"Brian Mathis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Jeff Ishaq wrote:
> > But who's to say how much space is available, and how much of it might
be
> > eaten up by PalmOS updates or other Palm stuff? I wonder what happens
if
> > you decide to put your app in FLASH, and a PalmOS update eats into a few
> > hundred bytes of your app. Yuck.
>
> *You* (developer) don't decide to put your app in flash, a *user* with the
> necessary tools (flashpro) decides to do it. PalmOS updates don't eat
> into flash. They reside in memory like everything else. An OS upgrade,
> however, completely wipes out the flash.
TRG has a product called InstallPro. This lets you group together one or
more PDBs and into an Installer.PRC. Upon transferring this Installer.PRC
onto the device, it will self-expand when tapped. One of the options in
InstallPro is the destination of the PDBs - FLASH, or RAM.
So this tool allows a developer to distribute an application comprised of
one or more PDBs that will install themselves into flash. Kind of a
frightening tool. I think it's more aimed at TRG's own line of flash-savvy
Palm devices.
-Jeff Ishaq
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