GUI ScreenIO for
Windows|
GUI ScreenIO for
Windows |
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.)
There are several different variants of edit controls, depending upon the type of data they are to be used for.
| Type of Data | Used for: |
| Date | Dates; this field type performs additional validation of dates, plus you can use fancy stuff like a date-time picker popup calendar. |
| Hexadecimal | Hexadecimal data. |
| Non-numeric | Other types of data, which need not be alphanumeric. |
| Numeric | Numbers that are quantitative; counters, currency, amounts,
etc.
Do NOT use this field type for non-quantitative data such as telephone numbers. |
| Symbol-numeric | ONLY for numbers that are not quantitative: credit
cards, telephone numbers, Social Security numbers, ZIP codes,
etc.
Do NOT use this field type for quantitative data, such as monetary amounts. |
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