OS/2 WARP Programming for Dummies by Blake Watson

[Dan Eicher]

Does someone have or know where I can download the code?
Thanks!

[Dan Eicher]

A better answer, than re-typing examples in by hand, but not as good as a debugged sample disk, will be for me to cut and paste some of the examples from the full text edition, re-edit and debug.

https://archive.org/stream/os2warpprogrammingfordummies/OS2%20Warp%20Programming%20for%20Dummies_djvu.txt

[Dariusz Piatkowski]

Dan,

I've got a few chapters of code saved up on my machine here...they are all circa 1999, so either because I was actually going through that stuff myself (which at some point in time I actually did, so a quick QC pass through the source should be done first LOL), or perhaps I actually downloaded them from somewhere.

If you want to just grab these I can literally ZIP the directory structure and post on my web server?

-Dariusz

[Martin Iturbide]

Hello

I also have interest on a transcript of the samples to put them on the OS2World Github. I have several samples there and if it's possible to include the samples from this book I will appreciate it.

Dan, if you are playing the OS/2 programming and you want to share any sample on Github, I will be happy to also include those. (no pressure)

Regards

[Martin Iturbide]

Hello Dan

Grok does some decent OCR by copy+paste the images to the prompt and telling it to get you the code without inventing anything new.

You can try it out. Here I attach some samples to Chapter 5.

Regards

[Dave Yeo]

I found that the examples I tried didn't compile without fixes. That was using OpenWatcom. Should return to it but my copy is falling to pieces.

[Dan Eicher]

Maybe because openwatcom vs watcom from 8watts?

[Dave Yeo]

Maybe because openwatcom vs watcom from 8watts?

Possibly, or perhaps my environment, it was quite a few years back and I can't remember if I used the Toolkit or the OW headers. Now I usually use the toolkits headers and libraries.

[Martin Iturbide]

Hello.

Nobody asked for this, but I tried to compile Chapter 18 (GPI) with gcc and wrc. ¨

Sadly it is compiling, but it does not run. Maybe the AI changed something on the OCR. But I had to remove the ACCELERATE stuff from the .RC.

Regards

[Dave Yeo]

Quickly looking, the source takes a couple of pages in my book so I didn't feel like comparing it.
You need an #include <stdlib.h>, I put it after the #include<string.h>
I tried rc 4.00.011 and got,

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Creating binary resource file GPI.RES
RC:  RCPP -E -D RC_INVOKED -W4 -f GPI.RC -ef W:\OS2\RCPP.ERR -I W:\usr\include\os2tk45\inc -I W:\usr\include\os2tk45\gl -I W:\usr\include\os2tk45

GPI.RC
GPI.RC(16) RC: error - undefined keyword or key name: ACCELERATE.

GPI.RC(16) RC: error - Resource Type keyword expected - '1000'.
RC: 2 errors detected


Seems every RC has its own problems so figuring out the right one would be a good idea.