"elliott ..." wrote:
> hi, i need to make a palm program that will update a table in the palm app
> from a text file (that will change every day) on the users computer every
> time the user syncs his/her palm with their computer. ive been
> working with code warrior for palm(the lite version) and a palm
> IIIxe. Ive been working with pda toolbox, it works great for
> interfaces, but does not seem so great as far integrating any kind of code
> or specific functionality to apps. does anyone know how i can do this and
> what would be best to use to do it?
>
> any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> elliott
This sounds like a conduit thing. You should probably read up on Conduit
development on Palm's site, download the CDK, and get Microsoft Visual C++. You
may also try to write the .pdb file directly, but that's more messy, and still
requires Visual C++.
One other idea, that just occured to me, (it's very messy though): you could
force the users to use a file link into the memopad. Then, when they sync, the
memo will be updated on the Palm. When you run your program, read and process
that data in that memopad field. You may run into problems if the data is
larger than 4K. If you are targetting a consumer audience, this is almost
certainly the wrong thing to do. People get confused when it's not a 1 step
process.
The best solution is to start learning conduits. They're pretty
straightforward.
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Brian Mathis
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