Eugenio Di Lorenzo

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I think that the topic of this post deserves to be treated in depth. In my opinion, clarity is needed. I'll try to explain with some example. For the development of TUI interfaces, some features are practically necessary. For example, on a 25x80 screen, it is necessary to be able to display message windows to the user, for example, with a size of 10x40. This feature is necessary for a developer who uses the "standard" version of the GnuCOBOL compiler. The developer in this example does not want to...

Thanks for the detailed answer. Although I can't understand some technical details, what I think I understood is that: * CBL_GC_WINDOW is not compatible with future variations * GnuCOBOL will support some instructions, typical of RM/COBOL and AcuCOBOL-GT compilers, that in fact correspond to the same functionality of CBL_GC_WINDOW * these new releases are close in time (will they be in GnuCOBOL 3.3 by the end of 2024?), (it's not clear to me if something is already available now)

Hi, in my opinion this is not good news. In the development of TUI interfaces it is essential to be able to display pop-up windows. For error messages for choice messages etc etc. So far we have been forced to: - save the entire screen to a temporary file (using the "DUMP" function) - display a window-shaped message with some DISPLAY - restore the entire screen by re-reading the temporary file - delete the temporary file The new function developed by Chuck simplifies all this and provides GnuCOBOL...

Missing info for internal registers

Missing info for internal registers

Thank you, you are very kind. However I think some other indications would be useful. I have read something to document myself but I have no clear ideas. As an example : Which folders should be created and which folders should be used for an application like this? (eg the cgibin folder where to put the GnuCOBOL executables ? ... in this folder should all the GnuCOBOL libraries also be put?) To run the application where do you start? Do you open an HTML page directly ? The powershell script that is...