Capture AS/400 screen to do user guides
K.L NG
I am a programmer, every time after i completed one new system, i
will write the user guide,normally i will cut and paste the screen
into MS-Word file. This was spending a lot of time to do it.
I just thinking whethere have any software can record the srceen and
play it out again to do the guide.(I am useing CA under win95)
Thanks.
Tim
output to a file. Run your applicaton and trhen download the file
Kent Knapp wrote in message <6v41n0$n3s$1...@news2.tor.accglobal.net>...
>There is a tool called SNAGIT that will create a bitmap image of what is on
>your screen. The nice thing is that it is in full colour so you could
>create your user guide in HTML and let the users view it online.
>
>As for a product that automatically pastes screens into a document... I'm
>not sure if one exists...
>
>Kent.
>
>K.L NG wrote in message <361569f...@news.tm.net.my>...
Darryl Johns
>Hi,
> I am a programmer, every time after i completed one new system, i
>will write the user guide,normally i will cut and paste the screen
>into MS-Word file. This was spending a lot of time to do it.
> I just thinking whethere have any software can record the srceen and
>play it out again to do the guide.(I am useing CA under win95)
> Thanks.
I use a product called HyperSnap from Hyperionics
(http://www.hyperionics.com) to do the screen or active window
captures. This saves the screento a variety of graphics formats and
you can them place them in Word.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Darryl Johns
IBM AS/400 e-business Specialist
(opinions expressed are mine, not necessarily those of IBM)
Jim Welsh
> PlayBack 5250
>
> PlayBack 5250 Version 2.0 for Windows 95/NT
>
> This program provides a method to display AS/400 5250 screen images on your
> PC, under Windows 95 or NT. The images look exactly like the original image on a
> dumb terminal--Black background, green and colored text.
>
> The program uses the database file generated from the STRCPYSCN command.
> You simply start copyscreen, record the images you want to playback. Stop copy
> screen. Download the file to the PC as a plain ASCII text file, and load it into
> PlayBack 5250.
>
> Key Features
>
> 95 percent matching of played back image to original AS/400 5250 image. The new
> SFLEND(*SCROLLBAR) keyword tends to cause ugly images.
>
> Step through the playback sequence, one panel at a time, jump to the first or last
> image in the playback sequence.
>
> Draw on the playback image using a number of drawing tools. The drawing is
> temporary and is not stored with the file.
>
> OLE enabled. Drag and drop STRCPYSCN files onto the PlayBack 5250
> application and they are automatically loaded. Embed a STRCPYSCN image in your
> OLE contain enabled application (such as MS WORD, POWERPOINT, LOTUS
> FREELANCE) and your image is embedded and looks like an AS/400 screen
> image.
>
> Copy the screen image to the Windows' clipboard. The image is copied in RTF (rich
> text) so that it can be copied to your favorite word processor or presentation
> software, such as Freelance or PowerPoint. All attributes (yes even the underlines)
> are preserved.
>
> Automatic scaling of the image to the size of the window (including full-screen mode),
> or you can set the font to a specific size.
>
> Pretty much autodetects the original panel size (*DS3 or *DS4). Some bugs in Client
> Access/400 file transfer cause downloaded data to not translate correctly. This can
> cause PlayBack to guess the wrong panel size, however the image should appear
> correctly once you manually set the size.
>
> Code has been added to work around most of the file transfer errors in Client
> Access/400 for Windows 95. Although I'd recommend using another tool (since we
> consider Client Access to be in pre-Alpha test even through it's being shipped as a
> finished product) PlayBack is pretty good about detecting the junk CA/400 adds to
> STRCPYSCN files. Many AS/400 shops have set up a DOS-based PC to do file
> transfers. This may be a solution for your shop.
>
> Full Beta Release
>
> This is the full beta release of Version 2.0. We expect to have the retail version
> available on or about September 15, 1997. At which time the beta will no long
> function. See the known issues for the lasted bug reports.
>
> Benefits
>
> Education professionals such as lecturers (speakers at user group conferences),
> teachers, editors, authors, sales people, and magazine writers will benefit from
> PlayBack 5250.
>
> Use PlayBack during your lecture to do product demos. Without the need for an
> AS/400!
>
> Use PlayBack to prepare a presentation for the next user group conference; get all
> your screen images copied into your presentation package, with the real look of an
> AS/400. No more missing underlines!
>
> Are you giving a session on an AS/400 technical topic, such as application
> development that requires several screen images? Use PlayBack to display the
> images during the lecture, and use it's very cool Rich Text cut/paste feature to copy
> selected images to your favorite word processor to print as handouts.
