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rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:

>In article <repost8647@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> df@cs.purdue.EDU (dan) writes:
>>    Need some help everyone.  The company I am working for is ready to
>>    start selling a PM app.  In the installtion of the program, we
>>    would like to create a new group under the Start Programs window
>>    that contains our program.  I know Excel does it.  If anyone has
>>    any ideas or code they would like to share, I would really 
>>    appreciate it.
>>
>>      Tony Vollmer
>>      CAPSCO PALLM SYSTEMS

>The information about programs to offer in the start programs window is
>hold in OS2.INI. There are API functions to write and read from this
>file (I do not have all their names in mind). Use the INIEDIT program
>from the SDK samples to take a look at OS2.INI and to get the structure
>of the entries to create.

>Kai Uwe Rommel
>Munich

I assume you mean by this the WinWriteProfile<x> API.  
This is certainly not the correct way to add new groups to the 
PM program starter.  

For one thing, adding entries the .ini file using this API
will not cause the program starter to refresh itself.  So the 
added applications will not appear on the starter menu until next
time the machine is rebooted.

For another thing you will incurr a dependency on the (unpublished)
structure of a data file over which you have no control and no
guarantee that it will not change in a future release. In the worst
case, installing an application in this way may break the program
starter completely, requiring a restore of the .ini file.

There is a set of API's specifically for adding groups and apps to the
program starter.  WinCreateGroup and WinAddProgram.  Use these.

Martyn Legge
(Data Logic)
an unpublised