Hi All, We are going to be releasing some of our tools at the PalmSource developer's conference and I'll be doing a presentation on them. I think that many of you will find the tools really useful so please come to the talk. The talk is at 10:00 pm on Wednesday right after the certification exam and is titled, "Tools for Removing Roadblocks".
I've only got 30 minutes and there is a lot to cover so I will end up primarily touching on the high points but it should give you an idea how to get going. Here is what I'll be talking about: 1. How to integrate PocketPurchase into an application. We have a new single-call interface that makes this easy. This is the only item that requires use of our service. 2. Creating an installer with our free Windows installer builder. The installer builder can generate separate EXEs for each web store automatically. It will install the PocketPurchase components automatically if it detects that the app is PocketPurchase enabled. It can install conduits and Palm Desktop shortcuts. It can also do some cool things like merge optional resources into your main PRC. Great for supporting multiple screen resolutions. 3. Our desktop Palm Data library. This library implements pretty much all of the Palm OS Data Manager and Memory Manager calls, plus a few more useful functions like TimGetSeconds. Using it, you can access PDB/PRC files on the desktop just as you would on the handheld, making it possible to share code between your handheld app and conduit. This library allows us to share code between our handheld app, desktop conduit and Linux back-end server. 4. PNO Glue Builder. Works as either a standalone tool for use with 'make' or as a CodeWarrior plug-in. It creates glue files to dramatically simplify using PNOs from the PACE layer. Using this tool, it took less than 15 minutes to add PNOs to WordSmith to do document compression and decompression. 5. Our Palm OS Language plug-in technology. A number of developers are using this as an easy way to create foreign language overlays. If you also use our installer, the installer will sanity check the overlays and can actually merge the foreign language overlay into the primary PRC file. 6. HotSyncDLLs auto-glue library. Why ship Palm DLLs with your app when the user already has them installed? Link with this library instead and your app will automatically link to the existing DLLs. This has the added advantage that your app can still load if none of the DLLs are present and do something appropriate. The installer, PNO Glue Builder and our language technology is already available online at http://pocketpurchase.com/tools so feel free to have a look now if you like. See you at the conference. Scott Maxwell PocketPurchase, Inc. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
