PL/I for Windows

#11 06-01-2008, 09:55 AM

<Peter_Flass@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> IBM documentation on this product seems to be substandard (read:
> sucks). I'm trying to find an example and description of a windowed
> PL/I application. In OS/2 we'd call it a Presentation Manager
> Application, I don't know what the corresponding windows term is. The
> Language Reference and Programmer's Guide don't seem to have what I'm
> looking for. There has to be better information. If anyone is writing
> this kind of program, what did you use? Can anyone point me to sample
> code? Thanks.

See http://www.users.bigpond.com/robin_v/reposit.htm

for Windows info.

#12 06-01-2008, 08:17 PM

"Peter Flass" <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> Thanks James. I didn't expect the LRM to have any information, but
> perhaps the Programmer's Guide, or maybe an addendum. I have gotten
> about to the same point with OS/2 1.0,

The PL/I for OS/2 Programmers Guide has complete examples
on using PM.

> but have been frustrated by the
> lack of good documentation. There are two procedure options WINMAIN,
> which is somewhat documented, and WINPROC, which is prtty
> self-expanatory but undocumented. My window procedure didn't seem to ba
> able to access STATIC storage declared elsewhere in the package.
>
> At any rate, I had hoped Windows versions later than 1.0 would be better
> documented than what I have. I'm playing around with getting PM support
> into Iron Spring PL/I, and would like to keep the syntax and semantics
> consistent with IBM compilers, minus the preprocessor usage.

#13 06-15-2008, 07:38 AM

Take a look at my paper on this subject, hosted on Robin's web site (section
2 in http://www.users.bigpond.com/robin_v/pli-n7.htm). The best way to
obtain the "latest" header files is to install FixPak 14. You can also ask
Robin to contact me to obtain the latest copy to host on his web site.

<Peter_Flass@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:0416913f-3f68-46a6-abde-c2245ee010aa@f24g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
> IBM documentation on this product seems to be substandard (read:
> sucks). I'm trying to find an example and description of a windowed
> PL/I application. In OS/2 we'd call it a Presentation Manager
> Application, I don't know what the corresponding windows term is. The
> Language Reference and Programmer's Guide don't seem to have what I'm
> looking for. There has to be better information. If anyone is writing
> this kind of program, what did you use? Can anyone point me to sample
> code? Thanks.

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