Well, there are a lot of people to thank... &xwp; is still a fairly young piece
of software, but still so many people have sent in remarks and supported me.
You are too many to be mentioned here separately.
If you don't find your name in this list, please feel addressed
with this global thank you! Without all this support, &xwp; wouldn't be
where it is today.
First of all, a big thank you to all the translators that have taken up
the huge effort of making &xwp; available in many languages!
The following people deserve a big thank you for contributing to &xwp;:
- Carsten Arnold, Germany, for telling me about the .INI file format so I
could finally replace the &xshutdown; save-INI routines, and for finding some bugs
in the source code.
- Achim Hasenmller for letting me look at WarpEnhancer,
(C) 1996-1997 Innotek Systemberatung, and lots of useful help and support.
- Martin Lafaix, France, for being an active contributor and countless bugfixes.
- Andreas Ludwig, Germany, for supplying many WPS class descriptions.
- Macarlo, Brazil, benedictine monk and system analyst, for inspiring correspondence
and his general support of &xwp; on his webpage.
- John Martin, JMA Technologies, Sweden, for giving me IBM VisualAge C++ 4.0.
- Stefan Milcke, for letting me look at WPSArcO (WPS archiving enabling code),
(C) 1997-1999 Stefan Milcke.
- Markus Montkowski, Germany, for telling me how to resize notebook pages
automatically.
- Knut Stange Osmundsen, Denmark, for adding memory information to the Odin
win32k.sys driver so that &xwp; can display this
and lots of other help every time I got really stuck with OS/2's oddities.
- Paul Ratcliffe, for being an active contributor and countless bugfixes.
- Roman Stangl, developer of ProgramCommander/2, who not only published the source
of that program, which helped me a lot (see the
"Credits" page), but also made a number of very
useful suggestions for &xshutdown;, which have been added with V0.9.0.
- Rich Walsh, USA, author of "Rwx" and "DragText", for help on some SOM internals
and hints about the weird WPS environment setup.
- Steve Wendt, USA, for advertising for XFolder on his valuable
"OS/2 Wishlist"
page and for useful suggestions.
- Carlos Ugarte, for placing PageMage under the GPL, on which earlier versions
of the &pgr; were based.
And here's the old thank-you list from XFolder:
- ARAKAWA Atsushi, Japan, for filling in the APM power-off code, Japanese NLS,
and finding bugs.
- Herwig Bauernfeind, Austria, for adding more driver information.
- Harvey Braun, Australia, for first detecting an embarassingly obvious
XFolder installation bug.
- John Buckley, UK, for the WPDrives suggestion and a better NEWOBJ.CMD.
- Duane A. Chamblee for supplying the BOOTMGR.CMD code.
- James "Lithium" Church for the templates idea,
submitting Kris Kwilas' OS/2 wishlist, and testing for the folder hotkey bugs.
- Dominik Czechowski and Artur Flinta, Poland, for Polish NLS.
- Yuri Dario, Italy, for sending me, among other thing, all that Win95 keys
information.
- Lars Erdmann, Germany, for the MB3-click-to-MB1-double-click code.
- Bjorn Fahler, Sweden, writer at
EDM/2, for technical tips and
his very helpful programming columns. Do read his C and C++ tutorials, they are
excellent.
- Christian Faulhammer, Germany, for translating the "&xwp; Internals" pages in
the documentation to German.
- Christian Gaarden, Denmark (I believe), for useful suggestions
- Diane Gardner, USA, for her very favorable reviews of XFolder in
the Land of Beyond,
useful suggestions and detailed bug reports
- Reinhard Giesen, Germany, for useful suggestions
- Marcus de Geus, Netherlands, for useful suggestions for the Netscape DDE Interface
- Jens Glathe, Germany, for technical information and you-know-what
- Gerhard Hahn, Austria, for the Clipboard suggestion.
- Jim Hruska, USA (I believe), for detecting incompatibilities.
- Tomas Hajny, Czech Republic, for Czech NLS and finding lots of
little mistakes in the sources.
- Rdiger Ihle, Germany, for supplying very helpful code patches.
- Glauco Ippolitoni, Italy, for the Win95 keyboard.
- Henk Kelder, Netherlands, for code and help on
WPS INI entries and EAs; check
his homepage
for his very useful software.
- Torsten Balle Koefoed, Denmark, for detecting incompatibilities, bugs, and
making useful suggestions.
- Kris Kwilas for his very thoughtful OS/2 wishlist about what needs to be improved
with OS/2.
- Hauke Laging, Germany, for detecting incompatibilities, making LOTS of suggestions,
his OS/2 initiatives and bragging about his computer.
- Christian Langanke, Germany: developer of "Animated Mouse Pointers for OS/2",
the famous WPS enhancer
(check his homepage),
for the original TMF code, comprehensive suggestions, technical tips, and support.
- Roger Lindmark and Simon Grnlund, Sweden, for Swedish NLS, finding a lot of
mistakes in the documentation, and other useful hints.
- Mark Mellin, USA, for giving me IBM VisualAge C++ 3.0.
- Eric Norman, Montana, USA, for finding bugs in the subfolder handling and
"Snap to grid".
- Andrea Penna, Italy, for supplying the SmartSuite / NetscDDE trick.
- Rousseau de Pantalon, Netherlands, for supplying a DDE fix for NetscapeDDE.
- Michael Reinsch, Germany, for lots of detailed bug reports.
- Andrea Scagni, Italy, for detailed bug reports.
- Ralph Scharpf, Germany, for the video driver hints.
- Bernd Schemmer, Germany, for detecting incompatibilies and for his fabulous
"Rexx Tips & Tricks" INF book
- Trevor Smith, former editor-in-chief of
OS/2 e-zine, for
support and the configurable reboot idea (they have a review of XFolder in
volume 3 issue 7).
- Thomas Unverzagt, Germany, for the "full path in title" idea.
- Chris Wright of OS/2 e-zine for
pointing out potential problems with the GPL and for considering my point of view.
- Stefan Zechmeister, Germany, for figuring out how to get Object Desktop 2.0
to work.
The following capable programmers have created software which helped
me a lot:
- Dennis Bareis, Australia, for his amazing PMPRINTF package.
&xwp; wouldn't exist without it. Check out
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~dbareis/,
where you'll also find tons of other developer's stuff.
- Klaus Staedtler, Germany, for maintaining all the &cfgsys; information
- Andrew Pavel Zabolotny for his very valuable HTML2IPF tool, with which
I created this online documentation. (I hate IPF.) He is also the developer of lxLite.
(No WWW address for this.)
- The development team of GIMP for Linux
the most impressive OpenSource graphics package available,
and to those capable people who have made the
OS/2 version.
This is what I've created most graphics with.