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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!scifi!watson!
- From: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
- Subject: Workplace Shell Aware (was Re: AmiPro for OS/2 )
- Sender: @watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.145727.57198@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 14:57:27 GMT
- News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
- Lines: 39
- Reply-To: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
- References: <2b63c878@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org> <1993Jan25.180453.18862@wam.umd.edu>
- Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research
-
- In <1993Jan25.180453.18862@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >>I personally asked the product manager for Ami Pro if it would use
- >>Mirrors and his reply was that it would not. Workplace Shell aware
- >>means that it implements drag-and-drop functionality for things like
- >>printing and file loading. For example, as I recall you can drag a
- >>document onto the printer and it will be printed by Ami Pro.
- >
- >
- > Big whoo. In other words, "Workplace Shell Aware"
- > is the new OS/2-speak for applications that support the
- > OS/2 equivalent of drag and drop. A buzzword with very limited
- > usefulness.
- >
-
- Workplace Shell aware is significantly more than Drag-and-Drop. For an
- application to use it to the fullest capabilities, you can use the drag and drop
- to call your program to format and generate the print data, instead of just
- printing an output file. You can also drag and drop to any object and have
- that object call a specific formatting routine in your product (for example a
- Fax application could have a word processing document dropped on it, pop up a
- window asking for the destination, then call the WP program's print routine to
- print the job, than take that output and Fax it.
-
- WPS aware programs also use templates to allow you to customize the information
- about an object (if you need more than what is provided by the standard data
- object). Your program can also have a default association set up within it
- to use the File Type attribute, instead of the extension. It also has all of
- the object-oriented capabilities provided for by the System Object Model.
-
- As for file loading, the associations allow you to just click on the data - the
- program will be loaded automatically. You don't have to search for the program
- object (or icon), then have to call File ... Open ... to get a file dialog and
- search for your data.
-
- Cliff Nadler
- IBM Federal Systems Company
-
- Note: This post represents the views of the poster, not those of IBM or the
- IBM Federal Systems Company
-