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Utilities / Almost forgotten and lost software
« on: January 14, 2024, 09:32:11 pm »
Also, lost software.  No longer at hobbes and and other sites.

OS/2 API Trace is a freeware application written by an IBM software engineer with extensive experience in OS/2 kernel and Presentation Manager development.

OS/2 API Trace allows you to trace the 16-bit and 32-bit OS/2 APIs used by any application running on any 32-bit version of OS/2 (2.0 or later) without requiring the application's source code or requiring the application to be recompiled/relinked. Simply enable the application for tracing and run it, and the OS/2 API calls (and optionally their parameters) made by the application are logged to a text file that is already formatted and in English. OS/2 API Trace also allows tracing to be customized, controlled, and summarized.

https://www.angelfire.com/tx4/blaschke/OS2Trace/

Found at site above, but for how much longer.

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Hi all, I'm finding this issue: my previous DFSee installation was the evaluation one, now asking for a valid key to run. I've found on the eCSoft/2 pages this version defined free-open source and installed it replacing the expired one, providing its uninstallation before.
In the new situation, running the object DFSOS2 returns an error window in the middle of a command-prompt window (see image). Also trying to start the RUN DFSee object returns same error alert, not specifying anything else than "IBMS506$ device does not recognize the command", which I cannot translate in something useful.
Is anyone aware of what can be done to run this DFSee ?
Thank you much

I downloaded my copy from the ARCA NOAE.  It was listed as sponser and support software.  I made a donation, downloaded and installed. Everything works great. I noticed it since has been removed.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Broken AOS-5.1 Trash Can
« on: January 14, 2024, 04:46:41 pm »
Personally, I like the trashcan.  For those that don't want to use the trashcan, right click to open its properties page

Then on the first tab which is labeled "Trash can", check "Always delete immediately (never use trashcan)

 XWorkplace will perform all delete operations directly, without moving the objects into the trash can first.

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Programming / Re: Bigicons
« on: January 12, 2024, 08:46:01 pm »
Updated, remember about setting up the ramdisk if you so choose.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Broken AOS-5.1 Trash Can
« on: January 12, 2024, 08:23:35 pm »
You might try installing an archive.  Is you haven't made any archives, your only archive will be the original after installing ArcaOS.

Open desktop properties and select the archives tab and check the

Recovery choices  > Check "display at each system startup", close and reboot.

Select the archive at bootup.  This should restore it to the original install if you don't have any other archives.


Another option to try is to download the WPTools to a directory, unzip,  and at an ArcaOS prompt, type

Checkini /C

I usually accept the default prompts

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Programming / Re: Bigicons
« on: January 12, 2024, 06:51:29 am »
Updated Pink Theme

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Programming / Re: Bigicons
« on: January 12, 2024, 04:40:13 am »
Updated BigIcons_Blue_Portals theme.

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Applications / Re: David's Doodles
« on: January 11, 2024, 01:34:52 am »
Created a light brown grid background (1600x900)

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Programming / Re: Bigicons
« on: January 10, 2024, 06:18:47 pm »
This is a new theme - BigIcons_Brown

This contains the new Ramdisk icon and the updated BigIcons.txt file.

If you want to use the Ramdisk icon in your other themes, copy it's bigicons.txt file to the other themes along with it media-ramdisk_80.png

Presently, there is no way in ArcaOS to set hard drives to where a RAM disk is automatically recognized and the appropriate drive letter assigned to a specific icon.

BigIcons does allow one to manually set drive letters for RAM drives when Dynamic icons are activated in the Workplace Shell setup icon located in the System Setup folder.

In the BigIcons.txt file found in each theme, look for the lines

;---------------Drive folder icons -- (desktop\computer\drives)
"<WP_DRIVES>"                    "folder_drives_closed.png","folder_drives_open.png"
"<WP_DRIVE_A>"                         "media-floppy_80.png"
"<WP_DRIVE_B>"                         "media-floppy_80.png"
"<WP_DRIVE_S>"                         "media-cd_80.png"
"<WP_DRIVE_T>"                         "media-cd_80.png"
"<LVMREFRESH>"                         "media-LVM_refresh_80.png"
"<PDP_SMARTPFA>"                       "drive-harddisk.png"
"<WP_BOOT>"                            "media-floppy_80.png"

;"<WP_DRIVE_H>"                         "media-ramdisk_80.png"
;"<WP_DRIVE_I>"                         "media-ramdisk_80.png"

The semi-colon is used to comment out the two lines for RAM drive icons.  To enable the RAM disk icon to be used, just remove the semi-colon.  The default ramdrive letters are H and I.  Change these to the drive letters you use, or open the ramdisk setup icon in the System Setup folder and change the Ramdrive to H and I, save, and restart desktop.

