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2006-06-27 21:35:08 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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eCo Software is making developers create more SOM/WPS applications, that's why we published "Object-Oriented Programming in eComStation, Part 1: Introduction" (russian language)
This information is useful for development of new applications or extension of existing:
- Lucide viewer - to support new formats
- WPS/eWPS - to support new data types
- Audio-Data CD Creator - to support new devices, for example DVD
- eSchemes - to support new formats of system adornation
- Personal Cards Manager - to establish common database of personal data
- SOM Compiler - to support SOM in other programming languages
- etc.
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2006-06-27 19:03:15 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru, Igor Vaskov]
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As you know, there are some funds for developers in OS/2 community: OS2 World.Com Bounties, eCo Labs fund.
Some weeks ago, the third fund OS/2 FUND (russian site) was founded. Currently, it holds 362 USD. Three projects was defined: porting of perl, module of access to MSSQL Server, PHP5 fixing.
The main goal now is find more investors and developers.
Main differencies of OS/2 FUND:
- The guarantees are fulfilled by Igor Vaskov;
- The tasks are defined by shareholders (investors);
- The money is accumulated in one "bank" in advance;
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Solution Technologies, Boca Raton, Florida, United States
Mensys B.V. , Haarlem, The Netherlands;
Paul Smedley, Greenwith, South Australia
Solution Technology, Mensys B.V. and Paul Smedley have come to an agreement to work together to provide a solution for legacy OS/2/eComStation applications that use a TWAIN interface to control a flatbed scanner.
TWAIN provides a standard interface that applications can use to control a scanner. All scanners currently supported on the OS/2/eComStation platform that have a driver with a TWAIN interface are legacy scanners with a SCSI interface. The result is that applications that ship with a TWAIN interface are not very useful anymore because modern scanners are not supported.
Solution Technologies has provided the source code of its OS/2 TWAIN DDK so an interface can be built between SANE and TWAIN.
The result will be that applications that access a flatbed scanner via a TWAIN interface will be able to utilize USB scanners with the aid of the open source scanner driver SANE
Kent Swan from Solution Technology: "This agreement enables Solution Technology to keep supporting its corporate OS/2/eComStation customers with up to date scanner support. The OS/2 kernel provides very good multi tasking and stability, the reason why some our customers prefer to run our scanner solutions on OS/2/eComStation. In conjunction with this agreement and the development Serenity Systems is doing for the eComStation we can provide our customers with a solution to keep their critical business processes going."
Paul Smedley from Australia and other developers have over the years been maintaining a port of the open source scanner driver SANE on the OS/2/eComStation platform.
When a beta release is ready for release of the TWAIN<->SANE interface it will be included with all SANE builds for OS/2. Custom applications and well known eComStation/OS/2 applications like PMVIEW, Embelish, Star Office for OS/2 etc will be able to use SANE supported USB scanners.
Future versions of eComStation will ship with this package and also the TAME software (a program to use in conjunction with SANE).
For corporate customers requiring support for their applications, please contact Solution Technology.
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Mensys press release regarding status of WIN32PRN (running Windows printer drivers under OS/2)
Haarlem, The Netherlands
Mensys B.V. is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement with Vitaliy Tymchyshyn from the Ukraine. With this agreement all rights for the WIN32PRN project and source code are transferred to Mensys.
Mr Tymchyshyn has started the WIN32PRN project in 2002 and worked on making a base to load the Windows printer driver DLL's on OS/2. More information on this project can be found on www.os2warp.be (Please note that this website still needs to be updated and that the downloads no longer work).
Here is a photo of Vitaliy from Warpstock Europe 2002
We however wanted to inform the community that with the transfer of the source code we want to make the project move forward again as soon as possible. This in answer to the frequently seen question in public forums what happened to the WIN32PRN project. Obviously we are committed to provide better printer support on the eComStation platform.
