So POL is a third-party library then?  For some reason I assumed it
was something developed by Palm(Source?).  That's what I get for
assuming ;-)

On 6/26/05, Ben Combee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 10:05 PM 6/26/2005, you wrote:
> >Are there any plans to port POL to prc-tools so that it can be used
> >with the new Palm Development Suite?  Personally, I like the whole
> >object-oriented paradigm.  From your brief explanation here, it sounds
> >like OO provides a great way to hide the differences in the API
> >changes.
> 
> Not that I know.  In my opinion, the C++ support in prc-tools isn't quite
> able to handle POL very well -- there's no exception handling support for
> 68K code, something that POL uses.  It's also more difficult to partition
> code into sections, something that POL uses in its static library setup to
> be able to pull a lot of code into a program.  The author did look at a
> prc-tools version a few years ago, but decided not to go ahead with it at
> the time.  He's the one who has rights to any future versions of the library.
> 
> -- Ben Combee, Senior Software Engineer, palmOne, Inc.
>    "Combee on Palm OS" weblog: http://palmos.combee.net/
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> 
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