Thank you very much !!!! =)
Arona Ndiaye,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Maxwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 4:01 AM
Subject: RE: Built-in Palm Apps (Important correction)
> Arona Ndiaye,
>
> The difficulties you have are:
> (for general purpose PRCs)
> You are _not_ entitled to use the Palm creator IDs (in lower case)
> when you distribute your own PRCs.
> That is why Palm requires you to register a creator ID
> with them for each application you distribute.
> So trying to match creator ID with someone else's PRC
> and use same or newer version won't be a option.
>
> Answer 1) you would see both Date Book and also the app you built
>
> Using the Address Book or Date Book PRC (Palm applications) as an example:
> Several different conduits and PRCs change the Palm applications data.
> Some PRCs keep separate copies of the Palm applications data
> while others set bits or add fields unused/unknown by original Palm code.
> Either of these approaches involve overhead and/or potential of
> not working with newer versions of Address Book or Date Book.
> Also there can be a large number of test combinations among 3rd party
> substitutes because it would be nice if they were not only compatible
> with Address Book and Date Book but also be compatible with each other.
>
> (special purpose PRCs)
> A few developers on this forum did applications for companies that
> did not want the user to add or change programs on the Palm OS devices.
> Sometimes they would create their own ROM images that did not have some
> or all of the standard Palm OS applications but instead had maybe only
> the 1 application of interest.
>
> In either case I know of NO other companies being allowed to build PRC
>
> applications that use the _same_ creator IDs as Palm uses.
>
> Answer 2) Not sure exactly how launcher would handle 2 applications
> with same IDs and different versions. You could do this experiment
> yourself.
>
> Regards (from one who has built an Address Book like PRC),
> Randy Maxwell
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arona2 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 9:19 AM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: Re: Built-in Palm Apps (Important correction)
>
>
> What a blunder that was !!! I did not mean 'replace' in the Rom but the
> wanted functionality follows:
>
> 1. You only see one 'Date Book.prc' for example...
> 2. Only the most recent one is launched when you click on 'Date Book.prc'
in
> the
> launcher view.
>
> Arona Ndiaye,
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
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