eCS File and Directory Standard (eFDS)

2003-08-26 11:12:58 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

During development of eCS 1.1 operating system definite standards was used. Today eCS DevGroup publishes eCS File and Directory Standard (eFDS) so you can test your own software product to compliance of operating system standards and release updated version if needed.

Moreover, you are invited to express your opinion in comments of the document (use english language) or directly by e-mail -- Nicky Morrow.

High Memory usage

2003-07-07 13:35:58 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

More and more developers have to use big volumes of memory.. Evgeny Kotsuba talks how to work with High Memory (russian text) and publishes references to further information, test examples and completed modules for big software applications.

Introduction to Sibyl

2003-06-06 03:15:08 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Every user must create his own application one day.. You can do this now after reading Inroduction to Sybil by stVova (russian text).

Offerings for independent developers

2003-05-06 11:38:12 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

There are not job offerings.. but we start with short-term projects. The first offering is directed to russian developers and relates to creation of audio-codecs. The developer will get a reward.

System components

2002-11-25 23:03:33 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Contact us, if you are creating new components for eCS (or replacing old). We collect this information and pass it to Serenity Systems.

OS/2 in sci-tech lab

2002-10-05 17:44:29 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Step by step we fill our collection of successful OS/2 usage in industry. Here is a story from one of labs of Russian Academy of Sciense (russian text).

OS/2 is an excellent base for creation of industrial devices and embedded solutions.

wxWindows 2.3.3 UNSTABLE DEVELOPMENT SNAPSHOT

2002-09-14 15:23:41 -- Oleg N Gololoboff [VOICENWS, Klaus Staedtler]

wxWindows is a sophisticated cross-platform C++ framework for writing advanced GUI applications using (where possible) the native controls, has been released as beta OS/2 port.

For more information on wxWindows see homepage of the project.

A popular application developed using wxWindows is Audacity.

Developers corner

2002-06-21 14:53:58 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

We open new section for developers of eComStation software. Head of the project - Deniska. Most active ideas generator - sunlover. Join our activity! Send us more and more useful links and facts about developer tools, source code, etc.

Don't forget that general problem of eComStation today is slow tempo of new software creation (developers create/port no more than 100 new applications per month).

Let's activate our hidden energy!

wxWindows. What is it?

2002-04-06 02:32:18 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [os2bbs.com/os2news, Dave Webster]

wxWindows is perhaps the ultimate open source, cross platform GUI C/C++, development library there is.

It currently supports Win32, Gtk and Motif on Unix (many flavors including Linux, HPUX, DecAlpha, Sun Solaris, AIX), MAC OS10. Ports are in development including QT, BeOS, FreeBSD, Windows CE, and of course, OS/2.

I have been working on wxOS2 for about 3 years now, part time, at night and on the weekends. It is about 2/3rds done. SciTech currently is using it as a foundation for their eventual OS/2 port of wxMGL and will probably eventually take over all work on wxOS2. As it sits the GUI framework is pretty complete and I am working on the GDI (Gpi), mostly bitmap processing and such. Still need to add the more exotic controls and toolbars (already has a Windows style status bar).

WxWindows is not only a GUI toolkit, but basically the kitchen sink including full support for multithreading, full Unicode support including font encoding, TCPIP sockets, full featured stl-like container support without needing stl.

With wxOS2 reaching a near usable state developers can truly code once and compile to target platforms. I already do this for Linux and Windows and it REALLY WORKS! While support VisualAge 3.0 Fixpack 8, SciTech folks have built it using Watcom's latest open source compiler and EMX and VisualAge 3.6. VA4.0 is NOT supported although at one time I did have version that built using it. Maybe some other developers could come online and help finish the thing up.

More details -- wxWindows.org

IBM's porting OS/2->Linux article

2002-03-18 23:26:34 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Timur Tabi]

There's an article on IBM's "eServer Developer Domain" that talks about porting OS/2 apps to Linux. What makes it interesting is the discussion of differences between OS/2 and Linux, (especially the weaknesses in Linux compared to OS/2.

Slashdot has a discussion on this article and they also have another idiotic discussion about the "death" of OS/2.

I ask all OS/2 users to remind those morons that in order for a product to be declared dead, it would make sense if it were no longer sold, updated, and supported.

Porting OS/2 applications to Linux

2002-03-14 20:03:00 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Frank Carlos]

This paper at IBM.com is a summary of problems encountered by the LAN Distributed Platform (LANDP) for Linux team whilst porting LANDP from OS/2 to Linux. This paper should be useful to other teams that are porting OS/2 applications to Linux.

DDK update

2002-03-10 00:31:15 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru, LightElf]

IBM updated USB device drivers. Be sure to download the following files that can be found under Input/Output Device Drivers and Test Tools.

Programming DIVE for creation of graphics applications

2002-02-04 12:41:37 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.ecomstation.ru]

Artem Davidenko translated to russian and extended description of DIVE programming. The article is equipped with three cool dive applications (demos and games)

CVS for eComStation.Ru

2002-01-25 10:29:13 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.ecomstation.ru]

We found CVS server for our developers! Thanks to italian OS/2 users! (and Massimo Sangriso). Contact us if you want add sources of your application here.

Update of EMXrus project

2001-12-29 04:19:18 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.ecomstation.ru, Yuri Prokushev]

The project is dedicated to creation of russian version of emx+gcc package (translation of documents, references, messages etc).

Last changes: series of articles was published; changes in plans, more manuals was translated.

Sibyl RAD tool for Pascal development

2001-12-10 00:49:33 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2.org, Adrian Gschwend]

Please send an email to Adrian if you would like to join.

Some of you might now the Sibyl Pascal development tool. It provides a Delphi-Like RAD Interface, creating a PM application in Pascal becomes quite easy like this. However, Sibyl is quite out of date now and it also has bugs which most probably won't be fixed in the future. Because the sourcecode of the RAD-Tool itself is available (at least parts of it as far as I know) we think about porting it to another pascal compiler (VPascal might be an option which is an excellent compiler).

This is not that easy but it should be possible. If you are a pascal developer (and even better a Sibyl user) with some spare time please let me know, we need help to get it to work. Like this we can create a new project for this.

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