On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Scott Johnson wrote:
> > the tool does not seem to be available for my choice
> > of development platform.
>
> It turns out that Palm's slogan of "tool of choice on the platform of
> choice" means *their* choice. :-)
not all of us agree with the choices our "founders" make - and, we have
to learn to live with them dont we? :) there is always PPC and Symbian
if you get ticked off enough *g* - or, just code your own tools.
ps: it is "PalmSource" :) not "Palm" - *g*
also, for the doco' writers.. page 317 (chapter 11) - maybe an
error in the Programmers Companion (4.0) with the comments of
the second code snippet:
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// Right. DmGet1Resource searches both databases.
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now, if you look at the documentation for DmGet1Resource, it
specifically states:
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Purpose: Search the most recently opened resource database and
return a handle to a given the resource type and ID.
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documentation says DmGet1Resource searched both (overlay + prc)
where, DmGet1Resource says it only searches the most recently
opened resource database.. anyone see some confusion here? :)
"Search the most.." means, the last one opened.. not all open :)
there is an error somewhere :)
it would also be nice to have meaningful names sometimes?
who chose DmGet1Resource and DmGetResource for names? :P maybe
it would be better to have *one* API - which, would remove any
confusion in this matter:
MemHandle DmGetResource(DmResType type,
DmResID resID,
Boolean searchAllOpen);
i dont want to get started in picking on documentation and API
calls now - its time for bed :) but, these two API calls have
been confusing for some fellow developers i have worked with.
// az
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