User Interface

Yes! It's easy to design and generate fully graphical screen programs using the WYSIWYG Screen editor in the isCOBOL IDE. The IDE includes several other content editors make your GUI screen design problem free; for example, there are graphical... Read More

When a program requests DEFAULT-FONT... Use the value of iscobol.font.default if it is set If iscobol.font.default is not set then use the value of iscobol.font.medium if it is set If neither iscobol.font.default nor iscobol.font.medium are set... Read More

Question: We are using the same program to run in thin client, a web browser in PC and a web browser on a phone. Will the screen auto resize to fit the browser or do we need to have different programs for each environment? Answer: No, you don&... Read More

To center a window use W$CENTER_WINDOW. Pass the window handle to this library to center the window on the current screen: call "W$CENTER-WINDOW" using windowHandle You can also pass the screen index to center your screen on a different... Read More

This guide discusses the modernization process of a legacy COBOL application with character-based user interface. It demonstrates the necessary steps to transform the character-based user interface into a graphical user interface. The code... Read More

When your GUI application is going to need a large variety of different bitmaps for any kind of GUI control that accepts a bitmap for its icon, you can use font-based bitmaps instead of trying to get different images for each control. Bitmap fonts... Read More

If an isCOBOL program needs to use the current data from the clipboard, and that isCOBOL program has an active screen, it is simple to do using the action-paste action of an entry-field. The basic code to place the data from the Clipboard into an... Read More

Yes, starting with isCOBOL 2019R2, all the isCOBOL GUI, Graphical windows, Screen Programs or isCOBOL WOW programs generated by the IDE can take advantage of an easy to use and low impact layout manager to handle application resizing. Simply by... Read More

One of the many new features of the Graphical User Interface released with version 2018 R1 is the capability to provide to a Window control of Gradient effects. This capability comes as a property of the Window control and has three components:... Read More

The grid allows you to sort dates when the SORTABLE-COLUMN style is set. You have to specify the date-format for the column using DATA-TYPES property. e.g. DATA-TYPES ("D,yyyy-MM-dd") Read More