Capturing display file images for documentation

["William A. Hansen" <whansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We have been doing this for years to capture screens to insert into our 
training simulator.

We use STRCPYSCN to capture the screens.  The tricky bit is getting them to the 
PC, since different programs trash the attribute bytes in different ways.  I 
like FTP, since it maps the EBCDIC attribute bytes into consistent ASCII 
characters.  Client Access data transfer, on the other hand, maps all attribute 
bytes to the same character.  (When I complained, IBM actually said this was a 
feature, not a bug.)  

We wrote a program that converts attribute bytes in the downloaded file into 
HTML tags.  That way, we can plop the screen into a web document or Word.

We use Paint Shop Pro to capture GUI screens, such as iSeries Navigator.  It's 
cheap and has everything I ever needed plus some.

Bill

William A. Hansen
Manta Technologies Inc.
(847) 382-7189
whansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx