Hi Stephane, Yes, sockets use whatever you have connected to for the transport. It will be much simpler than the bluetooth stuff.
Cobalt is OS 6, but Garnet (OS5) and Cobalt will co-exist because of the hardware requirements on Cobalt. Cobalt is available now, but I don't think any hardware has been announced from any vendor as of yet. Cobalt will be a mult-tasking, multi-threaded, thread secure operating system. Applications will run in separate address spaces and will no longer stop running when focus is taken away from them. The whole nature of how memory is dealt with, including access to devices such as the screen, will change the way we develop Palm applications. In many ways this is all a great turn for the better, if it is not for the past history of the existing devices. Cobalt will still run Garnet software, but not visa-versay. So the decision for whether to develop a "protein" application (one specifically written for Cobalt) is going to be driven by the economics of who is going to buy your software versus the hardware requirements. If your software needs to be run on a device that has the capabilties of Cobalt, then you will write it for Cobalt. Otherwise my opinion is that applications will still be written for Garnet for a long time. Sorry for getting so wordy. Jon "Stephane Pinel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Le 29 f�vr. 04, � 07:36, Jonathan Niedfeldt a �crit : > Hi Stephane, > > The btXXX() functions give you the ability to interact directly with > the > bluetooth capabilities of discovery etc. If you do not want to do > that, you > can simply use the socket capabilities and do a network connection. > > The user would be responsible to connect up with whatever network > capability > that they have for their Palm. > > It is also a much simplier interface to program for if you are only > going to > "play" with networking. > > Thank you very much Jon ! It seems that using sockets capabilities will be just fine (and simpler that dealing with low level BlueTooth routines). So whatever the user choose to connect to the network (including Bluetooth) sockets will be able to work ? Sorry for these apparently basic questions, but I'm really newbie and there are a lot of different docs on PalmSource. An other point is 'Cobalt': I saw several docs that refer to 'Cobalt', but if I understand well, 'Cobalt' is something like Palm OS 6 ? Is it already released ? Available for T3 ? Again, thank you very much. Stephane. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
