Hi, While I am thinking that writing a Chinese OS on top of Palm OS 5 is impossible, several products are already out there.
I believe those Chinese OS needs to patch the WinDrawChars(), FntWordWrap()...etc to add Chinese display and input capabilities to an English OS 5. So is the "patch" mechanism already out there, but just only some developers have acesses to them? Thank you very much. Tony Cheung David Fedor wrote:
I guess that maybe PalmSource should consider a "patch" mechanism for a future Palm OS version that handles things like this better.
Yes, we're doing so, with a new mechanism that will fit the new OS's mechanism. It just didn't make sense to cripple Palm OS 5 by having it continually call from ARM back into 68k code all the time - there's a lot of context to bring up and down. Besides, most hacks assume way too much about the OS and its internal structures, so even if they were called they probably wouldn't work anyway.
-David Fedor
PalmSource, Inc.
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