>
http://www.rpgiv.com/Downloads.html#PlayBack 5250
K.L NG wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a programmer, every time after i completed one new system, i
> will write the user guide,normally i will cut and paste the screen
> into MS-Word file. This was spending a lot of time to do it.
> I just thinking whethere have any software can record the srceen and
> play it out again to do the guide.(I am useing CA under win95)
> Thanks.
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boo...@ibm.net
What I have done, since it is the easiest way, is to start an OS/2 session when I am ready to document. I click the images, and then use one of the good OS/2 image programs to convert them all to .gif or .jpg files and thumbnails. Then it is simple to set the images in the document or onto a web site.
In <361569f...@news.tm.net.my>, on 10/03/98
at 12:09 AM, a...@tm.net.my (K.L NG) said:
>Hi,
> I am a programmer, every time after i completed one new system, i will
>write the user guide,normally i will cut and paste the screen into
>MS-Word file. This was spending a lot of time to do it.
> I just thinking whethere have any software can record the srceen and
>play it out again to do the guide.(I am useing CA under win95)
> Thanks.
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Zeus PGS
If your using Windows, simply use printscreen or ALT-printscreen and paste
it in your documentation.
Sven
K.L NG wrote in message <361569f...@news.tm.net.my>...
Bradley V. Stone
>Hi,
> I am a programmer, every time after i completed one new system, i
>will write the user guide,normally i will cut and paste the screen
>into MS-Word file. This was spending a lot of time to do it.
> I just thinking whethere have any software can record the srceen and
>play it out again to do the guide.(I am useing CA under win95)
> Thanks.
Download a free evaluation copy of Paintshop Pro and use the "Capture
Screen" option. (Just enter a search on your favorite search engine
and you should find a lot of sites to download it from) It will let
you copy the entire screen or a single window with a click of a
button... turns out really nice too. I have used this to capture
screen shots of my shareware to put on my homepage. If you want to
check out what they look like, go to:
http://prairie.lakes.com/~bvstone/screen.html
Hope this helps!
Bradley V. Stone
http://prairie.lakes.com/~bvstone
"Closing my my mouth before I scream. No one can shake my self-esteem." - YJM
boo...@ibm.net
Is there a way to just save the images, then review & rename them like a slide show afterwards? I've asked Windows fans for the name of a good screen capture program and they mention Paint Shop Pro and another program called "Clipper" which I never could find.
In <3616ee1e...@news.lakes.com>, on 10/04/98
at 03:43 AM, bvs...@usa.net (Bradley V. Stone) said:
>a...@tm.net.my (K.L NG) wrote:
>Download a free evaluation copy of Paintshop Pro and use the "Capture
>Screen" option. (Just enter a search on your favorite search engine and
>you should find a lot of sites to download it from) It will let you copy
>the entire screen or a single window with a click of a button... turns
>out really nice too. I have used this to capture screen shots of my
>shareware to put on my homepage. If you want to check out what they look
>like, go to:
>http://prairie.lakes.com/~bvstone/screen.html
>Hope this helps!
>Bradley V. Stone
>http://prairie.lakes.com/~bvstone
>"Closing my my mouth before I scream. No one can shake my self-esteem."
>- YJM
Johan Hellstrom
And of course one could use the old good OVRPRTF QSYSPRT to a physical file (Level check *NO), walk around the application and when you want to save the contents, just press host print screen.
Tim wrote:
You can always use the AS/400 STRCPYSCN on your own session and direct the
output to a file. Run your applicaton and trhen download the file
Kent Knapp wrote in message <6v41n0$n3s$1...@news2.tor.accglobal.net>...
>There is a tool called SNAGIT that will create a bitmap image of what is on
>your screen. The nice thing is that it is in full colour so you could
>create your user guide in HTML and let the users view it online.
>
>As for a product that automatically pastes screens into a document... I'm
>not sure if one exists...
>
>Kent.
>
>K.L NG wrote in message <361569f...@news.tm.net.my>...
Richard Knechtel
>
> Brad, just a question: when I tried Paint Shop Pro I remember having to stop after each capture and do a "save as", and then clear the Paint Shop Pro screen, and then go on. Did I miss a trick?
>
> Is there a way to just save the images, then review & rename them like a slide show afterwards? I've asked Windows fans for the name of a good screen capture program and they mention Paint Shop Pro and another program called "Clipper" which I never could find.
>
Try getting "Snaggit", It works GREAT for grabbing individual "windows".
or full screen images. it uses a hotkey to grab the image so it's always
active until you shut it down.
