I'm looking for hints about how to start the Palm OS Simulator without having to go through the setup screens for language, digitizer, clock, etc. (In this particular case, I'm attempting to start the Treo Simulator.) I've tried the ideas suggested a while back in the archives of -appcreator:lnch (which is accepted, but doesn't appear to have any effect), and -preferredLocale: (which isn't accepted as a valid parameter).
Is there any way of doing this, or is going through the setup screens just something we need to live with?
One you've started the Treo 600 simulator and gotten to the launcher, right click on it and choose "Storage/Save..." and save a SSF file back out to your current folder. Then quit PalmSim, edit the PalmSim.ini file in a text editor, look for the line that reads
LastStorageSnapshot=C:\palmsim\snapshot.ssf
Make a copy of this line and change the leading part to "StorageSnapshotFile=" giving you something that looks like
StorageSnapshotFile=C:\palmsim\snapshot.ssf
Now, when you start PalmSim, it will reload the old set of DBs and be initialized. Note: the SSF files are dependent on the run environment in which PalmSim was started, so a SSF file that works when PalmSim is started from Explorer might not work with a PalmSim that's started from your IDE. They also are very specific to a version of PalmSim and its ROM image.
-- Ben Combee, DTS technical lead, PalmSource, Inc. Read "Combee on Palm OS" at http://palmos.combee.net/
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