isCOBOL Evolve 2025 Release 1 is now available.
Veryant is pleased to announce the latest release of isCOBOL™ Evolve, isCOBOL Evolve 2025 R1
The newest isCOBOL Evolve adds a new GUI-Control, barcode and QR-code generation, improves debugging and more...
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Release highlights
- SPLIT-PANE GUI control and other enhancements
- Barcode and QR-code generation
- New Compiler capabilities
- Improved debugging
- Other features
SPLIT-PANE GUI control
The new SPLIT-PANE is a control that can be used to divide a screen area into two sections, either horizontally or vertically, and allows the user to resize the panes by dragging a divider.
This component is useful when the User Interface requires two sections, for example a master-details view, and to allow the user to control how much space each section should take up.
The search panel available in controls like grid, list-boxes and tree-view can now be customized and support filtering or searching capabilities.
Barcode and QR-code generation
The isCOBOL Debugger 2025 R1 W$_BITMAP library routing has a new op-code, WBITMAP-BARCODE-BOX, for easy barcode and QR-code generation. It supports several barcode formats, and it generates the barcode in memory, where it can be easily printed or stored to disk.
New Compiler capabilities
The Compiler supports new syntax that allows local variable declaration in a block and improves the declaration of parameters in Method-ID for Object Oriented Programming. Support for generics type parameters make writing flexible and reusable code easier.
The '&' concatenation operator is more flexible and can be used with data-items, method results and resource strings, requiring less code compared to the STRING statement.
Improved debugging
The new 2025 R1 debugger adds support for inline and local variables and improves code navigation using "Go to declaration" and location history.
The output view now displays color-coded error messages, making it easier to identify typos and syntax errors when executing commands.
Other features
The Database Bridge feature have been enhanced to support the DBMaker relational database using both ODBC and JDBC drivers.
The W$PLAYSOUND library routine can use files included in the source code using the COPY RESOURCE statement.
Details on these and additional features can be found in the isCOBOL Evolve 2025
Release 1 Overview
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