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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Help for the WPS Object WPS 2 PC/2 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
WPS 2 PC/2 for
PC/2 - Program Commander/2 Version 2.10
for IBM OS/2 2.x, WARP, WARP Srv. SMP Presentation Manager
Copyright (C) by Roman Stangl July, 1999
Please select one of the following topics for further information:
<About the utility PC/2>
<Using PC/2 as a WPS addon>
<Help for PC/2 window>
<PC/2 Survey>
Note: PC/2 is part of the PC/2 package, for further information about PC/2
select Help from PC/2 itself.
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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. Help for About WPS 2 PC/2 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
WPS 2 PC/2 for
PC/2 - Program Commander/2 Version 2.10
for IBM OS/2 2.x, WARP, WARP Srv. SMP Presentation Manager
Copyright (C) by Roman Stangl July, 1999
E-Mail:
InterNet (preferred):
- Roman_Stangl@at.ibm.com (preferred) (or alias 61821799@at.ibm.com)
- warpguru@geocities.com
- warpguru@stangl.austria.ibm.com
- rstangl@vnet.ibm.com
Lotus Notes: Roman Stangl/Austria/IBM@IBMAT (IBM Internal)
WWW:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/7885/
http://stangl.austria.ibm.com/ (IBM Internal)
The PC/2 package (consisting of the OS/2 PM application PC/2 and the WPS
program Object WPS 2 PC/2) is classified as Freeware. Under the copyright, you
are allowed and encouraged to freely use, distribute or modify this program
under the following conditions:
The complete source code and all executables must be included. This rule
also applies for any modifications/recompilations you've made. Just drop
me a short note describing the changes.
You may only charge for the costs of duplicating. Distribution on
InterNet, FidoNet or similar is preferred. Therefore, this program must
not be sold by immoral "Public Domain & ShareWare" dealers that charge a
price way over the actual duplication costs.
Any commercial use is prohibited without contacting me beforehand, except
for incorporating the concept or code in any future release of OS/2 by
IBM. This however this clause doesn't apply to individual private use.
You don't want to port this utility to MS Windows, Windows NT (Nice Try),
Windows 95, or Windows97 oops Windows98 (it's late again and still sucks
;-).
You are encouraged to upload this utility to your favorite file-server or BBS.
Please doublecheck that no file from this archive is missing, if you change
the archive to a different compression scheme. Please retain the same name,
regardless of the compression method you use. PC/2's archive is named
PC2vxyy.ZIP, where x is the major and yy the minor version, e.g. 210 for
version 2.10 (PC2v210.ZIP).
If you find this program useful and want to honor many many months of work
writing this utility, you are welcome to send me a small donation of about 50
to 150 Austrian Schillings (about 5 to 15 dollars) to my home address. I'm
interested in any feedback (goodies or badies) of PC/2, so I would ask you to
fill in the <PC/2 Survey>. At least I would ask you to do your best to
convince, as many as possible, Windows users and vendors to support OS/2. Of
course you don't need to pay again, when a new release of PC/2 comes out.
Please send any donations in cash - it is a lot of trouble to work with
foreign money orders or equivalent, here in Austria, plus the banks charge an
arm and a leg!
Suggestions are welcome. Because of the Freeware status of PC/2 I am not going
to send new versions or anything else by mail (which is likely to become a
never ending story), however I try to do my best to do support via E-Mail. As
my time is limited, contributors' get priority treatment.
Thanks to all those people who sent me proposals and bug reports to improve
this utility! Special thanks to Alex Stewart, Carrick von Schoultz and Markus
Hof, Frank Schroeder, Ingo Pflanz, Jason Shannon, Joe Hartman Mario Semo, Max
Mikhanosha Michael Wakunda, Monte Copeland, Peter Fitzsimmons, Robert Mahoney,
Roland Emmerich, Rolf Knebel, Roman Fischer, Stefan Hora, who gave me advice,
source code, valuable hints, or other support to improve PC/2. Special thanks
also to Adam Todd Bradley, Alessandro Cantatore, Andrea Resmini, BjФrn-Erik
Wenz, Chris Green, Christian Kraemer, David Grasner, Don Eitner, Gianluca
Della Vedova, Gordon Barnard, Hung Kang, Jean-Bernard Clerin, Jeff Blakley,
Jim Read, Joaquim Homrighausen, Joel Swartz, Joerg Tiemann, John Bacas, Larry
Seah, Marcus Sommer, Martin Cooney, Michael Grigutsch, Michael Taylor, Paul
Allen, Paul Gazo, Paul Marwick, Peter Moylan, Petr Mikulik, Radek Pavelka,
Reinhard Giesen, Ron Klein, Sorin Srbu, Steve Winter, Tero Kilkanen, Terry
Bayne, Zephyr Q, and others for their invalueable feedback during beta testing
2.xx.
