The following restrictions apply when using applications that contain RM/Panels
- No Panel Editor in
Visual COBOL
- The RM/Panels product includes both a runtime and a designer/editor of the panels. The RM/Panels Designer, the application
that enables you to create or modify RM/Panels library files, is not available in
Visual COBOL. However, the RM/COBOL version can still be used to modify the library files.
- No End-User Panel Editor
- In RM/COBOL, you can enable an option to bring up the Panel Editor at run-time. This is not supported in the
Visual COBOL version of RM/Panels.
- Character-based controls only
- On Windows, controls are always character-based. In some versions of RM/COBOL, certain controls could be converted on-the-fly
to Windows controls. This is not supported in the
Visual COBOL version of RM/Panels.
(UNIX versions have never had this feature.)
- Mouse support
- On UNIX platforms, there is no mouse support for RM/Panels applications.
- RM/Panels applications not interchangeable between platforms
- RM/Panels applications designed for Windows are not compatible on UNIX platforms and vice versa. This is because of the difference
in line terminators and line draw characters between the two platforms.
- Panels 2.0 support only
- There were significant changes to the Panels library file between versions 1.0 and 2.0. The
runpan2 program will support the Panels 2.0 library file only. Refer to the
RM/Panels Reference Manual for instruction on converting from version 1.0 to 2.0.