Fernando, >Putting the cross platform issue aside, what I was envisioning was >something like i have done before with VB
Then also consider HB++ Enterprise Edition with their PalmServer product too. See www.handheld-basic.com You'll get a VB-like IDE, complete socket support, classes to access remote databases, SQL access to data, conduit generation, etc. >Let's say in the App you would only have to enter the info of widgets as >they come in and send this info to the server and get the inventory number >back as real time as possible, That is a rather vague description of "info". If you are just putting up some simple forms the user completes, then you send off that data to the server over a TCP/IP socket to a waiting server app which processes it and fires back new data to get displayed, then you can pretty easily do this with even the $149 NSB/Palm from www.nsbasic.com/palm They have a library extension available using TCP/IP sockets with a demo project which talks to a server app written in VB. >is this just too complicated and would take more than 4 weeks? The description is simply too vague to give even a shot in the dark. If what you are looking for is a simple front-end user interface sending requests off to a server, letting it do all the dirty work and returning results to get displayed, than you could do it in well under 4 weeks. Or not. YMMV. There are simply too many variables and unknowns with what you've described to give a meaningful answer. I've done comple TCP/IP client apps using sockets to exchange data in real-time to a server when available, and local databases to validate/display databasees while the network was down then batch transactions back to the server once available again. And had it running in under 4 weeks, all while using C instead of a more RAD environment like NSB or HB++. But I'm already familiar with the platform. >I had thought that PDA had evolved more than what they actually have.. You can do some incredibly powerful stuff on PDAs, and many of us on this list will have some very complex applications Both NSSB/Palm and HB++ will let you use a variation of Basic for doing it, with the HB++ Professional or Enterprise Edition giving a much higher level of classes for doing work for you (for a price). Most people on this forum will develop complex applications in C simply because at the time it was about the only way to get the power and performance required YMMV. Doug -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
