Robert, Thanks a million for the detailed reply! Do the Borland or Code Warrior tools allow stepping through the code in debug mode? (I'm assuming GCC does not.) This is the first time I've heard the Borland C++ builder recommened for this building Palm apps. As I've heard great things about C++ Builder, I'd love to be able to leverage its debugging cababilities; should I assume that you're using it to build x86 code and then using a make util to build the 68k version? Or is it able to target multiple systems?
Thanks again for the info! Regards, Tim Also --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.com/
