on 9/3/00 7:37 PM, Dan Samber at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It seems to me that almost all the questions posed are (eventually) solved
> with some kind soul providing a snippet of source code. In the ideal world the
> palm documentation would provide this in addition to the VERY minimal
> description they currently provide!
As a new Palm employee and 3-year veteran of Palm development, I agree. It
isn't that no one at Palm felt it wasn't needed, but rather, there weren't
many folks sitting around idle to work on it. I would love to see more
context in the docs, and I have started working with the doc writers to move
in this direction. It will take some time, but I promise to keep nudging us
in that direction...
> Until this happens... is there some web site or other bit of documentation
> that
> provides what I am describing? Grepping through the example sources can
> be tiring and usually these programs are too complicated to be used optimally.
My search for truth usually goes like this:
1. Search the dev forum archives
2. Search the Knowledge Base
3. Build a file set in CodeWarrior's Search feature of all the Sample Code
(or use a tool like SpeedSearch [Mac], one of the OS built-in search
utilities [all OSs], or grep [where available]).
Now, this seems like a lot of work, but after working for years with
development systems where there was _much_ less to work with, I've found
this approach helpful. The upside is that the OS is simple enough that
you'll find yourself doing this less and less as you go.
Another approach - take the Palm OS Essentials course. In one week, we
address most of the mysterious side effects of the API that developers
commonly struggle with, cover all the CodeWarrior/Debugger/POSE/Constructor
'features,' give you some great reference cards to take home, and you have
the opportunity to hear people like me tell really lame jokes. And we buy
you lunch! Just a thought...
JB
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