These days you often find end users to have more than one monitor for one reason or another. If you need your application to leverage all the monitor space available on many monitors instead of just crunching all the windows on a single default... Read More
User Interface
Starting from the 2016R1 release, isCOBOL support the ACCORDION control using a specific style for the TAB-CONTROL. This layout can be activated with the new style named ACCORDION, it is useful to groups some controls that will be visible only when... Read More
You can make this with the property PLACEHOLDER. This property shows an hint inside the control when the field is empty. This help in understand which kind of info type in the editing field. The following example shows how to use the new property... Read More
You can make this using the property BORDER-COLOR in all controls with borders. This property, supported on all controls that have the border when BOXED style is set. It supports all cobol color values and also RGB colors. The following example... Read More
When a Grid resource (row, column or cell) has to be protected from editing, it's normal practice to 1. 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 make this you can use the label control with the title in an HTML code. For example string '<html><img src="file:' delimited by size path-gif delimited by trailing space '"></img><... Read More
With isCOBOL it is possible to set a different default color for the read-only entry-fields through the framework property: iscobol.gui.entryfield.read_only_color=value It can be set to a single value in order to specify a combined color or to two... 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
Please add the style No-Msg-Before-Navigate to your web-browser control.. This style prevents the generation of the MSG-BEFORE-NAVIGATE event and it is useful in that cases: - the web site that you’re navigating must send data thru POST (e.g. a... Read More
Since double click on grid cells make you edit the cell value, the event returned for double click is MSG-BEGIN-ENTRY. During this event, you can inquire the ENTRY-REASON property in order to distinguish if double click used to edit the cell. if... Read More