Special thanks to Andrew Zabolotny for giving me the source code the greatly
enhance the Overview window (and some bug fixes and corrected type
conversions).
Also, thanks to anyone who makes "undocumented" information available, too!
My home address is:
Roman Stangl
Strebersdorferstrasse 46
A-2103 Langenzersdorf, Austria
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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. General Help for WPS 2 PC/2 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
PC/2 is a WPS program that can be used as an interface between the Workplace
Shell and PC/2. Because information about WPS Objects is not available for
programs not running in the WPS's address space, PC/2 was developed:
to run within the WPS's address space to be able to access detailed
information about WPS Objects
to exchange the extracted detailed information with PC/2 by using Drag'n
Drop
to use the information extracted from the WPS by creating menuitems for
PC/2's Popup Menu
To extract information from the WPS for use within PC/2, just drag any WPS
Object or Objects onto the icon of the WPS 2 PC/2 Object on your Desktop.
Alternatively, you can also drop the WPS Objects onto the client area of the
WPS 2 PC/2 window, e.g. the suitcase will work. PC/2 will immediately extract
detailed information about the WPS Objects dropped. PC/2 allows you to extract
WPS Objects of classes WPProgram, WPFolder, any other WPS Object that has an
Object ID defined, or WPShadow Objects of the previously mentioned classes. If
the WPS Object is of classes WPProgram or WPFolder and has an Object ID
defined additionally, the Object ID will be ignored, because using the Object
ID requires the WPS running to launch them, when selecting them from PC/2's
Popup Menu.
You can then create Menuitems for PC/2's Popup Menu by dragging from the
Status bitmap from WPS 2 PC/2's window to the Setup dialog of PC/2.
This allows you to use the same settings of your WPS Objects within PC/2's
Popup Menu without entering them twice. Imagine your favorite application
installs a folder containing programs with complicated settings onto the WPS.
To use your favorite application within PC/2's Popup Menu too, just extract
its folder by dragging it onto WPS 2 PC/2's icon, and then drag the extracted
data from WPS 2 PC/2's window to PC/2's Setup dialog. Voila - your favorite
application is available from PC/2 too, its that easy!
When importing the parameters of WPS Objects, PC/2 does remove parameters
which make only sense withing the WPS (due to the WPS's object oriented design
which does not apply to PC/2's Popup Menu). These parameters in detail are: %,
%*, %**P, %**D, %**N, %**F and %**F, however [...], to query commandline
parameters at run-time, will be migrated. You can find more information about
the WPS specific parameters in the context help for Parameters of WPS Objects,
just open a WPS Object, position the input focus at the Parameters entryfield
and press F1 to display the context help.
(PC/2's icon) For more information about PC/2 just start PC/2 and either
select Help or press F1. PC/2 and PC/2 are both installed by
PC/2's installation program. You can rerun the installation, if
PC/2 is missing.
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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. Help for WPS 2 PC/2 window ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The PC/2 window is the window of the PC/2 WPS Object that reflects the status
of extracting detailed information about WPS Objects for use within PC/2.
This window consists of the following parts:
Part: Description:
WPS Objects extracted This listbox contains the title of all WPS Objects that
have been extracted by dragging them onto the icon of PC/2 up to
now. If this listbox is empty, you haven't dropped any WPS Objects
yet.
Status
(Status empty) If the Empty "Suitcase" Status bitmap is
displayed, you haven't dropped any WPS Objects
onto the icon or the window's client area of WPS
2 PC/2 yet. You may also notice that this bitmap
always corresponds to an empty WPS Objects
extracted listbox.
(Status filled)
If the filled status bitmap is displayed, you've
already dropped at least one WPS Object onto the
icon or the window's client area of WPS 2 PC/2.
You may also notice that this bitmap always
corresponds to at least one entry in the WPS
Objects extracted listbox.
Only when the suitcase filled status appears, you
can drag the extracted information into PC/2's
Setup dialog. Move the pointer onto this bitmap
and just drag the bitmap onto the listbox of
PC/2's setup dialog. Immediately after dropping
the bitmap, the information extracted from the
WPS Objects is converted to Popup Menu menuitems
by PC/2.
After successfully finishing the Drag'n Drop
operation, WPS 2 PC/2 clears itself, being ready
to extract further WPS Objects.
Clear By selecting this button, PC/2 clears itself, being ready to
extract WPS Objects. You may use this button, if you have
extracted one or more WPS Objects by mistake.
Help Press the Help button to display the help page you are currently
reading.
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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5. PC/2 Survey ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
PC/2 is Freeware, but I would like to hear from you to get some feedback about
the goodies and badies of PC/2, so please E-mail me the PC/2 Survey, which can
be found in the directory you installed PC/2 into.
Please load the PC/2 Survey Survey.doc into your favourite editor, fill in the
questionaire and E-mail it back to me.