Palm OS Programming Tutorials
TamsPalm alerted me that there are some excellent Palm OS programming tutorials available from Eric Poncet. He has posted a series of programming guides and example tutorials in Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels with sample apps and source code. There is also a good overview of the programming tools and utilities that are out there for Palm development.
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RE: Programming in C? Gimme a break!
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RE: Programming in C? Gimme a break!
Second, PalmOS native language is C, for which all libraries, SDK, documentation are written.
RE: Programming in C? Gimme a break!
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RE: Programming in C? Gimme a break!
Next C compiles down into very nice, small, and efficient code. