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Mark Framness (framness@EMIRATES.NET.AE) wrote:

: Hey Phreaks!

: What is a good book on using Visual Age C++ for OS/2?  The manuals and online
: help restrict their attentions to functionality only.  I mean they tell you
: how to use something but very little on why to use something.  An example of
: this is in the compile settings.  You click on help and it just says click on
: the desired option to activate or deactivate it.  It assumes you already know
: exactly what the setting does (good for veterans of the OS/2 Wars, but for
: rookies not good at all).

: I see for any sort of OS/2 PM/WPS project you should be working with make
: files, rc files, h files, lib files, hpp files (oh yeah and isn't there
: something called a cpp file?) etc.  I understand the concept of these files
: but can find little information that can help me understand how make files are
: created in VA C++.  Sure there is makemake but I look at the options and no
: comprendho.

Well, nmake is a reasonably standard if limited make.  But on the general
topic of OS2 and VAC books, check EDM's reviews.  I use the books from
the IBM Technical Library published by QUE (for 2.1), some of which are
reproduced in the VAC .inf files, and the books by Burge and Celi,
Advanced OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming (a good introduction),
Stern and Morrow, OS/2 Warp PM Programming for Power Programmers, and
Knight and Ryan, Programming the OS/2 Warp Version 3 GPI.
I've got various other books, but those are the ones I tend to use.

For the Open Class Library the best bet seems to be Tsuji, Love, Law
and Olson, Power GUI Programming with VAC++, and for multimedia,
Lawton, Noe, and Lopez, Developing Multimedia Applications under OS/2.
But I haven't used these last two much.


Will
cwr@crash.cts.com