> Is there any way to simply detect a click on a word to > allow copying to the clipboard? This to allow a > paste/find against dictionaries?
Copy to clipboard has been requested a few times by others in the past also. As Adam described well, it is difficult on the device since they are just raw pixel data on the screen, not selectable text anymore. It is a non- trival thing to solve though. If it does get solved, one of the features that can go with it is that when add a bookmark, the top line of viewer's visible text is automatically copied and pasted into the add bookmark's edit box as the default new name, as that is usually the name of the bookmark. > What tools would I need if I were to do this myself? > (e.g. Direct connect to dictionary/memopad.) Besides the cygwin and prc-tools you may need some extra things for the viewer, to parse the install scripts, etc. I still have my cygwin b20 from way back, but as Dennis rightly mentioned, there has been a lot of development since then, and these extra tools may have since been included. > Care to venture an estimate on how long it would take > a n above average C/C++ developer to get his arms > around Palm development on an NT box? Coming in cold, I would say about a half-day to read up on the cygwin docs, test stuff, set up the cygwin environment in the manner you like, get familiar with the way the viewer is laid out, and start modifying. Palm has 2 large PDFs for their API: an intro and a massive function description reference. There is (was?) a free O'Reilly book on Palm programming, and Metrowerks used to have a free tutorial for memopad on their website that showed memopad being built from the template to finished product in about 25 steps. Most of the Palm API is very straightforward coming from programming in other GUI environments (pointers to a form, showing a form, etc); about the only thing that is odd is the database reading/writing. > ps. If you could give a shout when the NT4/Plucker > desktop issue is resolved it would be greatly > appreciated! Thx again for the great tools! Alot of kind folks have sent back the debug log files, and I think it was caught today. It was just in the generation of the filename of the XML-resource file to load up the XML resources: since it wasn't the correct filename, no XML loaded, no GUI controls built, so crashed when try to manipulate the controls that didn't exist. If you have a C++ compiler, you can compile the Plucker Desktop also, and play with that too if you like. Just like getting the PalmOS headers, you will just need the wxWindows headers from www.wxwindows.org You can use cygwin(b20 isn't good enough here though, need a recent one), but you may wish a compiler that supports pre-compiled headers (such as the free Borland C++ compiler 5.5 with SP1) as the compile time increase will be giant (seemed to me to be about 20 fold). Best wishes, Robert
