Re: Feeding an interactive application?

["Rick Klopfer" <rixone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Albert -  I have downloaded it and am looking at the example code...

Thanks!

--Rick


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Albert York" <albertyork@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: Feeding an interactive application?


> I have a utility which allows batch program to interact with interactive
> screens. It's call TNAPI (telnet API). Your program calls it passing it
> the data you want to send to the screen and it passes back the screen. I
> think it will do what is being requested.
>
> TNAPI is freeware and I can send you a copy as a save file inside a zip
> file. You can use it however you want except to sell it.
>
> Albert York
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Al Mac"
>  To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"
>  Subject: Re: Feeding an interactive application?
>  Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:19:22 -0600
>
>
>  Even though source not provided, you may be able to retrive source,
>  if the
>  vendor contract does not prohibit reverse engineering. Depending on
>  how
>  the prompt screen talks to the program, you may be able to seed the
>  first
>  iteration of the screen with data from another program, do whatever,
>  end
>  program, and repeat for other entry.
>
>  The above is a long shot.
>
>  You could have the user with more than one session open. Other
>  session
>  gets the population for the 8 fields.
>  User do some kind of cut & paste from one session to another.
>
>  Without having access to the RPG source, if you can retrieve the DDS
>  source
>  and rearrange the screen, it may be possible to get economies that
>  way.
>
>  > Have a situation, in which a user must enter about 8 key fields
>  > in a maintenance program to retrieve data that needs to be
>  > changed. This is a software vendor-supplied program (its RPG -
>  > but no source available).
>  >
>  > We can extract the 8 fields the user needs from several
>  > databases. The question is...is there a way to "feed" this info
>  > to the maintenance program screen? We were thinking maybe using
>  > CL to read the extracted data from a file to "populate" the
>  > screen...and then have the user take over control and do the
>  > required maintenance. We figure we can cut the user's time
>  > required to complete this in about half.
>  >
>  > Anybody done this????
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