Well, I'm a newbie Palm programmer and my first app is on track
to be about 40k or so. I use CW and am grateful that I will not
have to deal with the multisegment issues as I have enough to learn
already. So if he wishes to implement the ability in his prc tools
then I am sure there are others like me that will appreciate such
a feature.
Brandon
>
>
> > > I'm curious...how will you get these applications on a device?
Doesn't
> HotSync
> > > impose a 64K limit on the sizes of resources transferred to the
device?
> >
> > Hmm, I thought it was much more fundamental than HotSync, having to do
with
> > *all* chunks in *all* heaps, dynamic or storage, being limited to a
little
> > under 64 KB, and a resource is just a storage heap chunk...
>
>
> In Palm OS 2.0 and earlier, each heap was 64K, so the maximum size that a
chunk
> could be was a little smaller than that. In Palm OS 3.0, the maximum heap
size
> was changed (up to 16Meg, I think), and so chunks could be greater than
64K.
>
>
> > > If so,
> > > you'll break the 32K limit, but hit the 64K limit.
> >
> > So what? I will have the same behavior that CW has and that is the
theoretical
> > limit, and there will be nothing that CW or anyone else can
theoretically do
> which I can't do.
>
>
> "So what" is that you might find it better to invest your talents
elsewhere.
> Perhaps it's just me, but I don't understand the benefit of adding support
for a
> feature that people can't take full advantage of.
>
>
> Mind you, I completely understand that your time is your own. I'm not
trying to
> tell you what to do. I'm just trying to understand why you're doing it.
>
> -- Keith
>
>
>
>
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