One of the hardest things to do when coding with COBOL is translating a screen design into code. The process may take hours, not to say days. In my old BLIS-COBOL, COBOL 74 and COBOL 80 /85 days (and those last 2 had the SCREEN SECTION which helped a lot !), I recall spending a significant amount of time dedicated to that activity. Time that could be used for more productive activities like coding and resolving bugs, for instance.
Having said that, I developed a Screen Editor (similar to a Screen Painter, as some tools may call it) which allows the user to create screen layouts (which includes the use of colors) with delimited fields and respective input masks, and finally generate the SCREEN SECTION code that reflects that layout. All of it automatically - no code needed.
The idea came from a program I used to use named EDITEL. I have adapted the concept (it was originally built for BLIS COBOL systems) and created a version that does this for GnuCOBOL and Microfocus COBOL.
Enjoy !

Features

  • Screen Editor with Open/Save/Save As features
  • Allows the user to select 8 foreground and 8 background colors
  • WYSYG interface - what is designed is what you will get in COBOL
  • Turbo Pascal source code is provided (EDITEL.PAS file). I have used TP v7.0 to create it. I have also used DOSBOX Staging in a Mac OS X with no issues
  • No license fee - use is absolutely free of charge or cost
  • Allows the use of data fields (always between brackets [] ) using whatever the mask you want
  • Works with any Operating System as far as you are able to emulate the MS-DOS environment (so you can use it thru DOSBOX, for instance)

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Operating Systems

MS-DOS, Linux, Mac, Windows

Languages

English

Intended Audience

Information Technology, Developers

Programming Language

COBOL, Pascal

Related Categories

COBOL User Interface (UI) Software, COBOL Usability Software, COBOL Programming Languages, Pascal User Interface (UI) Software, Pascal Usability Software, Pascal Programming Languages

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2023-12-08