═══ 1. Help for the WPS Object WPS 2 PC/2 ═══ WPS 2 PC/2 for PC/2 - Program Commander/2 Version 1.90 for IBM OS/2 2.x, 3.x Presentation Manager Copyright (C) by Roman Stangl May, 1995 Please select one of the following topics for further information: o About the utility PC/2 o Using PC/2 as a WPS addon o Help for PC/2 window Note: PC/2 is part of the PC/2 package, for further information about PC/2 select Help from PC/2 itself. ═══ 2. Help for About WPS 2 PC/2 ═══ WPS 2 PC/2 for PC/2 - Program Commander/2 Version 1.90 for IBM OS/2 2.x, 3.x Presentation Manager Copyright (C) by Roman Stangl May, 1995 E-Mail: o InterNet: rstangl@vnet.ibm.com o IBM VNET: 61821799 at VIEVMA o FidoNet: Roman Stangl @ 2:310/14 LA BAMBA BBS Tel.: (Int. Code +43 +1 +6156811) o FidoNet: Roman Stangl @ IBM Austria National Support BBS Tel.: (Int. Code +43 +1 +21145-6600) 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: o The complete source code and all executables must be included. This rule also applies for any modifications/recompilitions you've made. Just drop me a short note descibing the changes. o 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. o 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. o You don't want to port this utility to MS Windows, Windows NT (Nice Try), or Windows96 (or whatever "Chicago" will be called when it is ready) You are encouraged to upload this utility to your favorite file-server or BBS. Please dooublecheck 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 archive is named PC2vxyy.ZIP, where x is the major and yy the minor version, e.g. 190 for version 1.90 (PC2v190.ZIP). If you find this program useful and want to honor many weeks of work writing this utility, you are welcome to send me a small fee of about 50 to 150 Austrian Schillings (about 5 to 15 dollars) to my home address. 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 Mario Semo, Carrick von Schoultz and Markus Hof, Roman Fischer, Alex Stewart, Ingo Pflanz, Rolf Knebel, Michael Wakunda, Stefan Hora, Monte Copeland, Roland Emmerich and Joe Hartman (thanks Joe, without your support, PC/2 and its documentation would not have experienced such a quality improvement) who gave me advice, source code, valuable hints, or other support to improve PC/2 Also, thanks to anyone who makes "undocumented" information available, too! My home address is: Roman Stangl Strebersdorferstrasse 46 A-2103 Langenzersdorf, Austria ═══ 3. General Help for WPS 2 PC/2 ═══ 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: o to run within the WPS's address space to be able to access detailed information about WPS Objects o to exchange the extracted detailed information with PC/2 by using Drag'n Drop o 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 PC/2 WPS Object on the Desktop. PC/2 will immediately extract detailed information about the WPS Objects dropped. PC/2 allows you to extract WPS Object 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 on 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 PC/2's icon, and then drag the extracted data from PC/2's window to PC/2's Setup dialog. Voila - your favorite application is available from PC/2 too, its that easy! (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. ═══ 4. Help for WPS 2 PC/2 window ═══ 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 of 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 of 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, 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.