The Eden Screen editor is a full screen BMS map editor for use with Eden Server®. In addition to providing all the basic features required for building and maintaining BMS maps and mapsets, The Eden Screen editor also includes a complete set of tools to allow adding full featured Windows GUI's to your maps.

Using the drag-and-drop WYSIWYG displays in the editor, as shown in the screenshot link below, the average BMS map can be updated to include graphical items such as push buttons, HTML links and a wide variety of other gadgets.

The Edit Tools window is a floating tool window that includes tools and controls for adding and manipulating input-output fields, text constants as well as extended non-field-related GUI gadgets.

The Fields Properties tool window, shown in the screenshot below, includes all standard BMS definitions, plus the ability to enhance fields by displaying them as Combo Boxes, Push Buttons, Radio Buttons or Check Boxes. Complete context sensitive help features also allow built in fields and map help to be saved and integrated into the map.

The Text Properties tool window, provides many of the same features of the Fields Properties window, however only 'constant', output text only fields are configured with the Text window.

The Text Properties window, shown in the screenshot below, also provides the ability to configure text to be displayed only in character mode, allowing for more differentiation and freedom in building GUI displays..

Also provided in the Eden Screen Editor is the ability to add non-field related gadgets to BMS maps. Through using the Extended Properties window, shown in the screenshot below, BMS maps can be enhanced to include Push Button, HTML links, Group Boxes and in version 3.1 (December 2002) Bitmaps.

By allowing the Extended intems added to be non-field related, many screens can be enhanced to provide greatly improved user interfaces, all without changes to the underlying BMS maps or CICS application programs that drive them.