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GetCharacters Function (IbmScreen)
Attachmate.Reflection.Objects.Emulation.IbmHosts Library > IbmScreen Object : GetCharacters Function
Row location.
Column location.
Characters length.
Gets ScreenCharacter objects from the specified location, each representing one character at a screen location.
Syntax
object.GetCharacters( _
   ByVal row As Long, _
   ByVal column As Long, _
   ByVal length As Long _
) As _ScreenCharacter()

Parameters

row
Row location.
column
Column location.
length
Characters length.

Return Value

Array of ScreenCharacter on the host screen.
Exceptions
ExceptionDescription
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException This exception is thrown if the row or column parameters are outside the range of valid values: (1 to Rows) or (1 to Columns).
Remarks
The length argument specifies the number of screen bytes to get. In SBCS, the number of screen bytes is the same as that of ScreenCharacter objects. In DBCS, the two numbers can be different. If the last byte is only half of a DBCS character, the last byte is not returned.
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