Specify the area of the host terminal

To specify the area of the host screen that you want to capture, type the row and column coordinates of the text area into the Row and Column fields on the Extract action window.

The macro runtime interprets the values differently depending on whether the Continuous Extract option is set to false or true (see Set the Continuous Extract option).

Type the first set of row and column coordinates into the first pair of Row and Column values (labeled Top Corner on the Extract action window) and type the second set of coordinates into the second pair of Row and Column values (labeled Bottom Corner). You can use the text cursor on the host screen as an aid to determine the coordinates that you want.

In the Row (Bottom Corner) input field you can enter -1 to signify the last row of the data area on the host screen. This feature is helpful if your users work with host screens of different heights (such as 25, 43, 50) and you want to capture data down to the last row. Similarly for the Column (Bottom Corner) input field you can enter -1 to signify the last column of the data on the host screen (see Significance of a negative value for a row or column).