Thanks for your comments. I'm not quite to the point where I will be developing enterprise level applications. My plan is to work on a project with a friend that will run on his Palm. I believe he has an older device that uses 3.x. I doubt I will need to support versions earlier than that. Recently, I have been programming primarily in Java. When a new version of Java is released, they sometimes change the .class format and add switches to the compiler in order to compile to earlier formats. I just wanted to know if there were any similar issues with the PRC file format.
Again, thanks for your input. I'll be home coding as soon as I get off work! Layne On 6/23/05, Robert Moynihan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Layne Lund wrote: > > >Oh, is there anything special I need to do when I compile my programs > >to ensure that my programs will run on older devices? I use > >prc-tools. Is there a -target command-line switch or something > >similar to make sure the PRC file is in the correct format? Or more > >to the point, is there a difference in the PRC format for different > >versions of Palm OS? > > > > > There's no special switch to use. You just have to make sure that you > have used API calls that are supported on any version that you want your > app to run on. So that means reading the docs to see if any of the > functions warn about incompatible versions. The best advice is probably > to simply run your app on all the emulator versions that you want to > support, and see what happens. You'll find that it probably won't run > on the earliest OS versions, unless you have been careful from the > start. If you want to support a broad range of devices, then that > sometimes means rewriting your code, so as to avoid many of the nice, > new functions. Bob. > > > -- > For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, > please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
