Workplace Shell Toolkit
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Workplace Shell Toolkit | |
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Name | Workplace Shell Toolkit |
Version | 1.70 (2008) |
Vendor | |
Author | Christian Langanke
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Licence | GNU GPL v2 |
WWW | http://wpstk.netlabs.org |
The Workplace Shell Toolkit (WPS Toolkit, WPSTK) is a set of C libraries that addresses not only WPS programming, but also PM programming. It helps in some more low-level tasks like providing an function to access the DosFind functions much more easier and can help to ease e.g. the settings handling enormously as well.
The following major APIs of the Workplace Shell Toolkit possibly are of particular interest:
- Settings and Details Manager
- Extended Attributes Manager
- Memory Mapped Files Manager
- Text Message File (TMF) Support
- NLS related functions
- Process related functions
- PM helper and PM control functions
- Bubble Help API
Supported Development Environment
The Workplace Shell Toolkit can be used with and comes with code and import libraries for the following compilers:
- IBM C Set ++ Version 2.1
- IBM VisualAge C++ Version 3.x
- EMX 0.9d / gcc 2.8.1
- InnoTek GCC Version 3.3.5 or later (untested with later GCC versions)
- Open Watcom C/C++ Version 1.5 or later
In addition a syntax highlighting file is available for the following editors:
- Prerequisites
- C compiler
- OS/2 SDK
Version
- 1.60 - Adds support for Open Watcom and InnoTek GCC compilers
- 1.70 -
Links
- Workplace Shell Toolkit home page
- Workplace Shell Toolkit TRAC page
- release binaries from the Netlabs FTP server.