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Screen scraping for emulator

i am currently working in a hospital which uses a pretty own system in basic, however we are using an emulator to access this application from unix,since its program run as a database program inside unix..although it is in unix solaris access to its actual files is impossible..
if somecode can point me, give me a source code for screen scraping or perhaps any tutorial, i'll be very glad..
thank you in advance..i need help in this one...i tried researching but all are for web based screen scrape..
Apr 20 '07 #1
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Killer42
8,435 Expert 8TB
Sorry, I'm a bit unclear on what you're asking for.

Is it code to grab the Windows screen or the current window in Visual Basic, or what?
Apr 20 '07 #2
its an old database program running in unix and emulated in windows..the database are flat file..however this flat file cannot be access thru unix.
the process is like this
hospital software >>>unix>>>emulated in windows

it would be easier if i can access the files in unix but i cant for security and it simple does not allow it..

so my only resort is to screen scrap this data from the emulator using any application to retrieve and send data into the emulator...

thanks in advance
Apr 24 '07 #3
Killer42
8,435 Expert 8TB
Phew! Good luck. :)

The only way I can think of that you might be able to get hold of the data in VB would be to "scrape" the screen as an image, and feed that into some kind of OCR software. Unless the emulation provides some sort of automation interface which your VB code could work with.

You might do better to look for an existing product to handle this kind of thing.

A couple of thoughts...
  • If the emulation in Windows can access the file, I'm sure there must be some way Windows can do so.
  • There must be products on the market to handle this kind of conversion without having to do the screen-scrape.
  • If you do have to do it via screen-scraping, there are probably already tools around to do that - possibly written for hackers.
  • This might be a good topic to raise in one or more of the following forums, if you haven't already...
Apr 24 '07 #4
actually the hospital i am working has one already..but its a compiled program already and i have access to the program nor havent seen it yet..but its there..
the person who created it is from an outsource company that uses some software..but the catch was..this person is such an asshole and does not want to share it.. when i found out that he got the procedure from the net too..
hahahhaa
thanks for your effort..i am still searching for it..for almost 2 weeks now...
I need this one badly for data migration and development..
no matter what programming language it will be..
thanks again
Apr 26 '07 #5
Killer42
8,435 Expert 8TB
Have you tried searching for the product by name? For that matter, what is the name? Perhaps someone will have heard of it.
I probably should throw this to the miscellaneous technical discussion forum, as you should find a much wider audience there. What do you think?
Apr 26 '07 #6
really you could do that?
its qdx screen rejuvenator..and the other one was pctohost.
i am trying to avoid 3rd party commercial software..
both are emulator with screen scraping capability but i have no idea to retrieve the values directly...but you are there should be some hacker tools that can do this..specially screen capture and complete control..but which one?
Apr 26 '07 #7
Killer42
8,435 Expert 8TB
really you could do that?
Just watch me... 8-)

(Now that it's in Miscellaneous Discussions, if we need any Moderator-type help like this again we'll have to have a word to the Moderator over here.)
Apr 26 '07 #8

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