Well, using GCC or Codewarrior, you could do your project completely in
C or C++ using the PalmOS 3.5 SDKs and net libraries...I'd also look into
supporting the Palm V OmniSky or Palm V with one of the third party modems.
There are already a few chat programs available, I think there might be one
or two on www.palmgear.com . (Just to give you an idea of how the
technology works)
Since you're college students, I'd advise GCC or Codewarrior Lite...and
since
it sounds like you may be marketing this solution, I'd say stick with GCC.
www.falch.net is a good resource for GCC information.
I'd guess a J2ME conduit could work pretty well for you in this case...
Delve into the PalmOS manuals and Knowledge Base. Also, check out the
O'Reilly guide to PalmOS programming. Here's a link to a web preview:
http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/docs/devguide/TableOfContents.htm
If you have any conduit questions that aren't answered in the archives
(check the link at the bottom of this email, I prefer eScribe, personally),
post them to the conduit forum. There are a number of people currently
implementing J2ME web-based conduits.
Hope that helps!
-Rus
http://www.act.avnet.com/
>Hi, I am a CSSE student at Seattle University, and for our
>Senior project,
>we have been asked by the Dreamsurfer network to develop/port
>a web based
>chat program for children who have cystic fibrosis onto a palm
>OS based hand
>held (probably a visor with a modem attachment, it looks like
>the palm VII
>may be too proprietary for us.).
>
>To be honest, none of us have any idea as of where to start,
>and have no
>palm experience. I was hoping that someone could point us in the right
>direction as to what dev. language to use. We are not looking
>for solutions
>to our problem, we would just like to get a direction/opinions on what
>languages might work for us.
>
>We have spent a good chunk of time looking at the different
>languages like
>J2ME, C++, etc, but are not sure what we should be looking for....
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated by this group of students.
>
>Margaret Streckenbach
>
>
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