RK.
boo...@ibm.net
In <6v63qq$bkm$1...@news3.Belgium.EU.net>, on 10/03/98
at 11:10 PM, "Zeus PGS" <ping...@pec.be> said:
>Hi Unknown,
>If your using Windows, simply use printscreen or ALT-printscreen and
>paste it in your documentation.
>Sven
>K.L NG wrote in message <361569f...@news.tm.net.my>...
>>Hi,
>> I am a programmer, every time after i completed one new system, i
>>will write the user guide,normally i will cut and paste the screen
>>into MS-Word file. This was spending a lot of time to do it.
>> I just thinking whethere have any software can record the srceen and
>>play it out again to do the guide.(I am useing CA under win95)
>> Thanks.
Ed Smith
> > I am a programmer, every time after i completed one new system, i
> >will write the user guide,normally i will cut and paste the screen
> >into MS-Word file. This was spending a lot of time to do it.
> > I just thinking whethere have any software can record the srceen and
> >play it out again to do the guide.(I am useing CA under win95)
> > Thanks.
> (http://www.hyperionics.com) to do the screen or active window
> captures. This saves the screento a variety of graphics formats and
> you can them place them in Word.
I just checked that out. It looks very good. I've been using
something called Halo Imager - great for capturing successive screens
in all kinds of formats and with an editor. Capturing 5250-emulation
screens
is much nicer than STRCPYSCN. HyperSnap looks like its got a few more
features.
Thanks for the tip.
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Bradley V. Stone
>Brad, just a question: when I tried Paint Shop Pro I remember having to stop after each capture and do a "save as", and then clear the Paint Shop Pro screen, and then go on. Did I miss a trick?
>
>Is there a way to just save the images, then review & rename them like a slide show afterwards? I've asked Windows fans for the name of a good screen capture program and they mention Paint Shop Pro and another program called "Clipper" which I never could find.
>
>
Well, you're basically right, you do have to "save as". You would in
any capture program, I'm guessing. How else would you name the .gif
(or whatever extension you use)? You did then have t restart
capturing, but thats not a big problem and there's even a hot-key
sequence for it.
I guess I've never found this to be a problem. Then again, I haven't
used any other capturing software, simply because PSP is free and
easy.
john_e...@my-dejanews.com
loac...@127.0.0.1 wrote:
> Try getting "Snaggit", It works GREAT for grabbing individual "windows".
> or full screen images. it uses a hotkey to grab the image so it's always
> active until you shut it down.
>
> RK.
I too will recomend Snaggit. It's very versitle. You can grab the entire
screen, the current active window, or a section, wich you select by clicking
and dragging to cover the area you want on your copy. It'll also copy
directly to the clipboard, so you don't have to muck around with saving to a
file, or opening up another application, like Paintbrush. I've been using it
here to spruce up our night operations documentation. The only thing you
can't do with it is run it under DOS (unless they have a dos based version,
the one I have is 32-bit) but it will supposidly capture a full- screen dos
screen (I haven't tried)
John Edwards
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In <6vc8ou$alh$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, on 10/06/98
at 05:10 AM, john_e...@my-dejanews.com said:
> I too will recomend Snaggit. It's very versitle. You can grab the
>entire screen, the current active window, or a section, wich you select
>by clicking and dragging to cover the area you want on your copy. It'll
>also copy directly to the clipboard, so you don't have to muck around
>with saving to a file, or opening up another application, like
>Paintbrush
sami...@bix.com
3 years to capture and print terminal screen shots (as well as PC app
shots) on the PC and have been very satisfied with it. It provides
additional capabilities, such as captions. Price for the current version
(I'm 1+ behind;>) seem to range from $60-87 depending on Standard or Pro,
license or full package (sorry I'm not up to speed on the Std-Pro diffs).
There are several similar products which I haven't tried. One caution -
what you get will be an image file, and will be subject to the limitations
of Word in handling same. Hope this helps.
On Sat, 03 Oct 1998 00:09:18 GMT K.L NG of Mattel (KL) Sdn. Bhd. wrote this
re Capture AS/400 screen to do user guides:
>will write the user guide,normally i will cut and paste the screen
>into MS-Word file. This was spending a lot of time to do it.
> I just thinking whethere have any software can record the srceen and
>play it out again to do the guide.(I am useing CA under win95)
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From then on when I want to capture a 5250 window I just hit print screen and go on to the next screen. After the session is finished I use any good image program and bring up thumbnails for all of the images which will be named "Pmgrab__.bmp" where ___ is an automatically asssigned sequence number. Then I change the titles of the images I want, select the chosen images, convert them as a group to *.jpg or *.gif, and then slide show them to double check. 10 or 15 minutes work usually. At that point I can leave them displayed and do my documentation and drag and drop them to the document. Excepting for the capture program Pmcamera all of it can be easily done in Windows, Mac, or the OS/2 world.
