I work in a shop where we have written many applications using VB6 and Attachmate Extra!PC (versions 6.2 and 6.4) to perform screen scraping. So far they have worked ok in our XP environment, but on our newest installs of XP, they are failing, and some users have upgraded to Extra!PC 7.x (not fully supported by our IT dept, and they have to purchase a separate licence)
Our IT department has just installed the web based version of myExtra! Terminal Viewer (version 3.1.1) I can see that it's internal macro language generates JavaScript code. The objects and methods (mostly getstring, and putstring) seem similar to our VB6 code.
Can anyone please tell me how to integrate this new version into our existing VB programs? Is it as simple as changing a reference of the Extra object to point somewhere besides ExtraPC? We would like to re-write as little of our code as possible.
We strongly suspect our IT department is going to pull the plug on the Extra!PC 6.x within the next few weeks, so we need to be able to somehow use this web-based client.
Roy Clay
rclay@mandtbank.com
Our IT department has just installed the web based version of myExtra! Terminal Viewer (version 3.1.1) I can see that it's internal macro language generates JavaScript code. The objects and methods (mostly getstring, and putstring) seem similar to our VB6 code.
Can anyone please tell me how to integrate this new version into our existing VB programs? Is it as simple as changing a reference of the Extra object to point somewhere besides ExtraPC? We would like to re-write as little of our code as possible.
We strongly suspect our IT department is going to pull the plug on the Extra!PC 6.x within the next few weeks, so we need to be able to somehow use this web-based client.
Roy Clay
rclay@mandtbank.com