The Screen editor

In this editor, you enter all the characteristics of a Screen.

Note: To indicate work areas, you must use micropatterns directly in the generated COBOL file.
You can simulate a Screen to check the positions and characteristics of its fields and labels as they will be displayed when the transaction is run. From a Screen whose design editor is opened and selected, click one of the following icons in the toolbar to open the simulation:
  • Open the emulator on the selected Screen to see the simulation with the color attributes that are indicated on the Definition tab of the Screen.
  • Open the emulator on the selected Screen with colors to see the simulation without the color attributes that are indicated on the Definition tab of the Screen.
The colors are recognized in the internal emulator of the Software Delivery Platform, which is the default emulator. It is displayed in the Screen Emulator view, which opens when you click one of the two icons. The size of the simulation screen in this view is automatically computed from the field positions that are indicated in the Screen -CE Lines tab. Only the following sizes are possible: 24x80, 32x80, 43x80, and 27x132. Simulation-related preferences are available from Window > Preferences > Pattern Driven Programming > Pattern Driven Programming. With these preferences, you can specify a listening port number and force the use of an external emulator for the simulation.
If you add a Data Element in the -CE Lines or change a presentation label, for example, you can see the modification in the Screen emulator by clicking Open the emulator on the selected Screen or Open the emulator on the selected Screen with colors again.
Note: You can link the Screen emulator view with the current Screen by clicking Link with current Screen in the view toolbar. The view or the emulator then listens to the modifications in the -CE Lines and display them simultaneously.

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