opencobol

Windows GUI Programming with OpenCOBOL?

I'm completely new to COBOL, but I'd like to take a look at the different options for GUI programming on Windows. I don't really like Tcl/Tk, though. Is there some resource for developing a Windows GUI in COBOL in the same manner that one would develop a GUI in C? Thanks! ...

Standard way to remove spaces from input in cobol?

I'm just learning COBOL; I'm writing a program that simply echos back user input. I have defined a variable as: User-Input PIC X(30). Later when I ACCEPT User-Input, then DISPLAY User-Input " plus some extra text", it has a bunch of spaces to fill the 30 characters. Is there a standard way (like Ruby's str.strip!) to remove the extra ...