Hi People, as a digest receiver, it obviously is difficult to tune into the hot discussion. Anyways, I can quite agree to a few of the arguments-although I believe that developing at least smaller applications for the Palm Os is quite comfortable.
My main points of critique are in no particular order: a)PalmOne's pluggedin program Face it, people. It is almost impossible to find ANYTHING useful here fast. But if you think about PalmOne's quality control and the ongoing trail of NVFS issues(nothing against PalmOne employees, I know that most of you are a hard-working bunch) b)PODS autocompletition I used Visual Basic 6(!!!) on a 400 MhZ machine. The Autocompletition feature worked faster and more reliable than in PODS on my 1.8GhZ machine. c)PODS resource editor Lacks some properties that even Quartus RsrcEdit supports(!!!!) d)PODS SDK support Um, failure to look up symbol,... . How the damn should I compile my programs with all warnings set to on e)Palm OS simulator Tends to crash at start-up a lot of times on my Windows 2000 Machine f)PODS C support Define variables in the middle of a 68k block..boing,... g)PODs documentation I didn't find any info in PODS on how to do multisegmenting with managed make,... . The OS documentation itself is good(although it ignores much, for example that cache in the DIA manager I never found), but PODS would do well with a few more how-to style tutorials IMHO! Anyways, I am pretty satisfied with my developing experience and would rate it with 75/100%. However, I have not yet used Multisegmenting and thus can't really comment on that. Please don't take this email as an all-is-ass mail. Just take it as some positive feedback... Best regards Tam Hanna Tamoggemon Software http://www.tamoggemon.com http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
