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Attachmate.Reflection.Objects.Emulation.IbmHosts Library / Attachmate.Reflection.Objects.Emulation.IbmHosts Library / IbmScreen Object / GetCharacters Method
Row location.
Column location.
Characters length.
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    GetCharacters Method (IbmScreen)
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    Gets ScreenCharacter objects from the specified location, each representing one character at a screen location.
    Syntax
    expression.GetCharacters( _
   ByVal row As Integer, _
   ByVal column As Integer, _
   ByVal length As Integer _
) As ScreenCharacter() object
    where expression is a variable that represents a IbmScreen Object

    Parameters

    row
    Row location.
    column
    Column location.
    length
    Characters length.

    Return Value

    Screen characters on the host screen. This is an array of ScreenCharacter Objects.
    Exceptions
    ExceptionDescription
    ArgumentOutOfRangeException This exception is thrown if the row or column parameters are outside the range of valid values: (1 to Rows) or (1 to Columns).
    Remarks
    The length argument specifies the number of screen bytes to get. In SBCS, the number of screen bytes is the same as that of ScreenCharacter objects. In DBCS, the two numbers can be different. If the last byte is only half of a DBCS character, the last byte is not returned.
    See Also

    Reference

    IbmScreen Object
    IbmScreen Members

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