Charles Petzold

Contact Information

• Website: http://www.charlespetzold.com/
• email: cp@charlespetzold.com
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Petzold/697474376

Publications

Articles

Microsoft Systems Journal

• A Complete Guide to Writing Your First OS/2 Program - May 1987 (Vol.2 No.2)
• Utilizing OS/2 Multithread Techniques in Presentation Manager Applications - Mar 1988 (Vol.3 No.2)
• The Graphics Programming Interface: A Guide to OS/2 Presentation Spaces - May 1988 (Vol.3 No.3)
• OS/2 Graphics Programming Interface: An Introduction to Coordinate Spaces - Jul 1988 (Vol.3 No.4)
• Techniques for Debugging Multithread OS/2 Programs with CodeView® 2.0 - Sep 1988 (Vol.3 No.5)
• Exploring Vector Fonts with the OS/2 Graphics Programming Interface - Mar 1989 (Vol.4 No.2)
• Checkers Part I: Design Goals for Building a Complete Graphical Application - Nov 1989 (Vol.4 No.6)
• Checkers Part II: Drawing the Checkerboard and Pieces Using GPI - Jan 1990 (Vol.5 No.1)
• Checkers for Presentation Manager Part III: Moving the Pieces - Mar 1990 (Vol.5 No.2)
• Checkers for PM Part IV: Adding the Game-Playing Strategy - Sep 1990 (Vol.5 No.5)

PC Magazine

• 31 Jan 1989: OS/2 Extended Edition - System Integration the IBM Way (pp 141-150)

PC Magazine (Environments)

• 29 Sep 1987: Welcome to the Post-DOS World (pp 379-383)
• 13 Oct 1987: OS/2 and the 286 Protected Mode (pp 441-445)
• 27 Oct 1987: Intro to OS/2 Function Calls (pp 375-380)
• 10 Nov 1987: OS/2 Kernel Programming (pp 483-492)
• 24 Nov 1987: OS/2 Program Entry Conditions (pp 371-375)
• 08 Dec 1987: Upward Compatibility Through FAPI (pp 435-445)
• 22 Dec 1987: Exploring the OS/2 Video Interface (pp 357-362)
• 12 Jan 1988: OS/2's Multiple Video Alternatives (pp 339-344)
• 26 Jan 1988: OS/2 Memory Management (pp 313-318)
• 14 Jun 1988: IBM's OS/2 Programming Tools (pp 321-333)
• 28 Jun 1988: Multiple Threads Make Better OS/2 Programs (pp 289-307)
• Jul 1988: Introducing the OS/2 Presentation Manager (pp 379-394)
• Aug 1988: Presentation Manager Menus (pp 395-409)
• 13 Sep 1988: Presentation Manager Dialog Boxes, Part 1 (pp 327-338)
• 27 Sep 1988: Presentation Manager Dialog Procedures (pp 291-302)
• 11 Oct 1988: Microsoft's OS/2 Programming Tools (pp 289-293)
• 31 Oct 1988: Dual-Mode Programs Without FAPI (pp 387-401)
• 15 Nov 1988: Teaching the PM to Say "Hello" (pp 327-341)
• 29 Nov 1988: Getting Started in Presentation Manager Graphis (pp 347-360)
• 13 Dec 1988: The Mouse: Not Just for Wimps (pp 339-347)
• 27 Dec 1988: The Mouse and Its Messages (pp 251-258)
• 17 Jan 1989: Object-Oriented Programming (pp 317-324)
• 31 Jan 1989: Speaking the Language of the PM API, Part 1 (pp 257-262)
• 14 Feb 1989: Speaking the Language of the PM API, Part 2 (pp 305-318)
• 28 Feb 1989: Speaking the Language of the PM API, Part 3 (pp 283-288)
• 14 Mar 1989: Speaking the Language of the PM API, Part 4 (pp 329-335)
• 28 Mar 1989: Paring Down the Standard Window (pp 275-289)
• 11 Apr 1989: The Truth About Presentation Manager (pp 187-203)
• 25 Apr 1989: Booting OS/2 1.1 from a Floppy Disk (pp 285-294)
• 16 Jan 1990: OS/2 and the 386: They Should Have Been Made for Each Other (pp 303-308)
• 30 Jan 1990: A Follow-up on Font Technology for the Presentation Manager (pp 295-298)
• 13 Feb 1990: Printing Under the Presentation Manager, Part 1 (pp 285-292)
• 27 Feb 1990: Printing Under the Presentation Manager, Part 2 (pp 317-)
• Apr 1990: Printing Under the Presentation Manager, Part 3
• 24 Apr 1990: Printing Under the Presentation Manager, Part 4 (pp 297-308)
• Programming for Multithreaded Drawing, Part 1
• 12 Jun 1990: Programming for Multithreaded Drawing, Part 2 [1]
• 16 Mar 1993: Paragraph Formatting and Text Justification Under OS/2 (pp 343-349)

Books

• OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming - Ziff Davis 1994 - Book Review, Companion Files
• Programming the OS/2 Presentation manager - Microsoft Press 1989

Please notice that the programming exercises source code from his OS/2 books are available on his website