On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Peter Epstein wrote: > You can NOT safely assume that color devices use a specific SED chip. New > devices are constantly coming to market, from Palm, Sony, and others. The > rule should always be that you first check out what you're running on, and > only if you KNOW you've got a specific kind of hardware do you start poking > around with it. Otherwise, you fall back to a slower but safe solution that > uses the existing Palm OS APIs.
now, when will palm implement something like a feature for this? > When a new device comes along, you may have to update your app in order to > get your app to take advantage of it's graphics hardware. Better that than > the alternative: your app assumes the new device has some hardware that it > in fact doesn't have, so it crashes. > > The question then becomes how to test various aspects of the hardware. This > has been discussed on the forum before, and the answers aren't always as > good as I think they could be. > > The Astraware folks gave an excellent presentation at the last PalmSource > conference in San Jose that covered this topic. i have the presentation.. doesn't say anything about detecting SED controller chips.. there are a lot of techniques they dont even discuss in their presentation(s) ... maybe they'll care to cover some advanced topics in the future? // az [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ardiri.com/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
