Programmer's Guide to Creating User Interfaces

Table of Contents

Index

Chapter 20: Using Panels Version 2

• 20.1 Introduction
  • 20.1.1 How Can Panels V2 Work for You?
    • 20.1.1.1 Ease of Use
    • 20.1.1.2 Portability
    • 20.1.1.3 Choice of GUI Style
  • 20.1.2 GUI Programming Options
    • 20.1.2.1 API Programming
    • 20.1.2.2 Panels V2
    • 20.1.2.3 Dialog System
    • 20.1.2.4 Dialog System and Panels V2
    • 20.1.2.5 Summary
  • 20.1.3 Choosing the Right Option
• 20.2 Panels V2 Concepts
  • 20.2.1 The Graphical User Interface
    • 20.2.1.1 Windows
      • 20.2.1.1.1 What They Are and Why They Are Used
    • 20.2.1.2 Primary, Secondary and Child Windows
      • 20.2.1.2.1 Clipping
    • 20.2.1.3 Manipulating Windows
    • 20.2.1.4 Dialog Boxes
  • 20.2.2 Message Boxes
  • 20.2.3 Mouse Actions
    • 20.2.3.1 Selecting
    • 20.2.3.2 Scrolling
    • 20.2.3.3 The Menu Bar
    • 20.2.3.4 Pulldown Menus
    • 20.2.3.5 Overview of Gadgets
      • 20.2.3.5.1 Check Boxes
      • 20.2.3.5.2 Entry Fields
      • 20.2.3.5.3 Group Boxes
      • 20.2.3.5.4 Labels
      • 20.2.3.5.5 List Boxes
      • 20.2.3.5.6 Multiple-line Entry Fields
      • 20.2.3.5.7 Pushbuttons
      • 20.2.3.5.8 Radio Buttons
      • 20.2.3.5.9 Scroll Bars
      • 20.2.3.5.10 Selection Boxes
    • 20.2.3.6 Developing a GUI Application
  • 20.2.4 Structure of a Panels V2 Program
  • 20.2.5 Panels V2 Events
    • 20.2.5.1 Finding Out What Has Happened
    • 20.2.5.2 Event Interrogation Example
    • 20.2.5.3 Example of Event Processing Code
• 20.3 Your First Panels V2 Program
  • 20.3.1 The Panels V2 Call
  • 20.3.2 Information Returned from a Call
  • 20.3.3 Initializing Panels V2
    • 20.3.3.1 Initialization Function
  • 20.3.4 Terminating Panels V2
    • 20.3.4.1 Termination Function
  • 20.3.5 The Sample Program p2hello1.cbl
    • 20.3.5.1 Overview
    • 20.3.5.2 Listing
    • 20.3.5.3 Description of p2hello1