On Sep 15, 2007, at 2:14 AM, Ken Hoyes wrote:
Sorry but that was not intended as a put-down. I've been sitting with the manuals in front of me for a week. The C++ manual led me to string functions of the type I mentioned while the Palm manuals don't even mention them. Hence my confusion and frustration.
C++ string functions are part of the standard C++ library, which includes STL and a few other bits. PODS and prc-tools do not provide an implementation of the standard C++ library, nor does PalmOS have this library on the device. This is partially because the tools are quite old, and partially because STL can cause unacceptable and unpredictable memory requirements for a small handheld device.
You can use your C++ manual to learn C++ syntax, but you can pretty much be certain that any functions described in the manual will not work in your PalmOS programs. For string handling, the Palm SDK does have string functions, such as StrCopy, StrCat, etc. These mostly mirror the similarly-named functions in the standard C library, and these are the functions that you should become familiar with for doing string handling on PalmOS.
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