Screen Capture of a CHUI interface

JamesBowen

JamesBowen

19+ years progress programming and still learning.
Hi.

We have a old Legacy CHUI application and our operators have business process of do screen captures of by pressing the "ALT+Print Scrn" Button.

Because each users have customised there Putty settings for differently all the screen dumps can look differently.

Now a long time ago back in 8.3C I had a 4GL code running on UNIX (SCO 5.5) which would capture the current terminal screen to File. But because it was such ago time ago I can't remember how to do this.

Can anyone help me.
P.S. I can't use the WIN32 API calls because the application is running on Linux.

Thanks.
 
This issue was discussed somewhere at some length fairly recently ... but I don't remember where. In many ways, there actually is no good answer. There were some products a while back which would get in the stream between ABL and the terminal emulator and which could do screen captures in a standardized way ... although, of course, no guarantee that is what the user was actually seeing. But, I don't know if any of those products still exist. The name FacetTerm rings a faint bell.

You are likely to have an easier time just getting people to standardized their putty settings!
 
Thanks for the quick reply.

I don't think I was using any software back then. If memory serves me wright the program I have did a simple widget walk and output it to a file using the "put" statement.

What I do remember (8 years ago) during development at the all the widget were being outputted without side labels or screen values. But that turned out to be a simple fix.

It was very simple but I just can't remember fully how to do it.
 
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