How easy it it to program for Windows with GUI ScreenIO?
One of the more interesting challenges of the development effort was to make GUI ScreenIO as feature-rich as possible while simplifying the programming interface. The fact that GUI ScreenIO, a true Windows interface, is easier to use than its DOS ScreenIO ancestor shows that we succeeded. Much of the simplicity of GUI ScreenIO’s programming interface is due to our COBOL application programming background; we really understand what COBOL programmers want in a GUI tool. Much of the interface design is directed toward eliminating the need for external copybooks (you don’t need any) or knowing obscure data values (you don’t need to know any) in order to use all of GUI ScreenIO’s features. We did this by generating 88-level items to provide the values you need, which eliminates the clutter of unneeded values and makes your panels self-documenting to a large extent. It works great! It’s remarkably easy to use GUI ScreenIO. Unbelievably easy, in fact. It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen in a t
