While I personally like your approach, it certainly does not apply to the
majority of the Palm users, who are far from your or my technical level.
What if your Pilot is not in the cradle when you try to hotsync? what if
there is an error during upload? do people really need to have two separate
ways of installing - one full and one partial? What are the differences in
the two cases?
Your definition of uploading a file assumes too many things, because you
know you can handle exceptions. Most people can't.
>From that point of view, AppInst is really doing a good job. What I think
needs to improve, is having people to do the installation themselves - even
as simple as it is in AppInst. And that's why we developed Pilot Catapult
;-) (self-promoting style here borrowed from another forum member).
- bobby
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Carrigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 4:37 PM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Re: installing an app without HotSync
Brian Mathis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I guess I'm curious about why you'd need to go through all the trouble to
> avoid a hotsync to install something? It's the standard way to install
> stuff. Since I can't think of any reasons, I'm curious about the reasons
> of people trying to do this.
If i want to get a .prc onto my pilot quickly, I don't want to drop it
into the hotsync folder, hit the hotsync button, and wait for it to sync
every database on my Pilot. Especially if I've also got some kind of
conduit that takes a while to sync (avantgo, email, etc.). I also don't
want to disable all my conduits just so I can quickly sync a single
file.
I'm a unix command-line guy, and I really like doing
pilot-xfer -i somefile.prc
I think windows users would also find it convenient if they could
right-click a .prc and do "Send To Palm" and it would immediately
install that file on the Palm, completely bypassing the Hotsync manager.
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