HI, I hear you. This greatly limit developers what they can do by hacking the OS. There won't be any good hacks for OS5.0 and much of the hacks we will miss.
Palm engineers many times suggested to use notifications and you can't replace Hacks with notifications. It just doesn't work the same. First of all there isn't Enough notification events and secondly you never know if the notifications will Ever come to your app. Oddly SysGetTrapAddress() is implemented. Regards, -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Faupel [mailto:palmos@;micropraxis.com] Sent: October 31, 2002 11:05 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: PalmOS 5 lack of hacks I've written a hack that provides Esperanto support on the Palm. This involves modifying the behaviour of the WinDraw... calls to display the accented characters, the Str and Txt calls to implement the correct sorting order for Esperanto, plus assorted other calls to add support for Graffiti entry of Esperanto characters. I've just found out that SysSetTrapAddress is no longer supported in Palm OS 5 (even though it's still in the Palm OS Reference - why is that?) and that we're supposed to use "notifications" instead. Since none of these notifications seem to have much to do with any of these functions (or for that matter with any input or user-interface related events), does anyone have any suggestions how I'm supposed to do this for OS 5? Incidentally, it's not just a simple matter of installing a new font, partly because legacy Esperanto encoding systems involve translating digraphs (e.g. cx) into single accented characters, and partly because of the sort order issues. Cheers, Matthew -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
