David,
At 02:26 PM 6/21/99 -0700, you wrote:
>has anyone experienced loading large size app onto the device/poser? i
have this
>app here which is about 134k, and i'm having trouble to load it onto the
device.
<snip>
>any idea what's going on? thanks.
We developed an application that topped out somewhere just under 250k. We
discovered that the debugging tools, especially POSE, are extremely
unstable at that point. First tracing into functions stops working. Then
it downloads successfully only occasionally. Finally, the whole thing
crashes.
A few things that have helped:
1. If you have an NT machine, use that - it seems the most stable for
debugging.
2. If you can debug on the device rather than POSE, this also seems more
stable (we made extensive use of the serial/ir port, so we could not).
3. If you can split your application's functionality into small testers,
this is the most efficient (this is true of any project of any size).
That said, I'm not sure what version of the tools you're using. We were
using CW R4 and POSE 2.1d24. There have been several revisions of both
tools since - these may have addressed some of your problems.
Also, are you having this same trouble installing your app to the device
using HotSync (tm)? We found that this was the most robust way to get the
app onto the device. Debugging became more of a challenge, though.
I have more suggestions, but they involve restructuring your app - which
you may not be willing to do.
Hope this helps.
Greg
Greg Winton
Bachmann Software and Services, LLC
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