Wide Studio Application Builder User's Guide

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Setting of the environment variables on Windows

The installer of WideStudio sets the environment variables up, the user do not need to set them. It requires to reboot after installing WideStudio in order to refrect them.

Setting of the environment variables on the UNIX system

It requires to set the following environment variables up to make WideStudio ready after installing it.
WSDIR The install directory of WideStudio
PATH The command directory of WideStudio
LD_LIBRARY_PATH The shared library directory of WideStudio

In the case of unsetting the environment variable "WSDIR", The application builder treat it as following value.
System The default value
Linux /usr/local/ws/
SunOS /opt/ws/
The other UNIX /usr/local/ws/

For example, In the case the following install directory is "/export/home/ws", Set the environment variables as follows.
(Note: xxxxx in the list shows the value before modification.)
An example of installed directory /export/home/ws/
in csh setenv WSDIR /export/home/ws
  setenv PATH xxxxxx:/export/home/ws/bin
  setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH xxxxxx:/export/home/ws/lib
in sh WSDIR="/export/home/ws";export WSDIR
  PAHT="xxxxxx:/export/home/ws/bin";export PATH
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH="xxxxxx:/export/home/ws/lib"
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Please add these settings to .cshrc(if use csh), .profile (if use sh), and relrect it by logouting or execute rehash command to update the values.
Please refer the manual of shell, if you needs the details of setting of shell environment variables.

The other files on the UNIX system

The files which are used by the application builder are as followings. These files are automatically created by the application builder in the home directory.
The file name Description
.wsrc Contains the settings of look and feel, default colors.
.wsbuilderrc Contains the specified editor,browser
.wsbuilder_defaults Contains the information of the application builder

The command: wsreset resets these files in order to initialize the settings, if some files contains wrong value.
Document Release 1.3

For Use with Wide Studio Release 1.3, Summer 2001


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