ScreenPoint Object

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ScreenPoint represents a coordinate of a row and a column on the host screen.

Remarks

Screen represents the terminal screen. It provides methods and properties to access terminal screen data.

Example

This example finds the position (row and column) of a string on a screen. To run this sample, create a VT session with the host name/IP address set to demo:unix. Then enter any text for credentials and enter demodata to navigate to the XYZ Company Sales screen. Enter and run this code in a code module.

Visual Basic

'This example finds the position (row and column) of a string on a screen
Sub ExampleForScreenPoint()
 
    Dim sPoint As ScreenPoint
    Dim text As String
    Dim row, column As Integer
    
    'Get the maximum rows for the screen
    row = ThisScreen.DisplayRows
    column = ThisScreen.DisplayColumns
    
    'Find the row
    Set sPoint = ThisScreen.SearchText4("Profit", 1, 1, row, column, FindOptions_Forward, TextComparisonOption_IgnoreCase)
    
    'Get the Text
    text = ThisScreen.GetText(sPoint.row, sPoint.column, 8)
    
    Debug.Print text; " is at row " & sPoint.row & " and column " & sPoint.column
    
End Sub

Reference

ScreenPoint Members
Attachmate.Reflection.Objects.Emulation.OpenSystems Library

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