WPS Class Manager v. 0.1

[2003 Aug 19]

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Content

• License agreement
• Introduction
• Installation
• Features
• Planned features
• Registration

License agreement

• You are allowed to use this program for testing and evaluation until a next version is available.
• The program, in its current version, may be installed on as many machines as you like.
• You are free to distribute the program provided that you include all the files in the original archive without any modification.
• You are not allowed to sell the program, but can charge a reasonable amount to cover the cost of the distribution media.
• Under no circumstances will the author be liable for any loss or damage that may be derived from the use of the program.
• WPS Class Manager is the copyrighted property of Alessandro Felice Cantatore, Bitonto, Bari, Italy.
  
  

Introduction

This is a small applet for the management of the WPS classes.
This program should be used only by advanced OS/2 - eCS users, aware of the consequences of registering/deregistering WPS classes.

Installation

The application consists in an executable file, this documentation file and a REXX installation script.
To install the program, unzip the archive in directory of your choice and double click on the install.cmd icon to create a program object in your Desktop\Programs\Utilities folder.
If the Utilities folder is not found the object will be created either in your Programs folder or in your Desktop folder.

Features

This program allows:

• to register new WPS classes,
• to deregister existing WPS classes,
• to deregister not-deregistrable WPS classes, by directly removing them from the OS2SYS.INI data,
• to modify the path or the name of the DLLs associated with a WPS class name.

The Refresh button makes the program re-scan the WPS class list data updating the window content.
When an item in the list is selected the Edit , the Deregister  and the Remove  buttons are enabled.

The Edit button allows to change the name or the path of the DLL containing the definition of the currently selected class.
Once you click on Edit  (or double click on a class item in the list window) the data of the selected class is written in the Class name  and the Module name  entry fields.
After having modified the content of the Module name  entry field you must click on the Apply button to update the module data.
You can click any time on the Cancel button to exit Edit mode  and leave the class data unmodified.

To register an new WPS class enter the class name and the name of the DLL containing the class definition in the entry fields, click on the Add button and on the Ok  button in the confirmation dialog which will as a consequence pop up.

To deregister the selected WPS class click on the Deregister button. A confirmation dialog will ask you to confirm the deregistration.
If the current class cannot be deregistered via the standard WinDeregisterObjectClass  API, you can still deregister it via the Remove button which works at a lower level and allows to remove even the underegistrable classes.

Planned features

Depending on the user requests (and will to pay for the needed development costs) I might add the following features:

• ability to work on OS/2 - eCS installations residing on accessible drives (i.e. not the current OS installation),
• backup/restore current class data,
• view the class list sorting by class, dll name and registration order,
• automatic deregistration of all classes contained in a given dll with optional deletion of the dll files,
• destruction of all abstract objects of a given class (and their data stored in the INI files),
• other features according to user requests.

Registration

In this stage of development, no program registration is needed.
You are free to use this version of the program until a new version is available.