The "Setup" entry field on the "Object" page allows to view the current object's
setup string.
This string is composed by &xwp; directly from the object's settings. Presently,
the entry field is read-only and cannot be changed.
See "Setup strings" for an introduction
to WPS setup strings.
You can use this setup string to create a similar object using REXX functions.
See the appendices of the &xwp; User Guide for more about those functions
and a listing of many setup strings.
Presently, &xwp; can decode setup strings of the following classes:
- WPObject/XFldObject;
- WPFolder/XFolder;
- WPProgram and XFldProgramFile. For these classes, the setup string can become
particularly long. You will also see that the WPS stores the DOS setup variables
("DOS" or "Win-OS/2 properties" button on the "Session" page) in the program's
environment, using "SET xxx=yyy" strings.
If setup strings are defined of a more specific class, but &xwp; cannot
decode them, you will only get the setup strings of the parent class(es).
Most notably, setup strings of WPPalette (and subclasses), WPDesktop/XFldDesktop,
WPDisk/XFldDisk,
WPHost, WPLaunchPad, WPNetgrp, WPPdr, WPPrinter, WPRPrinter, WPServer, WPShadow,
and WPUrl are not supported.
However, even for the classes listed above,
not all setup strings are supported by &xwp;
since there is no standard interface how to retrieve them. Again, see
"Setup strings" for details.