> Thank you very much for the information, Aaron.
ahh... so much for my vacation. i went fishing today.. if that counts..
> One specific question, though -> in cases in the documentation such as
>WinScreenMode, the documentation goes to lengths to say that
> in older versions of the OS, this was ScrDisplayMode. Is this Palm's way of
>basically saying "yes, WinScreenMode is new in OS 3.5,
> but it will also work under older OSes by aliasing to ScrDisplayMode?"
different name, same trap.. just use the new API call :P
> One of the things I noticed was that it was particularly hard with the current
>documentation to determine how something was done
> before the OS 3.5 API, so I've had to assume that except in a very few number of
>cases, there were no analogies and you did
> everything by accessing the hardware. So in that case, MOST of the OS 3.5 api is
>not backwards compatible with older OSes and it's
> just a handful of specific instructions that are.
check the docs.. they say "requires version X.xx" - everything you need
is there.. you just need to look. the .pdf documentation is worth SO
much - you should always have it on hand.
// az
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