Attachmate Extra! Objects

John Daniels

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Feb 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM2/18/98

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Anyone using Attachmate's Extra! Objects ? Would like to hear your experience.
Just got them and so far used the terminal object which has a large memory
footprint. Going to try loading into Visual C++ and test their performance and
memory issues. If all goes well I will try using them in PB to see the
difference in memory usage on the container side. If VC++ is better I will
build a DLL which handles the views and then make them a child of some visual
object. If anyone has some Extra! experience, I would appreciate anything you
could contribute.

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John Mackie

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Feb 23, 1998, 3:00:00 AM2/23/98

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We created an object in Powerbuilder to interface with Extra! through the
attachmate api ATMAPI.DLL and ATMAPI32.DLL. This sheilds the developers from having
to know the api function calls and provides a common place to make enhancements.
This is used to capture information from the host screen and then save it to an
Oracle database. We have not conducted any tests on memory usage. Running the
process under Windows95 works with numerous other applications running (Word,
Excel, cc:Mail, etc.) at the same time.

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John Campbell

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Jun 21, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/21/98

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Anyone using the PowerBuilder interface to Attachmate's Extra? I would like to hear
your
Experiences.
A local application we use produces data that needs to be entered into
transactions and sent to an application running on an IBM host.
I downloaded an OLE sample from the Attachmate Web Page. It runs OK from W95 but
doesn’t like NT4.0.
If anyone has any experience doing something like this, I would appreciate anything

you could contribute.

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Jul 15, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/15/98

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John,

One thing you might look at that hit me is, when whoever installs the
Attachmate software on the client MUST have admin privileges.

Secondly, all the Attachmate DLL's MUST be in the Attachmate directory ( I
tried to move the associated DLLs to the PB directory and it failed) -
something to do with how they hide things in the registry. Being you have
this working in WIN95, this should not be the problem.

Other than that, it works fine. I created a NVO object to hold all the
function definitions and calls. The documentation contained a list of the
functions which I cut and pasted into an editor, modified and then cut and
pasted into the NVO. It went quickly.

Also, when you create a session the session is logged in the registry under
the profile name of the user that created the session. This means,
multiple users can use the same session name (which is good), but a session
must be either created by each user or a script be written to write each
user into the registry.

HTH.

Rexford MacGregor, CPD-P
MacGregor Consulting, Inc.

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