Workplace Shell Toolkit

Workplace Shell Toolkit
Name	Workplace Shell Toolkit
Version	1.70 (2008)
Vendor
Author	Christian Langanke Dmitriy Kuminov Chris Wohlgemuth Steven Levine Michael K. Greene Radim Kolar Sergey I. Yevtushenko Yuri Dario Ulrich Möller
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:

• Enhanced Editor

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.