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Standard Windows Controls
Controls are Windows elements that are used to display your
data. They encapsulate certain standard behavior and
appearance. GUI ScreenIO presently implements the following
controls.
Most of these controls support standard Windows ToolTips, context
(right-click) menus, Copy/Paste, font and color control, and multiple
language text.
In most cases, you load the data to the control with a simple COBOL
MOVE statement; GUI ScreenIO does the rest. Masking (formatting)
and all of the runtime behavior of these controls are handled
automatically by GUI ScreenIO, based on how you defined the control in
the panel editor. Virtually no programming is necessary on your
part, other than loading data to the control and extracting data from it
when control returns to your program following a screen display.
Controls make your life easy by providing a powerful and attractive
interface with a minimum or work on your part.
Control |
Description |
Checkbox |
Checkboxes are used for unrelated on/off choices. If you
need to make choices mutually exclusive, consider using
radiobuttons.
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Combobox |
A combobox is (usually) a combination of an edit control and
an associated listbox. You can either type your data into
the control directly, or you can select an item from the
associated list.
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Date picker |
GUI ScreenIO handles dates as a variant of an edit
control. One option allows you to get fancy by using a
date picker control:
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Edit control |
Edit controls are the workhorse of just about any
application. They're used to collect and/or display
textual or numeric data.
Edit controls look like this (the part that
contains the text value MY-CHECKBOX). (The label
"COBOL field name" is a static text control, and the
box that surrounds it all is a groupbox.)
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Groupbox |
A groupbox is used to visually group related objects on your
panel. The box entitled "COBOL Field Definition"
surrounding the stuff below is a groupbox.
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Image |
An image control is used to display images. You can also
assign an event ID to an image control that will be returned to
your program if the user clicks on the image, much like a
pushbutton. |
Listbox |
A listbox control is used to display a list of items.
Unlike a combobox (which can be a drop-down list), a listbox is
always the size that you drew it. If the number of entries
in the list will not fit in the space you reserved on your
panel, scrollbars are automatically provided.
A listbox also permits you to select more than
one item, unlike a combobox, which only allows a single
selection.
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Listview |
A listview control can be used to display multiple-column
lists of any size, up to a billion records. They support
grid patterns, full row select, and display content in a popup
ToolTip window if the listview is too narrow to display the
complete content of a column.
Listviews are immensely powerful and still easy
to use.
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Multiline text |
Multiline text controls are a form of edit control that
supports up to 32K bytes of text. |
Progress bar |
A progress bar is a simple bar graph generally used to provide
feedback on the progress of a long-running task.
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Pushbutton |
Pushbuttons are used to send events back to your application.
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Radiobutton |
Radiobuttons are used for mutually exclusive choices.
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Selector |
Selector controls are unique to GUI ScreenIO; they act like a
pushbutton, but the label is loaded as you'd load an edit
control.
They're an easy way to create pushbuttons that
have variable text, as from a file, for example.
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Static text |
Static text may be placed anywhere on your panel. It's
primarily used to label edit controls or to give
instructions.
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Treeview |
Treeview controls are used to display tree structures, such as
subdirectories or any other data that are hierarchical in
nature.
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