In <361975ec...@news.lakes.com>, on 10/06/98
at 01:46 AM, bvs...@usa.net (Bradley V. Stone) said:
>Well, you're basically right, you do have to "save as". You would in any
>capture program, I'm guessing. How else would you name the .gif (or
>whatever extension you use)?
Henry Shiah
>Hi,
> I am a programmer, every time after i completed one new system, i
>will write the user guide,normally i will cut and paste the screen
>into MS-Word file. This was spending a lot of time to do it.
> I just thinking whethere have any software can record the srceen and
>play it out again to do the guide.(I am useing CA under win95)
> Thanks.
Why not use "UIM". I use UIM instead of writing user memo/guide.
(i.e. user can hit the help key for all kinds of informations).
Henry Shiah
old...@ipoline.com
Njal Fisketjon (Njål Fisketjøn)
>Well, you're basically right, you do have to "save as". You would in
>any capture program, I'm guessing. How else would you name the .gif
>(or whatever extension you use)? You did then have t restart
>capturing, but thats not a big problem and there's even a hot-key
>sequence for it.
>
>I guess I've never found this to be a problem. Then again, I haven't
>used any other capturing software, simply because PSP is free and
>easy.
Please note: Shareware is NOT the same as free software. PSP is well worth the shareware fee.
Njål Fisketjøn
e-mail: nfis...@hesgrp.com
http://www.robin.no/~nfisketj
Ron
>Hi,
>I am a programmer, every time after i completed one new system, i
>will write the user guide,normally i will cut and paste the screen
>into MS-Word file. This was spending a lot of time to do it.
>I just thinking whethere have any software can record the srceen and
>play it out again to do the guide.(I am useing CA under win95)
>Thanks.
Hello all of you,
Have seen a lot of answers - solution - to capture screens into
graphic files. I would like an easy to use solution to capture screens
into text files. In such a way that do not loose underlines and other
stuff similar like underlines etc. ;-)
Ron
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Charles M. Wilt
a built in ability to capture screens to a database file. Check out the
STRCPYSCN command.
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Ron <kou...@iaehv.nl> wrote in article <361c7bd...@nntp.iaehv.nl>...
Michel Rapelli
with colors. You can make a little test, using DSPCPYSCN for a little number
of screens and
wiev them by query.
Michel
Charles M. Wilt
I've just been using DSPPFM to view the capture.
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Michel Rapelli <Michel...@compuserve.com> wrote in article
<361CCB39...@compuserve.com>...
Richard Knechtel
>
> On Sat, 03 Oct 1998 00:09:18 GMT, a...@tm.net.my (K.L NG) wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >I am a programmer, every time after i completed one new system, i
> >will write the user guide,normally i will cut and paste the screen
> >into MS-Word file. This was spending a lot of time to do it.
> >I just thinking whethere have any software can record the srceen and
> >play it out again to do the guide.(I am useing CA under win95)
> >Thanks.
>
> Hello all of you,
>
> Have seen a lot of answers - solution - to capture screens into
> graphic files. I would like an easy to use solution to capture screens
> into text files. In such a way that do not loose underlines and other
> stuff similar like underlines etc. ;-)
>
> Ron
>
> --
> Ron Kou...@IAEhv.Nl
Use cut and paste, except you WILL lose underlines and such. Just go
back in and add them back in. This is what I do, unless your screens
have TONS of underlines. If you have access to an Amiga there was a
program that would convert graphics to to ascii.
Regards,
RK.
tho...@inorbit.com
I have a set of commands/menus that create scripts for testing, all based on
STRCPYSCN and ENDCPYSCN. For situations where I don't want the extra display
attributes, I include a LF like the following:
A R QSCCPY1 PFILE(lib/CPYSCN)
A*
A SIROW
A SIDATA I TRNTBL(SYDSPATR)
A SIDATAO RENAME(SIDATA)
The trntbl(SYDSPATR) is a simple translation table that just replaces each
unwanted attribute with x'40'. The SIDATAO field allows me to access both
definitions at once, giving me the chance to do character by character
compares in case I need to do something specific such as turn on/off
underlining. Or I can simply ignore it, which is fine for most circumstances.
In short, create a translation table and read the data through a LF.
Tom Liotta
In article <361c7bd...@nntp.iaehv.nl>,
kou...@iaehv.nl (Ron) wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Oct 1998 00:09:18 GMT, a...@tm.net.my (K.L NG) wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >I am a programmer, every time after i completed one new system, i
> >will write the user guide,normally i will cut and paste the screen
> >into MS-Word file. This was spending a lot of time to do it.
