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orville%weyrich@tnet.com (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:

I'm sure many people look at the list and wonder which to buy.  In
my experience with the 1.2 toolkit, the books listed as "online" were
the ones I used almost exclusively.  I found that the online version
was handy, but the books were even better (you learn a lot by page
flipping past other function calls and glancing at them).  Here are
my opinions (based upon OS/2 1.2!!) on what is needed.  Perhaps others
would be willing to share their opinions as well.

If you want to buy a(ny) subset of the docs, I'd recommend at least:

Control Program Programming ...		10G-6263	Y	$25.00
Presentation Manager ... Vol. I		10G-6264	Y	$35.00
Presentation Manager ... Vol. II	10G-6265	Y	$35.00
Presentation Manager ... Vol. III	10G-6272	Y	$35.00

I haven't done 2.0-specific development yet, and haven't seen this,
but it might be somewhat necessary:

System Object Model			10G-6309	Y	$9.00

The CUA books were 'bed-time reading' and not really reference type
books, but still consultable.  I recommend them if you are serious
about putting out CUA-compliant stuff, even though you probably won't
use them very much:

SAA CUA Guide to User Interface Design	10G-6270		$10.00
SAA CUA Advanced Interface Design ...	10G-6271		$18.25

Obviously, if you are doing some sort of device driver stuff these
would be useful:

Physical Device Driver ...		10G-6266		$30.00
Virtual Device Driver ...		10G-6310		$10.00
Presentation Driver ...			10G-6267		$25.00

If you are new to PM programming, you would probably want these as
supplements to Petzold's book (they decribe how OS/2 and PM work,
and how you should write your programs--I think they have some example
code and describe it):

Programming Guide Volume I		10G-6261		$15.00
Programming Guide Volume II		10G-6494		$25.00
Programming Guide Volume III		10G-6495		$15.00

The REXX books I remember from the 1.2 toolkit were almost useless to me.
I did do some REXX and REXX<->C interface stuff, and even then they were
of little use:

... REXX Reference			10G-6268		$15.00
... REXX User's Guide			10G-6269		$10.00

I guess you may need this for doing IPF-style documentation:

Information Presentation Facility ...	10G-6262	Y	$15.00

And I don't remember what this was about:

Application Design Guide		10G-6260		$15.00


Sorry, but it has been a year since I did OS/2 development, and my
memory is a bit foggy.  Feel free to make corrections or supplement
what I have said.

Guy
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