by Micro Focus
Platform:
Windows 98 / XP / 95
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With Visual Object COBOL, Micro Focus has inserted its object COBOL compiler into an integrated development environment. And its IDE looks as robust as many I've seen elsewhere.
One intriguing capability of this product is its support for OLE Automation. You can use Visual Object COBOL to write a program that can control other programs with OLE Automation server capabilities (e.g., Excel). More intriguing: You can use Visual Object COBOL to convert COBOL programs into OLE Automation servers. This means you can bring business logic that's currently written in COBOL into the new world of OLE and componentware.
Visual Object COBOL for Windows will produce 32-bit executables. It can also generate multithreaded applications. Objects within Visual Object COBOL support inheritance (albeit single inheritance), polymorphism, and late bind ing.
Visual Object COBOL arrives with an extensive class library that supports (among other things) all the significant Windows GUI objects: dialog boxes, push buttons, scroll bars, and other controls.