What are my options if my application depends on ActiveX controls and I want to continue to use those controls when running on Windows?
Answer:
isCOBOL supports Javabean controls in the GUI, and there are a number of solutions for accessing COM/OLE/ActiveX from within a Java-based application.
We have tested and verified the functionality of comfyj which generates java classes to wrap ActiveX objects.
We recommend the Comfyj product because it is more complete and better supported from a technical point of view.
In addition, they charge just for development and not for runtime.
Veryant can provide a side-by-side example of a program that uses a Microsoft COM object with ACUCOBOL syntax and the same program written with isCOBOL and Comfyj.
An ActiveX control in the screen section, when converted to a Javabean, looks similar to the following:
screen section.
01 mask .
03 GR-TEST JAVA-BEAN
LINE 2
COL 2
LINES 28
SIZE 90
ID GR-ID-TEST
VISIBLE 1
ENABLED 1
CLSID "VSFlexGridContainer"
EVENT-LIST ("vsflexgrid")
OBJECT IN FLEXGRID-TEST
EVENT JAVA-BEAN-EVENT
java-bean-event.
if event-type = msg-jb-event
set flex-event-obj to event-obj as activex-event
evaluate event-data-2
when 100
display "FSCommand event: command = "
end-evaluate
else
set flex-event-obj to event-obj as activex-event
end-if.
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