Invisible Fields

[Vexaxix]

The mainframe I connect to has a number of 'invisible' fields. Ones which contain data, but are not actually displayed.

When I screen.getstring the field, it captures the data, even though it is not visible.

How can I determine if the text is invisible? If it is, I don not want to capture it.

 

[Vexaxix]

This is what I use right now, but I was hoping there might be a function I am unaware of that is less of a work-around.

Sub Invisible(the_row, the_col, the_length, the_string)

'Reads invisible fields properly

Set Invisible_Field = Screen.Select(the_row, the_col, the_row, the_length + the_col)
the_string = Screen.Selection
Set Invisible_Field = Nothing

End Sub