On 6/23/05, Ben Combee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 03:31 PM 6/23/2005, you 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? > > The PRC format is consistent among all versions of Palm OS, at least for > 68K applications. To run on older versions, you need to make sure that you > don't call new APIs without first checking the OS version, and you need to > include low-density bitmaps in any bitmap families you use. > Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. For the time being, I plan on developing 68k apps. Hopefully I can buy a newer palm soon and develop ARM applications as well.
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