At Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 09:39:06AM +0530, Prakash wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Searching google with for "testing bluetooth application palm
> emulator" returns with the follwing link as first result.
> 
> http://beecon.de/howto/pose_bt/
> 
> And it seems he tested only in linux:) 

I'm well aware of the OS4 emulator, but I wasn't sure if the Bluetooth addon for OS4 
was
100% compatible with the built-in Bluetooth library in OS5.  Also, I thought it would 
be
more productive to test on something which looked/worked vaguely like the real device,
so that I can do things like take up all the screen space, such that my application 
doesn't
end up looking "so last year." *cough* like most others *cough* :-)

> Also you must know this useful page if you do anything with bluetooth on Palm.
> http://www.whizoo.com
> 
> >so I guess this equates to Palm not caring for
> > developers in general. *grumble*
> > 
> Is it becoming a trend to add this line to the post? or you expect
> folks from palm(source) would reply for your grumble? ;)

I don't know if it's a trend, because I'm new here.  I was just reflecting on a
weekend's investigation.

It would be nice to see more tools targeting Linux, especially because of the 
screwed-up
system we currently have, where PODS is built in Eclipse, and prc-tools, and Cygwin (to
simulate *nix), but is bundled for Windows only.  Hell, I even have an ARM compiler on
my Linux box already, for compiling apps for the GBA, so why can't I make use it of 
that
for the Palm?

And don't get me started on having to run Cygwin on Windows.  My Windows is already 
running
under VMware, and I didn't boot VMware in order to run *nix on Windows on Linux. :-)

Who knows, someone out there is probably hard at work getting these tools to work 
natively
rather than though various compatibility layers... but until then, I guess I'll have to
live with the delightfully antique OS4 emulator. :-/

TX

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