If you use only one ramdisk, remove the semi-colon statement from only one of the ramdisk statements and change to the ramdisk drive letter you use.

"<WP_DRIVE_X>"                         "media-ramdisk_80.png"

If you don't use a ramdisk or you prefer the default harddrive icon, you need do nothing.

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Programming / Re: Bigicons
« on: January 08, 2024, 07:19:13 pm »
It would  e nice if the RAMDISK could be included in the drives info.  This is how a the network drive is determined in the bigicons.txt file.

;.....................................
[DRIVE]
;......................................
"FLOPPY3"                     "media-floppy_80.png"
"FLOPPY3EXT"               "media-floppy_80.png"
"FLOPPY5"                     "media-floppy_80.png"
"FLOPPY5EXT"               "media-floppy_80.png"
"FLOPPY8"                     "media-floppy_80.png"
"FLOPPY8EXT"               "media-floppy_80.png"
"CDROM"                       "media-optical.png"
"HDD"                           "drive-harddisk_80.png"
"REMOTE"                     "drive-network_80.png"
"REMOVABLE"        "media-flash-usbpendrive_80.png"

It would be nice to  be able to add a

"RAMDISK"                     "RAMDISK_80.png"

so the system could determine a drive is a Ramdisk and use the appropriate png file.

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Applications / Re: XWP v1.0.16
« on: January 08, 2024, 03:45:21 am »
The features I desired in NPS WPS Enhancer work fine with ArcaOS and the other enhancers.

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Programming / Re: Bigicons
« on: January 08, 2024, 02:15:36 am »
Hi Rich

Yes I was aware of this. The problem is that everyone uses different drive letters for their RAM Drives. I will assign Drive H and I for the Ram disks icons.  I will try to make people aware that if they use different Ram drives, they will have to go into the bigicons.txt file and edit the two lines

"<WP_DRIVE_H>"                         "ramdisk_80.png"
"<WP_DRIVE_I>"                         "ramdisk_80.png"

and change the H and I to the letters they use.

If they go into the desktop > system setup > wplace shell and change the Ram drives to H and I, they will need to save and then shut down ArcaOS for the changes to take effect. A reboot will not work.  This may be because I had

If possible, preserve contents after a warm boot checked.

If they don't use ram drives, or they don't care about the icon reflecting what type of drive it is, they will need to put a ; in front of the statement ot make it a comment.

;"<WP_DRIVE_H>"                         "ramdisk_80.png"
;"<WP_DRIVE_I>"                         "ramdisk_80.png"

I tried

;"<WP_DRIVE_*>"       

but that did not work.

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Programming / Re: Bigicons
« on: January 07, 2024, 09:34:17 pm »
I have to hard code it in the big icon.txt file. I can make them  drive h and whatever most people are agreeable with. H shall be one of the selections. How about I for the other? You can still use other drive letters for the RAM disk.  It will just show the rounded hard drive Icons.

I could add a readme for the RAM disk telling how to change the ram drive letter to the one you want.

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Applications / Re: ArcaOS is the best multitasking system there is
« on: January 07, 2024, 07:44:17 pm »
If we had the development tools, ArcaOS would be the ideal development platform.  Why?

You can set up desktop workspace folders, where when you open a folder, the programs are there that you need for that job.

With Xpager you can have as many desktops as you need to accomplish your work.

You can set programs to open more than once.  This is very useful with XPager.  This has helped me tremendously with the bigicons I have been working with.

We have dragtext which allows us to drag text to other applications.

We have the schedule tab in the program objects properties which allows one to schedule a program to run.

The RAM disks are great for temporarily storing files while working.

JTA mentioned virtualization to where you can open ArcaOS in Windows and eliminate a lot of limitations ArcaOS has.

IBM was a fool.  Developers should have been one of the markets they targeted.

I hate having to do things in Windows.  The desktop gets cluttered.  You can only open one instance of the program.  Believe me when I tell you it would have been many months to do the bigicons themes if I had to use only Windows.  In Windows, they have to setup external monitors to do what Xpager does.

 

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Applications / Re: XWP v1.0.16
« on: January 07, 2024, 07:30:39 pm »
What might be a good addition would be to have a way to draw lines on the desktop, which I believe NPS_WPS Enhance 1.82 had.  I am using XWP and Xit.  I am afraid to add another enhancer for fear of causing conflicts. The drawing of lines would allow one to point out problems on the desktop when sending in pics.  This in just an idea.  Don't even know if it would be feasible with XWP.  If not, I may try NPS and see what happens.

Oh, by the way Rich, doing the BigIcons has been a great learning experience for me.  It has giving me a better idea of how the WPS operates. Thanks for your original suggestion about trying to do something with them.

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