"DIAMOND JEFF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> This gets more amazing all the time! It's practically ALREADY in the
Palm.
>
> I have to ask - I seem to have missed out on all this detail and I'm
wondering
> where it's presented. I have the OS4 SDK and all the documentation for it
> available on the Palm Dev Seeding area. But I seem to be mising a lot.
>
> Where is the best place to find low level detailed information about OS4?
The header files for the PalmOS 4 SDK have things not mentioned yet in the
docs. Read and enjoy. Also see the presentations from PalmSource 2000,
downloadable at www.palmsource.com.
As for the glue stuff I mentioned -- after hearing about the new accessor
functions, I suggested adding the glue code to David Fedor outside the
convention hall. He thought it might be a good idea, then it looks like
John Marshall went ahead and implemented them.
> I don't know why, but I'm finding it a bit strssful trying to keep up with
the
> dizzying pace the Palm is evolving - and this is NOTHING like what happens
> with OS 5. After the transition to OS 5, will we get a bit of a breather?
We'll probably get a breather for a while after 4.0 comes out. The only big
thing in the pipe that I know of is Bluetooth, which is semi-supported in 4,
but the libraries won't be available until hardware ships which will be
months after 4.0 arrives.
> I can see it now...
> "Well, actually Jeff, if all goes well, after OS 5 we will then switch
> to the EPOC API...." ;)
Ouch!!! Lets hope not. I do not like programming for EPOC. Having to tell
the OS about all your memory allocations so it can clean up after you if it
decides to kill you isn't a nice task. Having to implement a compiler that
matches the exact C++ ABI of the version of GCC they picked to base
everything on can't be much fun either.
--
Ben Combee
Veriprise Wireless <http://www.veriprise.com>
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