Presentation Manager

Presentation Manager (PM) is the graphical user interface (GUI) that IBM and Microsoft introduced in version 1.1 of their operating system OS/2 in late 1988.

It is based on the VisiOn shell extended and adapted to fit the IBM Systems Application Architecture (SAA) Common Programming Interface. With version two of OS/2 it gained a new portable and optimised graphics developed by Micrografx.

Programming Utilities

• Dialog Editor
• Font Editor
• Icon Editor
• Resource Compiler

• OS/2 Warp 4 Presentation Manager Files

Handles

Handle	Description	Header File
HACCEL	Acceleration list	PMWIN.H
HATOMTBL	Table of atoms
HENUM	Enumeration operations
HIMAGE	Image
HPOINTER	Mouse pointer
HSAVEWP	Saved window position

Articles

• Presentation Manager Functions
• EDM/2 PM Articles

Publications

• Presentation Manager Programming Guide and Reference (Nov 1996)
• OS/2 Warp V3 Presentation Manager Programming Guide (1994)
  • The Basics
  • Advanced Topics
• OS/2 Warp V3 Presentation Manager Programming Reference (1994)
  • Volume 1
  • Volume 2

• OS/2 2.0 - Programming Guide
  • Volume I P/N 10G6261, Form # S10G-6261, ISBN 1-56529-154-9 (PDF)
  • Volume II P/N 10G6494, Form # S10G-6494, ISBN 1-56529-155-7 (PDF)
  • Volume III P/N 10G6495, Form # S10G-6495, ISBN 1-56529-156-5 (PDF)

• Bryan Goodyer: OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming: Hints and Tips - McGraw-Hill 1993, ISBN 0-07-707776-8

Links

• Wikipedia
• osFree - OS/2 Clone project