--- Robert Brinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, all. My company is converting me into a Palm app developer.
> ...
> So, I need some Palm training. I've looked at the classes
> offered by Palm and Sun, but they focus strictly on C development.
> I've also seen some books on Amazon, like _Palm OS Programming:
> The Developer's Guide, 2nd Edition_. Does anyone have some good
> suggestions on what helped them get started?
The Palm OS API functions can be called from a C++ app in exactly the
same way they can be called from a C app (except sometimes you may have
to add an explicit typecast here and there to make the C++ compiler
happy), so you don't really need a course or book to show you how to do
that. In fact, the extra overhead involved with many of the most
popular features of C++ (e.g., Virtual Method Tables) make it less
suitable for Palm OS development. However, there are many people who
like C++ enough that they do all their Palm development in C++ anyway.
I have learned everything I need to know about Palm OS programming from
Neil's book ("Palm OS Programming: the Developers Guide," now in its
2nd edition) and from John Shettino's "Palm OS Programming for
Dummies," which is now very out of date, plus from reading the
Reference, the Companion(s), the Knowledge Base, the source code to the
built-in apps, and even the OS source code itself, plus from reading
this forum.
If you have any programming experience at all, I think that should be a
sufficient number of sources of information. See the Developer
Documentation page at http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/docs/ if you
think you need more.
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