Forum Post: RE: Cobol Program Driving the whole flow
Hi Chris, The main form will open the second form using threading on button 1 click . On button 2 click I will open a 3rd form using thread. so basically my 1st form is having 2 button and 1 text box...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Ctrl in Visual Cobol Eclipse
Hello PM_SSW, It does not appear that you can change the CTRL modifier key used for Go To Definition in the COBOL Editor. I am checking to confirm whether this is possible.
View ArticleForum Post: Question or Issue with generated Directives file - Managed...
Either there is an issue with generating the dir file ... or I have a question related to the intended behavior when generating the dir file and the subsequent use of the COBOL command to generate the...
View ArticleForum Post: VC Not Playing Well With Others
I'm trying to call a DLL that I wrote in C# from a GNT called from a native COBOL program. The call is failing with "Server defined OLE exception" (800401F3): Invalid class string...." Now, from...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Ctrl in Visual Cobol Eclipse
I've confirmed that Visual COBOL for Eclipse does not currently provide the ability to configure the modifier key used for Go To Definition in the COBOL Editor. Thank you for pointing this out; I'm...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Wait Cursor
set type Cursor::Current to type Cursors::WaitCursor to set it back set type Cursor::Current to type Cursors::Default
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Question or Issue with generated Directives file - Managed...
The generated dir file is really just an informative file that will show you which directives are used when building the project using Visual Studio. You can use this .dir file anyway that you see fit...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Global Variables in VISUAL COBOL
You can store the object in the Base class by defining it as an external item in both Base class and in Layer example: 01 anInstance object reference external. This data item will then be referring...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: ListView with WPF in Visual Cobol
You can use the event SelectionChanged to find out what the current selected value is either by its index number within the ListView or you can retrieve the selected item into an object of the same...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: VC Not Playing Well With Others
Your copybooks are missing from the zip but the first thing I immediately noticed is that you are defining the COM class name incorrectly in the .gnt program. In program1.cbl: COMPRESSOR IS CLASS...
View ArticleWiki Page: Scope of inline usage of IDXFORMAT.
Problem What happens with IDXFORMAT when combining its usages and using it as a compile time directive. as an inline directive. it inside a file handler configuration file. Resolution This is a...
View ArticleWiki Page: UNIX terminal escape sequences.
Problem The terminal emulation software escape key sequence does not match the UNIX TERMINFO escape sequence. How do you identify the escape key sequence to use in a TERMINFO file for a particular key...
View ArticleForum Post: check if file exists
How can I use the File.Exists(filename) statement of VB.Net to Visual Cobol?
View ArticleForum Post: RE: check if file exists
* Test if File exists declare TestFile as string. set TestFile to "c:\temp\testtext.txt" if type System.IO.File::Exists(TestFile) display...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: VC Not Playing Well With Others
Chris - Thanks for helping out. I must've looked at that 50 times, and I had someone else look at it and neither of us caught that. Sometimes the answer is tricky to find, sometimes it's right under...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Use of Clipboard
Generally you can call any .Net function. An example: invoke type System.Windows.Clipboard::SetDataObject(type DateTime::Now::ToLongTimeString()). * Copy Time to Clipboard...
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