Our viewer included on the ROM of the T5 and LifeDrive, used to render
Addit has a lot of functionality that makes it useful as an html front
end for 3rd party applications. We have been planning to publicly
release our SDK to allow developers to take advantage of the viewer
within their applications but the lack of business case means it keeps
getting pushed back. We have provided it to some friends and if you
take a look at the application 'Amy's Knowledge Tree' you will see the
sorts of things that can be done. Addit itself is just rendered html.
The viewer takes care of the database calls and launches various API's.
If you are interested in playing with the SDK within your application
contact me offline. The Addit conduits will also be available to
developers for use within their application for system and other updates.
James Fisher
Bluefish Wireless
Kristian Austad wrote:
I noticed Aaron Ardiri made some appearances in the forum recently, I'm posting
this in the hope you might have thoughts to share.
I think users expect applications to have a webbased interface, such as hyperlinks. On
the Pocket PC, there are APIs that deal with HTML. On the Palm, the options seem a lot
more limited. I've previously asked and been referred to Plucker. I've had a look at it
and thought it would probably take longer to integrate the parts I need than to write my
own. Aaron Ardiris "GotHelp" sample seems to solve this rather elegantly. But
source for it isn't available.
What I've tried to do is to make my own simple hyperlink handling by using
gadgets and APIs. The functionality of this is limited, slow and sluggish (the
HTML text is written to the display using WinDrawChars). The text really needs
to be in a field to achieve something user friendly.
The strategic question from a developers position: Can developers expect
streamlined HTML rendering and handling capabilities from future Palm SDKs? It
think it's a strategic error not to have this fully implemented already. I
think the answer to this will be important for the choice of future platform
development.
If anyone has solved this and would be willing to share some of their
experience, practical advice would be greatly appreciated!
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