What user interface (UI) features are not supported by isCOBOL Evolve? [-]The isCOBOL Compiler supports the oldest and the newest COBOL syntax for user interfaces, including ANSI and later variations of text-mode ACCEPT and DISPLAY, screen sections with FROM, TO and USING fields, and a full range of graphical windows and controls. There is support for user interfaces originally written for dumb terminals, terminal emulators, and character-based consoles, as well as for graphical systems. The isCOBOL application user interface (UI) is fully portable, whether graphical or text-mode.
The UI can run on any front-end machine that supports Java or X Windows. This includes Windows PCs, Macs, Linux/UNIX desktops, diskless and data less thin clients, X terminals and other virtual display clients such as Sun Ray, handheld devices, and more.
ActiveX is not supported the same way with the isCOBOL Compiler as with other COBOLs. isCOBOL Evolve supports object-orientated COBOL syntax, and when you are talking to objects such as with COM, OLE and ActiveX, it may be more natural to use object syntax. The isCOBOL Compiler produces pure Java code. To use COM, OLE or ActiveX objects with a Java-based program you need to use a third party product such as ComfyJ from TeamDev, Ltd. to generate wrapper classes to expose those objects to Java.
Support for an actual hardware dumb terminal will depend on the specifics of your application.
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