Misc for Programmers

By OS/2 Zone Magazine

Free Warp Testing of your Software
Dec'95 For a limited time, IBM is offering to have your software tested for free by the US National Software Testing Laboratory, plus various other incentives for doing so. Click here to see a copy of the press release I was sent via EMail.

Get SMART
Nov'95

The Source Migration Analysis Reporting Toolset (SMART) by OneUp Corporation is a set of tools that help a programmer to convert Window applications to OS/2. It analyses the existing Windows (16 and 32 bit) code, sizes the conversion effort and automatically converts the majority of the code to 32bit Warp code.

Recently it has also been enhanced to support the IBM Developer API extensions for OS/2 and automatically indicates which parts of the code use these extensions.

Club OpenDoc
Nov'95

IBM has announced the formation of Club OpenDoc, a centralised source of information for developer interested in or working with the OpenDoc standard. News, reviews, reference parts, shareware, and anything else to do with OpenDoc will be added to the site. In addition, IBM is kicking off the OpenDoc Developers contest in which entrants will have to submit innovative and functional use of the technology. And to make sure everyone has fun with this new technology, puzzles and contests will be hidden around the site to encourage everyone to have some fun at the same time as learning about this very interesting subject. Further, IBM has also announced recently that it has assumed responsibility for development of OpenDoc for Windows'95 and Windows NT. IT will be concentrating its development efforts out of its new central development site in Austin, Texas.

Developers API … for Win'95?
Nov'95

Believe it or not, IBM is producing a common API set called the Developers API which allows you as a programmer to develop a common set of source code and then to compile for both Win'95 and OS/2. This apparently will simplify the migration of Win'95 programs to OS/2. Hopefully it will encourage software houses which have so far ignored OS/2 to now support it.The API set supports OS/2 Warp, Windows 3.1, Windows NT, and Windows'95. The APIs are extensions of the Warp API and therefore are supported by the Win32 environment.The beta of these extensions is available on DevCon 9.