Workplace Shell Toolkit: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 17:35, 19 March 2018

The Workplace Shell Toolkit also known as WPS Toolkit or 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

Compiler and editor support

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 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

Current version: 1.70 - Updated version is available from the Netlabs SVC server
Version 1.6 - Adds support for Open Watcom and InnoTek GCC compilers

Links

Workplace Shell Toolkit home page
Workplace Shell Toolkit TRAC page
release binaries from the Netlabs FTP server.

License

Open Source software released under the GPL v2 license.

Authors

Christian Langanke (Original/Main Author)
Dmitriy Kuminov
Chris Wohlgemuth
Steven Levine
Michael K. Greene
Radim Kolar
Sergey I. Yevtushenko
Yuri Dario
Ulrich Möller

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 ===Compiler and editor support===
-The Workplace Shell Toolkit can be used with and and comes with code and import libraries for the following compilers:
+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 3.5.5 or later (untested with later GCC versions)
+* InnoTek GCC Version 3.3.5 or later (untested with later GCC versions)
 * [[Open Watcom]] Version 1.5 or later
@@ Line 27: / Line 27: @@
 ==Version==
-* Current version: 1.70 - Updated version is avalable from the Netlabs SVC server
+* Current version: 1.70 - Updated version is available from the Netlabs SVC server
-* Version 1.6 - Adds support for Open Watcom and Innotek GCC C/C++ compilers
+* Version 1.6 - Adds support for Open Watcom and InnoTek GCC compilers
 ==Links ==