> >I just thinking whethere have any software can record the srceen and
> >play it out again to do the guide.(I am useing CA under win95)
> >Thanks.
>
> Hello all of you,
>
> Have seen a lot of answers - solution - to capture screens into
> graphic files. I would like an easy to use solution to capture screens
> into text files. In such a way that do not loose underlines and other
> stuff similar like underlines etc. ;-)
>
> Ron
>
> --
> Ron Kou...@IAEhv.Nl
>
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On Wed, 07 Oct 1998 20:54:08 -0400 boothm of IBM.NET wrote this re Re:
Capture AS/400 screen to do user guides:
>and go on to the next screen. After the session is finished I use any good
>image program and bring up thumbnails for all of the images which will be
>named "Pmgrab__.bmp" where ___ is an automatically asssigned sequence
>number.
chris...@sc.siemens.com
loca...@127.0.0.1 wrote:
> Ron wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 03 Oct 1998 00:09:18 GMT, a...@tm.net.my (K.L NG) wrote:
> >
> > >Hi,
> > >I am a programmer, every time after i completed one new system, i
> > >will write the user guide,normally i will cut and paste the screen
> > >into MS-Word file. This was spending a lot of time to do it.
> > >I just thinking whethere have any software can record the srceen and
> > >play it out again to do the guide.(I am useing CA under win95)
> > >Thanks.
Not sure about that terminal emulation software, but for any PC terminal
software that has built in print screen (like ctrl-P, not AS/400 print
screen) - the easiest way to do this, IMHO is to create a new printer device
on your PC as type "FILE". A lot of people don't know about this, but it's
right there in the Win95 / WinNT printer setup. You change the printer setup
in your emulator to go to this "FILE" printer device, then, when you do the
ctrl-P, Windows pops up a box asking for the name of text file you want it to
create to store the printer output. I forget the specifics, but I think it
will append to an existing file... Later, you can take all your printscreen
files and bring them into word in one shot.
- CList
Steve Brazzell
Richard Knechtel wrote:
> Use cut and paste, except you WILL lose underlines and such. Just go
> back in and add them back in. This is what I do, unless your screens
> have TONS of underlines. If you have access to an Amiga there was a
> program that would convert graphics to to ascii.
>
> Regards,
> RK.
Another thing I have done, so as not to lose underlines, is to go into the
screen and hold down the '&' key, or some such (for character fields) and a
number (for numeric fields) to fill them all in before doing my cut/paste.
Then, after the paste, I replace all occurences of '&' with '_', etc. Crude
approach, I know, but beats the heck out of trying to figure out where the
underlines go...
Steve
Richard Knechtel
RK.
boo...@ibm.net
http://www.spy.net/~booth/IFS.htm
My experience in this is that you lose the underlines because you try to save the image in some size other than it was captured in, or you change the size when you insert it into a document. If you'll make the 5250 window the size you want for the finished project you should be just fine. If you are putting the image into an HTML document then you'll want to be sure the sizes are correct in the image tag.
In <361c7bd...@nntp.iaehv.nl>, on 10/08/98
at 10:00 AM, kou...@iaehv.nl (Ron) said:
>I would like an easy to use solution to capture screens
>into text files. In such a way that do not loose underlines and other
>stuff similar like underlines etc. ;-)
>Ron
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If you are using a text editor for your system documentation. Got to
your emulation windows. Hit Right-Alt and Prt Sc to print the active
window into the clipboard.
Paste the image into your document and voilà the thing looks
just like you are seing it on screen.
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Paul Therrien
> Hi some one guide me how to use STRCPYSCN in as400, if you have any videos reg this, then it would be helpfull for me to learn to take automatic screenshot in spite of taking screenshot manually every time.
Are you trying to get automatic screen shots from you own workstation or from someone else's?
If you want to get images from your own workstation, I would recommend the Snipping tool in Windows 7.
There is also a tool called GreenShot http://getgreenshot.org/
Paul T.
CRPence
>> Hi some one guide me how to use STRCPYSCN in as400, if you have
>> any videos reg this, then it would be helpfull for me to learn to
>> take automatic screenshot in spite of taking screenshot manually
>> every time.
>
> STRCPYSCN appears to be a tool to copy screen shots from a remote
The specification Output Device (OUTDEV) specification being coded as
OUTDEV(*NONE) indicates that "the copied screens do not go to a display
station" as might be the case for a feature similar to remote-assist,
and instead indicates that the output instead must be directed to a flat
file per the requisite specification being that "a value must be
specified for the File To Receive Output (OUTFILE) parameter."
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