I weaseled into an AppForge project six months ago, and the here is my two cents worth about it:
runtime is indeed 350K! ...so I will never be able to free up enough space on my Palm III to run any AppForge proggies. They "gave" me a Handspring Visor for the project, so I can at least run the program on a real pda, but there is a noticeable lag time between when you tap the icon and when the first screen shows up. One of the nice things is you can read and write PDBs from a desktop application, which is great for making canned pdbs. no support for passing user-defined data types (read 'structs') to functions. the widgets are all non-palm, but they are consistent, and only a couple of them take a while to figure out (AFOwnerDrawGrid!). In my spare time I have been learning how to use pilrc and gcc; I like it better though the learning curve is a little steeper. If I were starting from scratch tomorrow I would have gone with C, PocketC, or NSBasic just to retain the wider potential client base that might not be ready to part with their Palm III or V yet. (If only I could write Palm proggies in PERL!) David Martin qrsparadigm.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > Behalf Of David Orriss Jr > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 3:46 AM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: Re: using Visual Basics to program Palm OS [long] > > > On Tuesday, December 10, 2002 12:20 AM, > Matthew Bevan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > AppForg[e] (www.appforge.com) > > Very professional looking, and uses VB structure. If I was to > > recommend a BASIC product (which I'm not ;) I'd go with this one. > > > > You're kidding right? You might as well have recommended > VB.NET for writing Kernel extensions to WindowsXP... It has > a bloated runtime, doesn't use the PalmOS UI-widget set at > all, and is *slower* than NSBasic. Heck I think it's slower > than the PalmOS itself but don't hold me to that.. ;) > > Look you're entitled to your opinions, of course, but this > recommendation is > *totally* out of left field, IMHO. > > > -- > David Orriss Jr. > http://www.davenet.net > http://www.codeskanks.com > > Please email me if you want my ICQ/AIM/IM ID's. > > > > -- > 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/
