Graphical mode rendering

The Graphical User Interface (GUI) mode displays applications on desktop workstation, web browsers and mobile front-end platforms. The graphical mode supports native, universal, and traditional rendering modes.

Native rendering

Native rendering provides a graphical look and feel based on platform GUI widgets, for desktop workstation and mobile front-end platforms. Native Rendering is the default, so you do not need any additional setup.

For further details, see Graphical mode with Native Rendering in the Genero Business Development Language User Guide.

Universal rendering

Universal rendering provides a common rendering solution which unifies the display of applications on all Genero front-ends. Select Tools > Genero Configurations and select the Universal Rendering environment set.

If you have customized the GBC, edit the GBC_USER_DIR and GBC_USER environment variables to point to the customized build. For example, if the customization is in C:\Work\MyFiles\MyCustomGBC\sample, set GBC_USER_DIR to C:\Work\MyFiles\MyCustomGBC and GBC_USER to sample.

Note: The GBC_USER_DIR directory must contain a runtime zip with the same name as GBC_USER, for example C:\Work\MyFiles\MyCustomGBC\sample.zip.

Note: If you modify GBC_USER_DIR, you need to restart the GAS.

For further details, see Graphical mode with Universal Rendering in the Genero Business Development Language User Guide.

Traditional rendering

Traditional rendering renders all application windows in a single front-end GUI window. It is used to ease migration from TUI-based applications to GUI mode. Select Tools > Genero Configurations and select the Traditional Rendering environment set.

For further details, see Graphical mode with Traditional Display in the Genero Business Development Language User Guide.