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we have a laptop that we would like to be able to share when needed with different users. ne day one person could use it, another day a different person. This does not seem to be a problem with Microsoft products on the laptop but Attachmate will not work. Each user looks on as themselves as...

minds gone blank. I have scraped some text from my screen 22/12/13 and want to compare it to todays date. todays date will change day by day and so will the text I scrape from my screen. how to I compare the two to see if the date (text) I have scraped from by screen is less than todays date...

is it possible to declare a variable so it can hold text or number? I thought "dim variablename as variable" would work but it seems not? thank you smiler44

I have some 60 variables. I dont want to have to set each one back to nothing one at a time once they have been populated. Is there as easier way? thanks smiler44

how do I position a dialog box so it opens in a certain oplace that I determine? currently it opens in the middle of my attachmate screen and so is in the way. I would like to position it to one side of my attachmate screen or have it open in the place where it was when it was closed. thanks...

I have the code below that creates a dialog box, or at least I think its called a dialog box. It has a number of options that the user can select. How do I keep all the options available to the user after they have made a selection and pressed the OK button? Currently once the user pushes the ok...

I have some code that builds a dialog box with two options the user can choose. I donot know in advance how many options the user will require and so I am going to cater for up to 20 options. I want to modify this code that creates a predefined number of options the user can choose. I want to...

I came across this code that creates a box with 2 radio buttons on it. The user can choose which button and then pushes an ok or cancel button. I cannot work out how to adapt it so a textbox/input box is presented so the user can type into the text box and push ok or cancel. Is it a simple...

how do I find a string within a variable string? I think that's the question I want to ask? The length of my variable string will vary and I want to find 3 letters within the variable string, each time I check they could be in a different location within the variable string. variable string =...

I wrote a macro and password protected it. I now need to amend it but have forgotten the password. Am I stuffed or is there a way around it? smiler44

there are a couple of other recent threads along the same lines but I can go get the posted code to work for me. I have attachmate 7.11. I would like to find an abbreviation of RCA no matter where on the screen it is. Would appreciate any help offered. Would appreciate a macro that actually...

is it possible to password protect the code for an attachamate macro as I dont want people messing it up. even better, can I hide the code while still allowing them to run the macro? Thanks smiler44

I had a line of code msgbox(" all done") it was being read and a messgage box displayed. i no longer require this message box and so deleted the line of code . Saved the changes. Still the message box appears when i step through my code. i have closed Attachmate down and restarted it, still it...

I am scraping some text from the screen that is in the format of 02/02/2012 and putting it into a variable I am trying to delcare my variable as a date using dim dayyt as date. Attachmate does not seem to like this. please can you tell me what I should be using? I want to add 3 days to the...

i want to step through my code. I have one sub routine calling another sub routine. i can step through the first sub routine one line at a time. when the first sub calls the second sub, the second sub just seems to go off and run where as i want to step through it. I also dont understand why in...

I want to step through my code 1 line at a time so i can see each result as each line of code is executed. how do i do it? thanks smiler44

How do I open notepad and write to it? Please can you give me the code? I am getting my data from an Attachmate extra screen and storing the required data in a string. once note pad is open i will need to paste the contents of the strings into note pad. Could you also help be with the code for...

I want to paste information into an already open email from office 2007. I am not replying to an email but have opened a new email to send. I will send it manually. I can copy information from the extra screen but cannot paste it into an email, an already open email. How do i take control of an...

not used to using attachmate extra and am trying to modify a macro written by someone that has left the team. I need to know what the value of a string is. using visual basic there is something called the immediate window. by tying ?name of string then hitting return it will show the value...

I may not have all the right terms but I'll do my best to explain I am using visual basic version 5 to control sending data and copying data from an Attachmate screen. When I "press enter" at the bottom of the Attachmate screen I get I think a cross and a small clock at the bottom of the...