Descriptions of the actions: AID key, Input, Extract, Insert
This group of topics describes the four actions:
the AID key action, the Input action, the Extract action, and
the Insert action.
Overview of the actions
An action is an operation that is performed as part of the
processing of an application screen.
Overview of creating an action
This topic gives an overview of how actions are created and how
mappings are generated from actions.
AID Key action
An AID Key action generates a specified AID (Attention Identifer)
key and indicates the position of the text cursor on the
application screen when the AID key was generated.
Input action
An Input action types a sequence
of text characters into a specified field of the application screen.
Extract action
An Extract action reads text from a specified field or from a specified
rectangular area of the application screen.
Insert action
The Insert action writes text into a specified field in the current
application screen.