From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm using CW Release 5 for Palm Computing Platform. > > Has anyone upgraded to 9? I just got approval to write my first app, > and I'm wondering if the 199.99US is worth the upgrade? > IMHO, yes. A whole stock of old irritations and faults go away (unfortunately, in some cases, to be replaced by new irritations and faults) and overall it's a more complete, better integrated set of tools. Things like the integration of the PalmOS documentation with the CW IDE so that you can highlight a Palm OS API call and hit F1 is a good step forwards.
Irritations might be my lack of understanding but they're things like: - CW retains highlights in every window so if you've got an error window open from a compile you can't use the 'highlight and F1' to look up an API call - Visual Studio will respond to an F1 using the word under the cursor, but CW requires you to highlight the word, an inconsistency that causes much swearing when moving from tool to tool. - the 'add files' command opens the CW program folder when it used to open the project folder. Since people rarely store source code in the CW folder it's an annoying waste of time. - Constructor still has the same clumsiness in the image editing area but most of it's bugs have disappeared while the promised text-based replacement - PilRC Designer - is poorly designed, buggy and incomplete. You can see that, compared to some of the problems in the past, what I'm complaining about are smaller problems than were there in the past and if you're currently using CW I think the upgrade is worth $199. Chris Tutty -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
