> I am new to Palm development and I was wondering which IDE you > recommend, MetroWorks or Eclipse?
I've worked with both and I recommend you Eclipse. I started with CodeWarrior but it kept annoying me and introducing difficult-to-find errors in the silly binary files it uses for the resource data, so I gave up and decided to try something else. Switching to PODS wasn't exactly trivial - it uses a different naming convention for the constants, so I essentially had to re-create and re-write my whole project - but once this was done, everything has been much easier and nicer. My only problem with PODS is that its debugger doesn't see the global and static variables, which is an annoyance. There are a few other minor ones - for instance, you can't change the order of the menu items on a menu bar with drag-n-drop; if you want to change their order, you basically have to delete them and re-create them in the desired new order. Other than that, I've been very satisfied by PODS - while CodeWarrior was literally annoying me every time I used it. Also, since PODS uses the GCC compiler, IMO they really should have used the RCP format for the resources too; this would have provided much better portability. But at least they use a text file (XML file) for that purpose - not some silly proprietary binary crap like CodeWarrior that you can't touch by hand easily. Regards, Vesselin -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
