As a C programmer with a fair amount of experience, I've still found the Palm platform to be somewhat challenging because of the differences in what standard functions are available. It's not that the Palm API is hard though, it is generally easy, and the documentation generally easy to read and complete. The problem for me was simply not knowing what standard functions were available and which ones were not(or were renamed with a slightly different parameter list). As a matter of fact, I could use a chart that shows standard C library function to palm function map along with differences in their arguments. I've seen limited charts here and there, but nothing even close to complete.
My $.02 Keith M > The only counter argument I have for that is that I have noticed that > people who think they are C programmers often have a lot of difficulty > with subtle implementation differences in the Palm API functions (e.g., > strncpy vs. StrNCopy, etc.). Those who start using the Palm spelling > for everything have less difficulty with this because they are > constantly reminded (by spelling changes) that they are *not* using the > standard C library functions. > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
