Thanks for your answers, Aryeh Teitelbaum Jerusalem College of Technology - Machon Lev
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Combee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 6:39 PM Subject: Re: Palm OS low lwvwl funcionality > At 11:41 AM 5/24/2004, you wrote: > >It does the developer program gives access also to the sources of System > >Programs, like Contacts ? > > Yes, the source for the PIM applications is part of the sample code that's > in the Palm OS SDK. Not all licensees use this source directly; some make > their own versions of these apps that may or may not use the same database > format. > > >In which program-language is the Palm-OS wrote ? > > Most of Palm OS is written in C, with some assembly. Newer versions of > Palm OS may have parts implemented in C++, but the interface to the > programmer is a C API. > > >3. > >Is the source fully documented ? > > No. It is documented, but there aren't comments on every line telling you > exactly why its doing what it's doing. > > >There is a way to execute a macro in parallel of a system application like > >Contacts ? For example a macro that runs Contacts and adds a new contact > >with specific details (may be even without needing the OS sources). > > There are ways to add an entry to the contacts database, ranging from using > the exchange manager to send a VCard object to that application, to > directly altering the database used by the app. > > >There is a way to run two applications at the same time ? > > Not in the traditional sense. There are notification mechanisms that let > applications that aren't active participate in activities of the device. > > -- Ben Combee, DTS technical lead, PalmSource, Inc. > Read "Combee on Palm OS" at http://palmos.combee.net/ > > > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
