User Interface

Consider the following situation; a customer develops a graphical program, either using the Screen Painter of the IDE or coding everything by hand. The program contains an Screen with several bitmaps on the push-buttons that are entered as relative... 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

Now it is possible to decide during runtime if some pages will be added or not to a tab control depending on the nature of the data or specific data values you have. And furthermore, you may also dynamically populate such pages with any GUI... 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

The display window syntax has been extended to allow you to use a display notification window in order to display an undecorated window, to notify the user about events that will or are happening on your program. Such window does not require and... 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

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

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