PowerCOBOL applications are essentially combinations of objects, where objects are collections of properties, methods and events with particular behaviors.
Controls and forms are special types of objects but the PowerCOBOL design is such that you never need to refer to controls or forms as objects. Because the Form is not a control on the control bar, the PowerCOBOL reference describes a Form as an object, otherwise using and referencing forms is much like using and referencing controls.
The other items described as objects - Button, Column, Font, ListItem and Node - can be referenced as objects of classes. This section describes how you do this. When this section refers to PowerCOBOL objects it means one of the above objects, excluding the Form object.
