit of messing about but I got there in the end.
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Option Explicit
Sub Main
' Dimension macro variables and objects
Dim rc%, row%, MaxColumns%, MaxRows%, filenum%
Dim Screenbuf$, linebuf$, FileName$
Dim System As Object
Dim Session as Object
' Get the main system object
Set System = CreateObject("EXTRA.System
If (System is Nothing) Then
Msgbox "Could not create the EXTRA System object. Aborting
macro playback."
Stop
End If
' Get the necessary Session Object
Set Session = System.ActiveSession
If (Session is Nothing) Then
Msgbox "Could not create the Session object. Aborting macro
playback."
Stop
End If
' Determine the size of the Presentation Space
MaxRows% = Session.Screen.Rows()
MaxColumns% = Session.Screen.Cols()
' Initialize variables to hold screen information
Screenbuf$ = ""
linebuf$ = Space$ (MaxColumns%)
' Copy the Presentation space
For row% = 1 to MaxRows%
' Get a row of data from the host screen
linebuf$ = Session.Screen.Area(row%, 1, row%, MaxColumns%, ,
xBlock)
' Store the line read into screenbuf$
screenbuf$ = screenbuf$ + linebuf$ + Chr$ (13) + Chr$ (10)
Next
' Get the next available file number
filenum% = FreeFile
' Open the printer. To print to a file, set FileName$ to a file name.
' In this example, "\\TES\L4S_HP" is a network printer name.
' Change this to your printer name.
FileName$ = "\\TES\L4S_HP"
Open FileName$ For Output as filenum%
' Print the screen with a form feed
Print # filenum%, screenbuf$; Chr$ (12)
'Close printer
Close filenum%
End Sub
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Iain