Windows Systems Tools in Smalltalk Tue, July 14, 10:30am – 11:00am First Name: Andreas Last Name: Hiltner Title: Windows Systems Tools in Smalltalk Type: Talk/Demonstration Abstract: In this session, Andreas Hiltner, Lead Software Engineer from Cincom Systems, Inc., will be accessing Windows internal information using Cincom Smalltalk, as well as building system level tools that help with testing and debugging. Bio: Andreas Hiltner is currently a Lead Software Engineer for Cincom ObjectStudio, and has a hand in many aspects of VM, base image and database development. He works from home near Nuremberg, Germany, where he just recently returned after spending five years with his family in the US at Cincom’s headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8_EerbEGWc

1. SYSTEM TOOLS WITH
CINCOM® OBJECTSTUDIO®
By Andreas Hiltner

3. Overview
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• Intention
• Power Capabilities / - State
• BatteryMeter
• GUID Generator
• Windows
• Window Spy
• Window Finder
• Processes
• Process Exlorer
• GDI Log
• Questions

4. INTENTION
Produce tools that help test
and debug next generation
UI windows and controls.

5. Power Capabilities
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Class PowerCapabilities Contains information
about the power capabilities of the system.
e.g.
• is there a system power button
• is there a lid present
• is a battery present
• Is a thermal control present
• (…)

6. Power State
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Class PowerState provides a system-wide set of
power management features. The class retrives
the power status, notify the application of power
management events and notify the system of the
application‘s power requirements.

7. Power State (con‘t)
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• Away Mode required
• Display required
• System required
• Suspend / Hibernate
• Announcements for
• Suspend operations
• Resume from Suspend
• Battery state (charging/high/low/critical)

8. Battery Meter
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9. GUID Generator
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Generate GUIDS
with different styles.

10. Window Spy
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Window Spy shows all registered windows, that exist at
the present time in a hierarchical view.
Not just of its own Smalltalk process, but all existing
processes, starting with the Windows Desktop.
Window Spy also retrieves information about the
process, the window belongs to.

11. Window Spy (con‘t)
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12. Window Spy (con‘t)
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13. Window Finder
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Window Finder locates and retrieves styles and extended
styles of any open window in the system.
It works in conjunction with Window Spy.

14. Window Finder (con‘t)
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15. Process Explorer
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ProcessExplorer displays all existing processes and information
about
• Process ID (PID)
• Number of GDI objects
• Number of User Objects
• Creation time
• Time spend in User Mode
• Time spend in Kernel Mode
• Search for the Executable Name

16. Process Explorer (con‘t)
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17. Process Explorer (con‘t)
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18. Process Explorer (con‘t)
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19. GDI Log
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GDI Log shows the usage of the various GDI resources over time.
It can help to identify resource leaks and indicate, which resources
are used during operations.

20. GDI Log (con‘t)
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Questions?

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Star Team (Smalltalk Strategic Resources)
– Suzanne Fortman (sfortman@cincom.com)
Cincom Smalltalk Program Director
– Arden Thomas (athomas@cincom.com)
Cincom Smalltalk Product Manager
– Jeremy Jordan (jjordan@cincom.com)
Cincom Smalltalk Marketing Manager
– Suzanne Fortman (sfortman@cincom.com)
Cincom Smalltalk Engineering Manager
Contact Information

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