Reflection .NET API
Attachmate.Reflection.Emulation.IbmHosts Assembly / Attachmate.Reflection.Emulation.IbmHosts Namespace / IIbmScreen Interface / GetText Method
Text row position.
Text column position.
Length of the text.


GetText Method (IIbmScreen)
Gets the text from the specified location.
Syntax
'Declaration
 
Function GetText( _
   ByVal row As Integer, _
   ByVal column As Integer, _
   ByVal length As Integer _
) As String
 
'Usage
 
Dim instance As IIbmScreen
Dim row As Integer
Dim column As Integer
Dim length As Integer
Dim value As String
 
value = instance.GetText(row, column, length)

Parameters

row
Text row position.
column
Text column position.
length
Length of the text.

Return Value

The text.
Exceptions
ExceptionDescription
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 the ScreenCharacter objects. In DBCS, the two numbers can differ. If the last byte is half of a DBCS character, it is not returned.
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