Del Ventruella wrote:
Rest assured that I am always grateful for the helpful suggestions that I
get here. I am quite new to C or C++ for more than engineering computations
and matrix manipulation, and am simply trying to approach PalmOS programming
from a perspective that is realistic for me.
Hi Del. I hope you didn't think that I was critisizing you in my note.
I was just thinking that what you needed most was someone to reassure
you that you DID have the tools necessary to get the job done. Often
when someone tries something for the first time they encounter some
road-blocks and it doesn't work out. Knowing that the tools are
appropriate will prompt them to try harder, clean up some code, try to
make sense of the previously-foreign concepts. If they KNOW that the
tools will work, then it is often just a matter of persistence until the
get a working solution. BUT, there is sometimes the question "Is it
even POSSIBLE with the tools that I'm using? What if the tools that I'm
using will NEVER produce a workable solution, because they are
fundamentally wrong". Given that last worry, it is very instructive for
someone to lean over your shoulder and say "Don't worry, you are on the
right track, you'll get there".
I would have liked to think that there was a "hello world" type sample
conduit included with the COM documentation, which could be readily
compiled without requiring specific build environments. That's the way
that I learn.... start with a very basic functioning example, then build
it up to do what I want.
Like I said before, I haven't looked into conduits myself, so I can't
offer much help. But I'm interested in the subject, so I'm following
your progress.
Bob
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