Hi. I use Palm OS 5. Is there a possiblity to open an URL given by my own application in the Web Browser ? To ask the question in a different way: How can I terminate my application, and start the Web Browser with an URL which was given by my own application ?
Sure. You just need to find a compatible web browser app on your device, then use SysUIAppSwitch to call it with the sysCmdAppGotoURL launch code (I may have misspelled that -- see SystemMgr.h). I talk about using this mechanism to call Web Clipping in my book "Palm OS Web Applications Developer's Guide", and it also works for most of the newer browsers.
Or is it even possible to keep my own application running in the background when the Web Browser starts ? I once saw a MP3 Player which was able to play in the background. But as much as I know Palm OS 5 isn't really capable of mulittasking.
Nope. The MP3 players work because there's explicit support for background sound threads. For normal apps, you can't stick around while the web browser runs -- for one thing, most browsers don't have a mechanism to return to the caller; there's no way for the user to actually tell it to quit other than switching to another application.
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