Re: PalmOS 5 lack of hacks

[Ken Krugler]

At 12:01am -0800 02-11-11, Palm Developer Forum digest wrote:

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.

If you implement an appropriate locale module, then you don't need to patch to support proper drawing & measuring of text. There are still issues with features such as full-screen handwriting recognition, where no OS support is provided.

-- Ken

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Ken Krugler
TransPac Software, Inc.
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