Forum Post: RE: OO COBOL
Hi Paul, I would definitely recommend that you look more closely at the Visual COBOL product as the Object COBOL product has not been supported in like 15+ years. Object COBOL was released prior to the...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Theoretically possible to program statistical animation in...
Of course it's theoretically possible. COBOL is a Turing-complete language, and MF COBOL can call entry points using the standard ABIs on the platforms it's supported on; so it can 1) compute any...
View ArticleForum Post: Binding to a Data Source when designing a Windows Form.
I cannot see a way to do this in Visual Cobol 4.0 ( ie select fields from a database to bind to a text box or datagrid etc. in a Form.) I know I can do this with code (I found several examples in the...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: OO COBOL
Chris You are correct, of course. I had forgotten that Object COBOL only had some support for the earlier OO Standard. Thanks.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Theoretically possible to program statistical animation in...
Could you steer me to a simple COBOL program that opens a window and draws a simple shape, so I can see how it's done? Thanks
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Theoretically possible to program statistical animation in...
I'm afraid I don't have a suitable example, and don't have time right now to create one.
View ArticleForum Post: I want a new Translate C# to Cobol
C# for Cobol so I managed / C# para Cobol assim eu consegui public class RootObject { public List ctes { get; set; } } Here in Cobol / Aqui em Cobol class-id RootObject. 01 ctes list[type classCte]...
View ArticleForum Post: Visual Cobol - process xml file
Hi, I'm trying to use Visual Cobol to process the sample program readxml.cbl. It uses 2 copy modules acucobol.def and acugui.def which don't seem to be available under the Visual Cobol installation. I...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: I want a new Translate C# to Cobol
It would be converted using the same approach. When using a predefined type like string or list you do not need to specify the keyword "type". If it is not a predefined type then you do. class-id...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Visual Cobol - process xml file
Where did you find this sample program readxml.cbl? What you are describing appears to be related to the ACU Extend COBOL product which is completely different than Visual COBOL. In Visual COBOL there...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: I want a new Translate C# to Cobol
Nós no Brasil temos um termo para agradecer mas você não entenderia, como uma forma amistosa de falar, cara muito obrigado, salvou meu dia! We in Brazil have a term to thank you but you would not...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Visual Cobol - process xml file
Thanks Chris. The sample program came up in a Google search and is found on the MicroFocus website. It is the only meaningful example I've been able to find so far.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Visual Cobol - process xml file
I can't find the Samples Browser, assume it's buried deep somewhere. Will keep looking.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Visual Cobol - process xml file
Found the samples. Will check them out.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: New Forums
The new website has not been activated yet. When it does become active later this week you can find the COBOL forums listed under their various product names, such as Visual COBOL, under the main...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: MBP Visual Cobol
If you are really referring to the mbp Visual COBOL product which was developed and released back in the 1990's then the answer is yes you can connect to a SQL database but the only method to do so was...
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