Hi Oscar,
> hi Tony,
> i have evaluated AppForge and i found it a nice ans easy tool for
> developing.
> After your mail i checked NSBasic's site, and found it
> 'basic' compared with
> Appforge, and its associated docs and utilitaries.
> Since i have not yet decided what tool to buy, i would appreciate your
> comments of why are you migrating from AppForge to NSBasic. Is because
> appforge support, features, price?
Actually we decided to port from AppForge to C++ - I simply wish our
"experiment" with VB had been with NSBasic and not AppForge, in hindsight,
for the following reasons:
1) We were forced to port our application from PalmOS to Pocket PC (due to
Symbol discontinuing the 2D PalmOS platform), and didn't appreciate the
$25/unit license fee for the required Booster executable on the Symbol 2800
platform.
2) NSBasic has a smaller runtime requirement (<100K) as opposed to AppForge
(about 500K.)
3) AppForge on PalmOS was pretty slow. NSBasic claims to be faster, though
I have not tested it.
AppForge does have a few advantages - we had identically the same code
running on Pocket PC as we had on PalmOS. The single-source option was
nice - I don't believe NSBasic can do the same. All we had to do was modify
the fonts and form sizes at runtime, and AppForge even provided sample code
to do it. Additionally, both PalmOS and Pocket PC code produced identical
PDB files, which simplified our conduit development. The AppForge tech
support team was very responsive to some unique needs and even did some
custom programming for us. All in all, I give AppForge an "A" for support,
"A" for ease of development, "B" for cross-platform compatibility, "C" for
speed/optimization, and failed them on the unit cost.
In the end, the $25/unit license fee killed our AppForge plans. The
other programmer that I'm working with is quickly coming up to speed in C++.
We're currently just going to deal with having two sets of source code for
two different platforms - at least both are written in C++ so we can share
some source between them.
HTH!
- Tony
=======================================
Tony Goggin, Technical Director
Salamander Technologies
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.salamandertechnologies.com
=======================================
--
For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see
http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
