On 6/21/07, Jeff Loucks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Beg to differ.
Glue APIs have been a part of the Palm OS offering since at least OS
3.5. They are neither unsupported nor undocumented. You'll find them
documented right along with the other APIs. Yes, they require you to
include a static library in your link, but there's nothing difficult
or unsupported about that.
They aren't your standard trap based API, but they are still APIs.
They are routines that you call that wrap earlier APIs in a way that
makes them more useful, updated with new or extended features and
usually backward compatible.
you are a newbie. :)
some of us still remember programming the original palm os 1.0
with monochrome screens and a 32k dynamic heap.
Glue was introduced because all of us had our own "glue" hacks.
it was also common that Glue API's would be released too late,
so we all still had to have our own versions.
palmsource also only provided Glue libraries for 68K.
my current palm applications are written in ARM natively, there
is no MemGluePtrNew available for me in ARM - so in order to
reproduce the API, its important to know how it is defined and
what the basic concepts are behind it.
#define memNewChunkFlagAllowLarge 0x1000
it was an internal use flag, you wont find it in any headers.
we were using it is 2001+
http://news.palmos.com/read/messages?id=93048#93048
MemGluePtrNew was introduced very late
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg75924.html
i have PalmOSGlue.h from Palm OS SDK 5.0 (111823) and
MemGluePtrNew is not defined there. so now you know why
we had to write our own.. i think it was added 5.x+
granted, all new developers.. they are being handed all our
problems in a nice little package to make life easier for them :)
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// Aaron Ardiri
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