Hi all, since I used first time opencobol I thought it was a great and powerful product and
just to help (I hope I did...) the cobol comunity I wrote the tp-cobol-debugger
that I hope someone has tried and used for development.

But going ahead I realized the OpenCobol has absolutely need to work also with a gui and just
to have some ideas I looked at GTK and other gui library utilities.

After some test I decided to use GTK library and I started
to project a opencobol gui integrated environment.


I opted for the use of object orientation syntax and I wrote some (sucessfull) test.


the goal of the produc it giving a wysiwyg editor to write cobol with gui objects.

and start with a form giving the programmer the opportunity to paint gui objects and write cobol
procedures with the event using a simple grammar.

this is an example:




this example open a form ..just put the "test form" for windows title and when the customer clicked
the closed "x" it shows... just leaving and close the windows form.


the property are simple accessible using the move and the name into the ".
the invoke use the ooc sintax also



The environment I am using it running on unix also so I think the product will be used with unix or linux

Actually I wrote the class preprocesso and I am becoing to prepare the editor and ide.

I would like to open the cobol sources by using a good (and callable) editor able to view the cobol sintax
during the editing...
I am looking for some opensource products

Has someone found one that I could use/try ?

Thanks for your attention.

Federico