What about hardware certification? I've requested some sort of standardized
Platinum Certification for hardware since PalmSource 98' and keep getting
the runaround, or 'its in the works'.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Sabram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, February 13, 2000 12:53 PM
Subject: Platinum Certification Too Stringent (was "Re: Menu shortcut
dilemma")
>This is one point that I'm am at odds on with the Platium certification.
It seems that this and other UI requirements has created in impass with
myself and other developers. Oddly, my customers (a.k.a. cash flow), have
specifically requested NOT to have shortcuts for app to help some very
citicial data from accidentally being lost.
>
>It has become a dilemma where my customers want one thing but shipping this
will not pass Platium certification because of a style issue.
>
>I can see an advantage on a certification process for inspecting things
like memory leaks and compatibility with differnt OS version. However, I
really consider the style rules too critical for such a simple user
interface as the Palm. Another thing I find is that almost none of my
customers are even aware that such a certification process exists and thus
don't even take it into consideration when buying Palm software. Weather
this is on purpose at Palm to
>not hinder apps from being realized is conjecture.
>
>Frankly, I believe a very hard review of the Platinum Certification
requirements by Palm and developers like us are very much in order. The
market for these handheld devices have changed a lot since thise
specifications were written over a year ago. I would love to hear others
comments on this.
>
>Steve
>
>ScorePAD Support wrote:
>
>> Are you sure? Have your apps passed Platinum testing without shortcuts
on all menu item? We were asked to have a shortcut for every menu item in
the documentation that explained why our app failed the testing. We added
shortcuts and passed the testing in 8/99. The specification reads:
>>
>> For each menu command, verify a unique shortcut is assigned. Only About
<appname> does not require one...
>>
>> However, we have added more menu items now.
>>
>> By the way, we have a menu item that wipes out an atbat's data (not
undoable) and we didn't want to assign it a shortcut. They told us to use a
number as a shortcut but that all menu items must have a shortcut.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Steve Sabram [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 2:23 PM
>> To: Palm Developer Forum
>> Subject: Re: Menu shortcut delima
>>
>> You don't have to have ALL of your menu options take a shortcut. I
suggest you make, under your assumption, the seven least used items not have
a shortcut and call it at that. One of our apps has fifteen menu items and
only twelve of them have shortcuts.. The ones that you usually don't want
to shortcut are commands connected with deletion to keep a bad graffiti pen
stroke from accidentally removing something.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> ScorePAD Support wrote:
>>
>> > I have run out of menu shortcuts. I've used A-Z and 0-9 and I still
have 7 menu items left. The Palm Platinum UI spec requires that menu
shortcuts be unique throughout the entire app. Once you use a shortcut, it
can only be reused on another screen for the exact same menu function. We
had to have our app re-tested after passing the Gremlin, memory leak,
beaming, and other difficult tests simply for menu shortcuts and we don't
want that to happen again.
>> >
>> > Thanks for your help.
>> >
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