Hi Aaron,
I have interest to port (or develop a new version) of the POL based
on your SHARK. Can you send me some documentation about your
library?
Best regards,
Ricardo W. Hildebrand
www.palmsoft.com.br
+55 48 9957-8844
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Ardiri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: [ANN] SHARK - cross platform development
> > Can you point us to the API spec, so we may see the exact
> > capabilities of the platform?
>
> the SHARK development kits provides only the basic BIOS level of
> multi-platform development, that is, basic input and output
> functions. this refers to graphics, input (stylus/key) and file
> input/output. [networking in development]
>
> additional libraries will be built on top of SHARK that will
> implement database management, user interface controls (GUI) and
> any other higher level libraries to work on top of the basic core.
>
> these libraries are being worked on, either by us, or by people
> willing to take advantage of SHARK and include such libraries for
> 3rd party licensing. the SHARK development kit is very early in
> its development stages, and, is more focused on entertainment
> titles right now
>
> --> we developed it for our own use, but, after showing a few people
> we realised it can be used in a much broader sense :)
>
> > Specifically, I'm interested if it supports database storage,
> > sockets, and web services.
>
> we have abstracted basic File IO - for example, on Palm - files
> can be handled in one of three ways (file stream, resource db,
> or... VFS) - developer just used _FileOpen() API and SHARK does
> the rest of the work to open it appropriately. same thing happens
> on other platforms where relevant for other operations.
>
> our first intentions were to not have a networking component,
> however it has been requested by a few - and, we'll be inplementing
> a berkley style sockets API for network communications.
>
> ideally, the concept is as follows:
>
> <pre>
> application.c -----> SHARK
> - 3rd party libraries (UI, DB, WWW)
>
> |
> |
>
> native platform
> </pre>
>
> a single source code base, compiled natively for each destination
> platform (statically linked library implementing DAL). if your
> interested in developing a 3rd party library - now is the time
> to really put your hands up. it should interface directly with
> the SHARK interface.
>
> we are developing what we need personally of course :)
>
> if the demand is there, we can focus on other components - but,
> its a great opportunity for other developers to get involved as
> well - to provide the libraries most people will be requiring :)
>
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> Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> CEO - CTO +46 70 656 1143
> Mobile Wizardry http://www.mobilewizardry.com/
>
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