Larry Salomon Jr.
From EDM2
Larry Salomon, Jr. was an OS/2 applications developer from version 1.1 in 1989 until OS/2 Warp in 1997. He wrote numerous applications, including the Scramble applet that was included in OS/2 versions 2.0-2.11, and the I-Brow, Magnify, and Screen Capture trio that was distributed on numerous CD-ROMs.
Larry is also the coauthor of the successful book, The Art of OS/2 Warp Programming (John Wiley & Sons) and was the publisher and editor-in-chief of EDM/2 from issue 1-04 to 4-07.
- Seminars
- Printing from Within an Application (1991)
Contents
Articles
From the Editor
- 1993: Jul/Aug/Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
- 1994: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
- 1995: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Aug, Sep, Nov, Dec
- 1996: Jan, Feb, Mar, May, Jun, Jul, Aug
Questions and Answers
Larry has written the following articles:
- Introduction to PM Programming (1993-1995)
- A new intro, Events, Resources and Handles (December 1993)
- Basic concepts and components of a simple app (January 1994)
- The window procedure (February 1994)
- Dialog boxes and resource files (March 1994)
- Tdialog procedures and its controls (April 1994)
- The dialog procedure continued and the first window class (WC_ENTRYFIELD) (May 1994)
- WC_ENTRYFIELD cont., it's messages and associated concepts (June 1994)
- WC_LISTBOX class, its use, limitations and messages(some) (July 1994)
- nameDlgProc() and Listboxes (September 1994)
- WC_BUTTON class (October 1994)
- Ownerdrawn control and Button control (November 1994)
- WC_LISTBOX class (December 1994)
- Ownerdrawn capabilities of the WC_LISTBOX class. (January 1995)
- WC_TITLEBAR and WC_STATIC classes (February 1995)
- WC_MENU class (April1995)
- WC_MENU class continued (May 1995)
- A sample app. with a menu control (June 1995)
- Popup Menus, interacting messages for the menu control and neat possibilities for menus (September 1995)
- WC_SCROLLBAR class (March 1994)
- The use of scrollbars in an application (December 1995)
- The slider classes (February 1996)
- The Design and Implementation of VIOWIN
- Programming the Container Control
- Development of a New Window Class
- The Help Manager and Online Documentation (Oct 1993)
- Threads in PM Applications (Nov 1993)
- Writing a Direct Manipulation Spy (Dec 1993)
- Utilizing Hooks for Added Capabilities (Jan 1994)
- Sprites and Animation (May-Jul 1994)
- Sprites and Animation Part 1 (May 1994)
- Sprites and Animation Part 2 (May 1994)
- Sprites and Animation Part 3 (Jul 1994)
- Sprites and Animation Part 4
- Coding for Dollars: Copy Protection and Prevention (Dec 1994)
- Watermarking Your Printouts (Jul 1996)
Software
- Common/2
- IPFC Preprocessor (ipfcpp.zip)
- Image Toolkit for OS/2 (imgtkit2.zip)
- Screen Magnifier (magnify2.zip)
Publications
- Larry Salomon jr.: Writing Memory Allocation Functions with DosSubAllocMem - IBM OS/2 Developer, Vol. 5 No. 2 (Spring 1993)