When developing a graphical screen with bitmaps– either using the screen painter in the isCOBOL IDE are coding by hand – it is common to add bitmaps with a relative path. The bitmaps are found if the program is running in stand-alone mode, but... Read More
User Interface
Starting with Java 11, the Java runtime is DPI-aware by default.On displays configured above 96 DPI (for example 120, 150 or 200 DPI), Java automatically scales UI elements. For standard isCOBOL GUI applications this may result in: resized UI... Read More
You can decide at runtime whether specific pages should be added to a tab control, based on the nature of the data or specific data values. Additionally, you can dynamically populate those pages with any GUI controls you need. For example, if you... Read More
Today, it’s common for users to work with more than one monitor. If your application needs to take advantage multiple screens, rather than limiting windows to a single default monitor, you can use the C$MONITOR library routine. Detecting... Read More
a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } You can use the BORDER-COLOR property on any control that displays a border when the BOXED style is... Read More
a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } You can use the PLACEHOLDER property to display a hint inside the control when its value is empty. This... Read More
a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr... Read More
When a Grid resource (row, column or cell) has to be protected from editing, it's normal practice to1. Assign an event procedure to the Grid (if not yet available),2. Insert the handling of the MSG-BEGIN-ENTRY event,3. Check if the X/Y... Read More
To display a moving image, or .gif, use a label control, assigning a title in HTML code. For example: string '<html><img src="file:' delimited by size path-gif delimited by trailing space '">... Read More
To change the default color of a read-only entry-field you can apply the background-color and foreground-color properties or the color property to combine custom background and foreground colors in the entry-field control's properties. To... Read More