The WIN32PRN project explained:
The WIN32PRN project aims (with the help of the ODIN project) to run Windows printer driver DLL's on OS/2/eComStation. A printer driver for a printer is a different kind of driver than for example a network or videocard driver. Most drivers that control a device run on at kernel level of the operating system, because they require direct hardware access. However a printer driver (as its normally referred to) is basically a set of DLL (programs) from a printer vendor that translate the data stream from the operating system in a data stream the printer of that vendor can understand.
To print you basically need 2 kind of drivers. The first driver does run at kernel level just like a driver for a network card, in this case the driver that sends the data via hardware to your USB, parallel or serial port. This is mostly standardized and normally does not require a vendor specific driver.
The tricky part is the most inkjet printers and low end laser printers normally use a printer language that is non-standard (like for example PCL or postscript). What the printer driver in this case does, is that it sends a data stream to the printer that printer understands. The solution that WIN32PRN provides, is to create a printer object that loads the proper DLL files that normally run on Windows and that output is sent to the printer port under eComStation.
Current status of the project:
For the coming couple of months there is no beta to be expected, we are currently investigating the code and will announce more information as soon as it is appropriate.
Contact:
For any inquiries about this project, please contact
- Mensys B.V., Roderick Klein
- +31-23-5482020, rwkleinDESPAM@DESPAMmenshys.nl
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2006-06-17 17:08:25 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Roderick Klein, Thomas Klein]
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(Full list of conferences is published here. Please remind us about international meetings )
Warpstock Europe 2006, the annual event for OS/2 and eComStation users in Europe, will take place in the city of Cologne, Germany. The three day event will be held from November 17th to 19th at the youth hostel Koeln-Riehl, so when you are tired your bed is only a few steps away...
Warpstock Europe is the event for all users of the OS/2 or eComStation operating system. If you are interested in OS/2 or eComStation, its current development and future enhancement you should attend Warpstock Europe 2006. Come and join us in Cologne learn more about OS/2 applications and development projects, ask questions or simply enjoy chatting with other users. This years Warpstock will not have a social event, however a bar will be open until 24:00 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
More information about Warpstock Europe 2006 can be found on the official homepage
Accommodation and meals are NOT(!) included in the entrance fee! You only make a reservation for a lunch and/or dinner. We pass along the amount of reservations we have to the youth hostel so they can plan ahead. When you arrive at the youth hostel you will need to arrange the reservation for your lunch and dinner yourself! You will also need to contact the youth hostel yourself to reserve a room.
The website is still under construction, the first people who want to give a presentation have already send us an email. If you want to give a presentation please send an email to rwkleinDESPAM@DESPAMmensys.nl and in that email explain what the presentation is about and tell and briefly tell us something about yourself.
We recommend people to visit the website warpstock.net for more up to date news.
We look forward to seeing you all in Cologne!
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2006-06-15 18:18:41 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [eCo Software, news]
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eComStation and OS/2 Warp platform are growing evolutionary. The current task is attract new users. If we want achieve this, we should create more exceptional software based on particular technologies of our operating system.
The previous few weeks was dedicated to development of base drivers, update of WorkPlace shell applications, creation of auxiliary utilities and support of users.
New and updated drivers
- Updated Power management driver APM.ADD v1.1 (requires ACPI.PSD v2.9)
- New driver "ACPI snooper" is under construction. It is aimed to reconfigure IRQs, reload ACPI tables, etc. -- internal beta-version
Stable version of eSchemes
- eSchemes is a system which allows change system colors, icons and WPS properties via scheme files.
- Fresh eSchemes 1.26 is published in the eComStation beta-zone
- Whatsnew: improved stability, WPS Hangs was fixed, Using external Scheme class.
- We created scheme file format access SOM library. It can be used from any SOM-ready application (ObjectREXX, C, C++).
- IconThemes and old schemes from Scheme palette are converted to eSchemes format.
- A lot of various fixes in eSchemes editor.
- More languages are supported.
