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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 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.
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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 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
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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:
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.
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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 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.
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