Larry Salomon Jr.

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)

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

• 1993: Mar, Apr, May/Jun, Jul/Aug/Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
• 1994: Jan, Feb, Mar, May, Jul

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
  • Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8
• Programming the Container Control
  • Part 1 (May/Jun 1993)
  • Part 2 (Jul/Aug/Sep 1993)
  • Part 3 (Oct 1993)
• Development of a New Window Class
  • Part 1 (Jul/Aug/Sep 1993)
  • Part 2 (Oct 1993)
• 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)

Links

• Blog: http://larrysalomon.blogspot.com/
• http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=17365382