Howdy!
I have a personal grudge against VB (it was forced upon me during highschool
and I've had an aversion to it ever since, besides the fact that it's from
Microsoft) but I love Palm programming. I have heard about VB tools for
Palm, though using them would incur a large amount of overhead in your Palm
application. Palm apps are deisgned for speed and size - most of my
applications are around 9K, the larger ones 28K.
AppForge is the only IDE that uses Visual Basic for the Palm.
http://www.appforge.com/
> I am also looking for more information regarding choosing a development
> environment in general - I seems most of you use something called Code
> Warrior.
CodeWarrior was the original development tool. CodeWarrior started as the
development enviroment for Macintosh and spread. I use GCC (it's free) under
Linux - but using CYGWIN (or some other acronym ;) you can use the GCC tools
under Windows. GCC is the standard compiler for all that is free, from small
utilities to complete operating systems (Linux uses it to compile the
kernel).
> I am familiar with both Visual Basics and the syntax of C++. I
> would like something that can take care of my visual and graphical design
> at design time (as opposed to run-time), and also prefer something event
> driven to sequential programming.
99% of the time you design your user interfaces beforehand. There are tools
available in the API to design UIs at runtime, but I've never needed to use
them. Also, PalmOS is event driven. Period. Plain C is what I reccomend,
as C++ more than doubles my 9K program size, just by turning it on.
> What language does this forum generally use?
Linux / GCC / Plain C, using PilRC to compile resources into my application.
PilRC has a few tools available to graphically design your forms (PilRC uses
text files to compile resources), the one I sometimes use is Guikachu.
CodeWarrior has the benefit of it's been around longer, and has a
substantially better resource editor.
> Finally, what is the difference between the Palm OS Emulator, and the
> Simulator?
Emulator lets you test your software on older (pre OS5) device ROMs. The
Simulator is what you use to test OS5. You'll need to read up a bit on the
differences between OS4 and 5 (one of the main ones being it's endian-ness
and CPU archatecture).
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