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Old November 14th 04, 09:03 AM
VHarris001
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Default Accessing Table Data in Screen Display Possible?

I use a mapping program put out by the local county GIS department that allows
me to select a large number of properties in a particular order and display the
property data in a table on the screen. I can then print the screen, but there
is no feature to 'export' the data to a file.

I have tried to find a newly created file on the hard disk that might be
temporarily storing the data while it is being displayed, but there doesn't
seem to be a file, so the data must be stored in memory while being displayed.

I'm wondering if there is some way to capture the data that is diplayed on the
screen -- not as a graphics file, but as the actual ascii code that is being
displayed.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, as there are many records that
need to be taken from the display in display order and put into a text file.
If I can just capture the data in the order it is displayed on the screen, that
would mean I could build the new database in short order. But if not, I'll
have to manually key in the data in display order into the database.

Thanks,

V Harris