At 04:15 AM 5/4/2007, you wrote:
Subject: Appforge / PalmOs hack tutorial
From: Ingbert Grimpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 11:37:10 +0200
X-Message-Number: 2
Hi,
as some might know, AppForge has gone out of business and the new owner
of the IP (Oracle) is not interested in supporting the existing
developer community.
Keeping the IDE running is a solvable problem, but the second problem
are the clients.
There are ways to keep the client in "trial" mode (because this is
stored in saved preferences), but the user still get's the "this is a
trial version" nag screen.
One developer managed to write an app for PPC that runs in the
background and simply clicks the nag screen if it occurs.
As PalmOS is not a multitasking OS, this approach will not work here.
Actually you could implement something similar for PalmOS, though the
actual code would be very different.
I think you should register for a notification when the form loads
and then send through a form close event for that form (assuming the
"OK" button is the default for the 'nag' form). Better than a hack,
but you'll need to implement this as a call back to avoid performance impacts.
I never done this specific trap, but with OS5 one uses notifications
for a lot of the stuff people used to have to handle with hacks.
I admit to not being sure which notification to register for!
Roger Stringer
Marietta Systems, Inc. (www.rf-tp.com)
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