TextHelper is a PM program based on the MultiLineEditor class from the IBM Open Class Library. I have added text manipulation functions and support for printing on HP Deskjet and Laserjet printers. TextHelper is not intended to
replace any fully functional editor other than E or AE. TextHelper (refered to as TH) does not modify any system files when it is installed, although it does create a program object on the desktop. The trial version of TH does not have any time resatrictions, although it does have nag screens. TH has been tested on the eCS Silver release.

TH can be configured to generate an automatic backup of any file that is modified. The backup file will have a number appended to the file name so that "config.sys" would become"config.sys.001". The next time "config.sys" was edited, the backup file would become "config.sys.002".

TH will warn you if it has detected that changes have been made without saving the contents of the editor.

TH supports long file names. The registered version will allow you to mark descriptive text in the editor and use it as the file name. TH can be configured to convert spaces in the marked text into underscore characters in the file
name.

One mouse click can open another copy of TH to work with more than one file. This can be done multiple times.

One mouse click will open a new copy of TH and grab text from the clipboard and minimize that copy of TH. This can be done multiple times.

Some of the text manipulation functions are:

• removing forwarding marks from saved email messages think of multiple forwarding of a really good joke
• reformatting plain ascii text to increase or decrease the number of characters per line.
• strip leading or trailing spaces from text or remove multiple spaces from text.
• remove blank lines from text
• ROT13 - see the online help for an explaination of ROT13
• Envelope addressing if you have a HP DJ compatible printer
• TH has too many functions to list here.

TH may be registered for $10 (US).

I suggest that you download the trial version of TH and install it. Keep it on your desktop and when you have found a use for it, please register it.

To download a trial copy of the TH help file use the following link:

http://title='Opens external link in new window' class='external-link-new-window' http://dwhawkinson.com/free/ths_107.zip

Tp see all of my shareware and free utility programs use this link:

http://title='Opens external link in new window' class='external-link-new-window' http://dwhawkinson.com>

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There are numerous changes between SeaMonkey 1.1.x and 2.0. The most important ones are listed on  http://http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.0/ ; As this release is based on Gecko 1.9.1, this means that on OS/2 we get both the advantages (e.g. solution to the transparent PNG problem) and the disadvantages (e.g. no direct printing) of the cairo-based graphics backend. The disadvantages are worked on, though.

SeaMonkey 2.0 uses a new profile directory layout. If you already have MOZILLA_HOME set (recommended to separate your profile data from the application), SeaMonkey 2.0 will be able to import most of your settings from 1.1.x. Otherwise you need to transfer some settings by hand.

The few OS/2 changes for the FF 3.5.4 release include changes to the font display (better DBCS support, no double bold characters).

Both FF 3.5.4 and 3.0.15 contain the usual stability and security fixes done in cross-platform code by the Mozilla developers. The security of SM 2.0 is at the same level.

The releases are available from  http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/ where the ZIP packages, the README file, the MD5 checksum, and the relevant Language Pack directories are linked.

FireFox 3.5.4  http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.5.4/contrib/firefox-3.5.4.en-US.os2.zip

FireFox 3.0.15 http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0.15/contrib/firefox-3.0.15.en-US.os2.zip

Please file bugs at  http://https://bugzilla.mozilla.org . If you need help, post in the mozilla.dev.ports.os2 newsgroup (on http://news.mozilla.org ).

It is available at

ftp://ftp.os4.su/moveton/sfl-1.3a-091019.zip

The docs describe Safefire as

"SafeFire Links is a new, powerful implementation of a PPP protocol. SafeFire Links is native OS/2 software, implemented from scratch by highly
experienced developers. This means solid 32 bit, heavy multithreaded,
highly modularized design. It provides the greatest possible performance
and flexibility. SafeFire Links can handle virtually any task which can be
imagined for PPP: from simplest dial-up PPP to multilink ISP. Modular
design provides incredible configuration flexibility while retaining
consistence and unification of components and its configuration."

Of particular interest to eCS/OS2 users is support for PPTP, OpenVPN and
other VPN solutions.

Steven

"Steven Levine" http://class='moz-txt-link-rfc2396E'; <steve53DESPAM@DESPAMearthlink.net>  eCS/Warp/DIY etc. 
http://class='moz-txt-link-abbreviated'; www.scoug.com http://class='moz-txt-link-abbreviated'; www.ecomstation.com

http://http://svn.netlabs.org/qtapps

Qt is a cross-platform application development framework, which is widely used as a widget toolkit for developing GUI programs. Availability for OS/2 and eComStation both means that developers can easily port existing Qt applications and create new ones more easily.

This already has been the case with Qt 3. Now that Qt 4 is widely used, the netlabs.org Qt 4 project aims to make the latest version 4.5 available for OS/2 and eComStation. It currently is in beta stage and applications start to become available.

For more information, see:

http://http://qt.netlabs.org/en/site/index.xml

Since the project relies on funds made by the OS/2 and eComStation community, please consider making a donation:

http://http://www.mensys.com/NetlabsQT4>

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Features

NLS:

OpenOffice.org 3.1 for eComStation and OS/2 is released in English,
German, Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch and Russian.

Internet integration:

• E-mail related settings are now supported, you can email your
  current document, but only Thunderbird is supported.
• The default OS/2 browser will be used for opening web pages from URL
  links in documents.

Desktop integration:

• Support for WPS integration via seperate package.
• Support for the FreeType2 (FT2) font engine for improved text
  rendering.
• Support for XWP/eWPS sliding menu hilite (requires XWorkPlace 1.0.8
  or eCS 2.0 RC4 or newer)
• Support for clipboard bitmap formats and unicode text.
• Support for mouse wheel.

