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OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical => Applications => Topic started by: Jean-Yves on October 09, 2014, 11:44:32 am
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Digging through old backup CDs, I found screenshots of some apps I built for eCS in the early 2000s. Alas, no source code remains and I only have the executable for one of them (also on hobbes)
All apps were built using VisPro Rexx.
Felix/2, a simple file manager. From memory this never got very far beyond basic file operations (copy, move delete)
(http://www.shimeril.com/os2/felix2.gif)
QLayConfig/2 to manage the QLay Sinclair QL emulator config file (QLay is a DOS based emulator that runs very well under OS/2). The executable is available from hobbes
(http://www.shimeril.com/os2/qlaycfg2.gif)
Admin Tool for Web/2 to manage the Web/2 webserver config files. I'd completely forgotten about this one! :) I am quite annoyed about losing the source code for this as it seems pretty feature complete but I never got around to uploading it to hobbes (or if I did, I cannot find it there)
(http://www.shimeril.com/os2/w2aweb.gif)
(http://www.shimeril.com/os2/w2amime.gif)
(http://www.shimeril.com/os2/w2aadd.gif)
Actually, I may have a pop at re-creating the Web/2 admin tool as a nice little project to re-learn VisPro Rexx
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It is possible to get the Rexx code back - also if you have only binary files of a Vispro Rexx project.
I never did it but it is possible. I know that Pillarsoft offered this as a service to do for you. If I remember right this works via tracing (not sure, have to re-check) and you could do it your own. Of course you have to re-create your visual forms, but you can grab the underlying code.
good luck! :)
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Actually, I may have a pop at re-creating the Web/2 admin tool as a nice little project to re-learn VisPro Rexx
Source code is visible in FC/2... just press F3 or F4.
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Hi Jean-Yves.
Can I have your permission to include your screenshots and you software description on the OS2World Wiki?
I plan to create three Wiki pages under this page: http://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Jean-Yves_Rouffiac (http://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Jean-Yves_Rouffiac)
Regards
MartÃn
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Yes of course. Although only one of the apps now survives as anything but screen shots :(
Thanks everyone for the advice re Rexx re else engineered source code. I had no idea that was possible. Alas though, the admin tool for web/2 and the file manager have no exe either.
What I'm most upset about is I trashed bunch of old hard dri es only a few weeks ago. The source was probably on one of those... silly boy!
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Yes of course. Although only one of the apps now survives as anything but screen shots :(
Thanks everyone for the advice re Rexx re else engineered source code. I had no idea that was possible. Alas though, the admin tool for web/2 and the file manager have no exe either.
What I'm most upset about is I trashed bunch of old hard dri es only a few weeks ago. The source was probably on one of those... silly boy!
Ouch! There's nobody else who used the programs you developed who might still have a copy?
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No I don't think so. Unless I sent dink a copy of the admin tool - but his site is no longer live. And I didn't personally know anyone else who used OS/2 or eCS after I left the banking IT world, so no one to share coding tips with other than online.
However, I have already begun the Admin Tool rewrite as it's a nice self contained project that should be relatively easy to do and a nice break from my day coding (databases, web back ends).
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To resurrect an old thread....
I'm still around, although I don't have much to contribute so I tend to just lurk/read rather than post.
However, you may be interested in this: I've been doing some slow (very slow) but steady coding in VisPro/Rexx to try to bring at least the Web/2 GUI app back from the void. Based on just the old screenshots, I have a couple of working tabs so far (general and CGI)
Working as in "sort of working with a few hiccups"! :)
Here is a thumbnail of a screen shot of the current development build:
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8583/16657729260_d7465b7bef_s.jpg)
click here for full size (https://www.flickr.com/photos/xuratoth/16657729260)
VisPro/Rexx is... challenging. Advanced for its time, but when I compare it to the tools I have nowadays to build apps on other platforms, it can be quite painful to get some stuff done. Oddly, that challenge is what I like about it ;D
At the current rate of progress, expect a finished product sometime by the end of the decade!!!
Edit: fixed a couple of typos