GUI ScreenIO for Windows

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Getting Started with GUI ScreenIO

Once you've installed GUI ScreenIO on your system, you need to do 4 simple things before you can use it.

1 Set up your GUI ScreenIO profile

The panel editor uses an application profile to set the defaults you wish to use when you create a new panel, and to specify the locations where your panels will be stored.

2 Customize GS.COB for your compiler

The GUI ScreenIO runtime DLL will work with virtually any 32-bit COBOL compiler.  We handle this by providing an intermediate COBOL module, GS.COB, that lets your compiler call the GUI ScreenIO runtime DLL.

Modify and compile GS.COB.

3 Compile and test your first GUI ScreenIO application

We've provided a sample application for you to study and compile.  Once you've successfully compiled and test it, you're ready to begin using GUI ScreenIO.

View the sample GUI ScreenIO application.

4 Start Development

Remember that each application must start with a MAIN panel.  This is the container in which your application "lives".  The main must be the first panel called by your application.  

If you are converting a Legacy ScreenIO application, use the conversion utility, and remember to add a Main panel to your application's main program.

For new development, consider using our Code Generator, to create consistent programs.  It gets you over the writers block.