WPS integration package for OpenOffice.org 3.1 for eComStation and OS/2:

• Extends the WPS data file class to recognize OpenOffice.org document
  files
• Integrated support for WPS-Wizard hint and folder info area
• REXX hooks for reading document properties

Quickstart:

The quickstart feature has been implemented for eComStation and OS/2.

Availability

OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 is available to anyone with an active OpenOffice.org Support Agreement for eComStation and OS/2, via their download-area at the Mensys Online Shop:

http://http://www.mensys.net/login/

A mediakit is available as well, for those who prefer to have OpenOffice.org on CD.

What is new in OpenOffice.org 3.1

Below is a list of some of the improvements that are present in OpenOffice.org 3.1:

• Support for the Microsoft Office 2007 File Format - Beginning with
  version 3.0, OpenOffice.org supports importing and exporting of files
  in the Microsoft Office Open XML file format. This includes Word 2007
  (.docx), Excel 2007 (.xlsx) and PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) formats.
• Start Center - When launching OpenOffice.org 3.x, users are presented
  with the Start Center that allows the selection of an application
  within the office productivity suite without having to click the File
  -> New menu.
• PDF/A-1 Support - OpenOffice.org now supports the popular PDF/A
  format for creating read-only files.
  
• Enhanced PDF export - The PDF export feature in OpenOffice.org
  provides a huge set of formatting and security options; so that PDF
  files can be customized for many different scenarios.
  
• Calc Columns Support - the new version of Calc now supports a
  maximum number of columns of 1024, up from 256 in the previous
  version.
  
• View Multiple Pages in Writer - OpenOffice.org 3.x allows Writer users
  to view pages with single-page, two-page side-by-side and book layout
  options.
  
• Improved Notes - The new version of Notes in OpenOffice.org 3.x
  provides additional formatting, spell checking and accessibility
  features while displaying notes within the margins.

More information on the OpenOffice.org development roadmap can be
found at:

http://http://development.openoffice.org/releases/index.html

Information on the eComStation and OS/2 version can be found at:

http://http://www.ecomstation.com/openoffice/

User Support

For help with the OpenOffice.org 3.1 office suite, take a look at the
archives to find questions already answered on the ’users@openoffice.org’
mailing list at:

http://http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html

Alternatively, you can send in your questions to users@openoffice.org.
Remember to subscribe to the list to get an email response.

Also check the FAQ section at:

http://http://user-faq.openoffice.org/

Support specific to the eComStation and OS/2 version can be obtained
through the ticketing system at:

http://http://www.ecomstation.com/support/ooo2/

More information

More information on OpenOffice.org can be found at:

http://http://www.openoffice.org/

Information on the eComStation and OS/2 version can be found at:

http://http://www.ecomstation.com/openoffice/

Beta 3 includes the following changes in detail:

Improvements:

• Qt Linguist tool now included.
• Added proper font support. All outline (scalable) fonts visible in the Font Palette should be now recognized by Qt. The fonts are hinted and antialiased using the Freetype2 library when drawing text.
• System fonts and colors are now used by default for Qt widgets.
• configure.cmd now generates the main Makefile to simplify building of Qt.
• corelib: QProcess: Implemented child termination detection.
• corelib: QProcess: Implemented redirection to another QProcess.
• corelib: QProcess now uses native pipes for stream redirection. This fixes various issues like ’Socket operation on non-socket’ errors during parent-child communication.
• corelib: QProcess: Make sure that the directory containing the executable file is always searched (first) for DLLs needed by this executable. This makes it unnecessary to change the current directory to the executable’s directory or add it to LIBPATH before starting the Qt application.
• corelib: QProcess can now start applications of different type (e.g. PM applications from text-mode applications) directly. QProcess::startDetached() also works.
• qmake: In debug_and_release mode, ’release-(all|clean|distclean|install| uninstall)’ and ’debug-(all|clean|distclean|install|uninstall)’ make targets are now available.

Fixes:

• Doing ’make clean’ could result into a hang due to CMD.EXE command line length limitation.
• corelib: Fixed: QProcess: Lost data during stream redirection.
• corelib: QSettings could sometimes distort data when saving it to the registry (by replacing some characters with codes 0x80 and above with ’?’).

The third beta is available for download at:

http://ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qt4/qt-all-opensource-src-4_5_1-os2-beta3.zip

Qt is a cross-platform application development framework, which is widely used as a widget toolkit for developing GUI programs. Availability for OS/2 and eComStation both means that developers can easily port existing Qt applications and create new ones more easily.

This already has been the case with Qt 3. Now that Qt 4 is widely used, the netlabs.org Qt 4 project aims to make the latest version 4.5 available for OS/2 and eComStation. It currently is in beta stage and applications start to become available.

For more information, see:

http://http://qt.netlabs.org/en/site/index.xml

Since the project relies on funds made by the OS/2 and eComStation community, please consider making a donation:

http://http://www.mensys.com/NetlabsQT4>

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Peter Brown has created a WarpIN package to install the eCUPS driver

You can download the eCUPS WPI package from ftp.netlabs.org/pub/ecups/eCUPS002.wpi

Additional information and links:

* CUPS is the "Common Unix Printing System" driver used by Apple and Linux for support of many printer models. It was ported to eCS-OS/2 by Paul Smedley.
* For information regarding the OS/2 port of the CUPS driver see: svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/CupsPort
* Information on CUPS itself can be found at www.cups.org
* Documentation on how to create this WarpIN package is in
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/ecups/eCUPS002.txt

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/ecups/eCUPS002.wpi
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