At 12:28 PM 1/10/01 -0000, you wrote:
>I need some advice as to what version of PalmOS i should use.
>
Emile,
This is my take on the problem. I myself am just starting to learn how to
program the little guy. The first program I wrote, which I am not sure I
can say it is ready to go from beta to final, is hiding in
http://www.afn.org/~raub/dev/palm, if you are curious. I originally worte
it using the 3.1SDK. But, after talking to people here and in the
newsgroups at massena, I went to 3.5. However, I kept using the
instructions that were compatible with the Evil O'Reilly book and would run
in my Palm V under 3.1. Insterestingly enough, I found yesterday that the
program runs quite happily under 2.0... at least in the emulator. I have
not tried 1.0 yet though ;)
What does this have to do with your problem? Well, if you use, say, SDK3.5
(and probably 4), you can write code that will at the very least work all
the way down to 2.0. My feeling is that if you do indeed want to support
most Palms, you should at least make sure your code will work under 3.0.
About the problems you are having, I myself doubt I can help you with them;
there are people here much more qualified than me for that. If those
problems are indeed due to limitations of the PalmOS 3.1, then you may have
to either cut down on your base or see if you can find another approach.
That said, when you said
>I am currently using Code warrior R6 with palmos 3.1. I keeping getting
>problems which i believe are fixed in the later version.
it sounds like what you really meant was "I am currently using Code warrior
R6 with the SDK 3.1." If that is the case, going to SDK 3.5 will make your
life easier without sacrificing support to older OSes. This is, of course,
a wild guess here =)
>What exactly is the relationship between the rom version and palmos version.
>
If you go to http://www.palmos.com/alliance/resources/ and then into the
palm rom page (http://www.palmos.com/alliance/resources.cgi/roms/), it will
show up which rom originally come with which Palm device.
>What should i look out for when using palmos 3.5 if i want it to work on the
>widest range of palm models.
>
I would say try to be sure the function you are using will not work only
in, say, OS 3.5.
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