Personal cards manager product is approaching to public beta-testing
TCP/IP utilities
- "General network utilities" (set of graphical tcp/ip utilities) are approaching to public beta-testing
- New "Firewall ports setup", internal beta
Updated toolkits:
- SOM Compiler Pascal Emitter, several internal alpha versions
eCo Software support service
Collaboration with other developers:
- One more update of WarpOverlay! video-overlay from LightElf
- To support our multimedia applications we initiated the development of CRC (Central Remote Control). The program gathers events from remote controls, notebook buttons, USB-keyboard multimedia buttons and translates them to commands for multimedia applications. Please, download test utility if you have USB keyboard with multimedia keys and run some tests (by Dmitry Frolov)
How to help to eCo Software:
Previous eCo Software newsletter
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2006-06-08 13:51:13 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [Serenity Systems International]
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Serenity Systems International and netlabs.org today released the first beta version of Lucide, a document viewer for eComStation designed as an replacement for Acrobat Reader.
One goal of Lucide is to have a fast document viewer which is well integrated in the eComStation WPS and supports features like drag and drop and printing and which makes as easy as possible to work with PDF and other files on eComStation.
Lucide provides a SOM based plugin API, this makes it possible to support much more than just PDF documents, the current release also supports DjVu documents and JPEG files. More formats can easily be added by 3rd party programmers.
While the core of Lucide is currently not released as open source software, all plugins are available in sourcecode to encourage programmers to add support for more file types.
All registered eComStation customers can download Lucide Beta 1 from the the eComStation Betazone, after login at www.ecomstation.com
If you find any bugs please report them to the Netlabs tracking system
If you want to provide some more plugins for Lucide you will find the sample source code on this page as well. The package also contains all GPLed parts of the source code.
Support is available on the Lucide mailinglist, you will find details about that on the page mentioned above.
Screenshot of Lucide beta 1 for eComStation:
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2006-06-01 13:11:23 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru, Dmitry Vinogradov]
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www.ecomstation.ru site is going create page with description of REXX language for novice eComStation users. You can help us and send links and paragraphs of text.
Send us blocks of data:
- Description of REXX, features list
- Links for developer
- REXX tutorials
- tips and tricks, FAQ
- Links with common information
- link to conference related to REXX
- examples of large REXX applciations
Contact e-mail: support at ecomstation dot ru
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2006-06-01 13:04:00 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [Serenity Systems International]
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As part of the "Support Agreement for OpenOffice.org" Serenity Systems International is committed to deliver a natively running version of OpenOffice.org 2.0 on OS/2 and eComStation.
After a long period of developing, debugging, enhancing etc. the first results are available, the application now compiles and starts. Of course there is a long way to go, even to have a first user-testable beta release available, but as a teaser we released some screenshots here (click the OpenOffice.org 2.0 splashscreen to access the screenshot gallery)
We'll keep you informed on the progress and of course notify you as soon as a public beta release is available!
Quick access to screenshots: (pic03, pic04, pic05, pic08, pic10, pic12, pic15, pic16, pic17)
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2006-06-01 12:12:27 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Christian Hennecke]
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The June issue of the VOICE Newsletter is now available online.
In the latest issue you find:
- And the Os/2car goes to... -- by Mark Dodel
- Mobile Broadband under OS/2 in Australia - Using an LG 8330 3G phone with OS/2 and eCS -- by Ed Durrant
- USB Removables - Care and Feeding FAQs -- by Lon Hooker
- Maul Publisher goes Unicode -- by Peter Koller
- OS/2 and Wireless "g" -- by Mark Dodel
- How to create a Database using Lotus Smartsuite, Part 4 -- by Arthur van Egmond
- And of course letters, addenda, and tips!
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2006-05-26 17:37:33 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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Mensys BV is a famous dutch company responsible for eComStation releases.
We are going interview eComStation department of this company. Do you have questions to Mensys? Let's gather important and interesting questions.
Post your question and name via e-mail: support at ecomstation dot ru or the web-form
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