You get what you pay for and don't wait for ;-)
Maurice, eluded to the fact that we should never care about the hardware,
only the OS version and the features/hwTokens supported.
I believe there are cases when that is not entirely true.
Of course nearly all of them are unsupported, but since Palm is not into
the naming of the devices with numbers, perhaps we can ask you to implement
a way to look for and detect the type of hardware.
For games that hack the hardware, it would be nice to look for 'devices'
that are supported rather than OS versions that may or may not work
depending upon the hardware they are on.
Battery programs that screw with threshold values would like to know what
hardware (independent of the OS) because different levels may apply.
If FPS Utility restored the Palm III battery warning thresholds on a PV
really bad things could happen, possibly even ruining the unit.
Maybe I didn't change the values, maybe another product did but if they
want them restored, I can't do it if I don't know it's a Palm V unit with a
particular type of battery.
-MD
>At 3:02 PM -0500 on 3/15/99, LLC - support FPS wrote:
>
>> One cheap and kludgy way would be to look at the battery voltage.
>>
>> If it's above say 3.6 volts, it's most likely a V device, at least for now.
>>
>> I'm also interested in a releable way to detect the hardware, independent of
>> OS version.
>
>Very cheap, and very kludgy. Don't do this!
>
>See the message I just posted regarding using Features to determine this.
>--Steve
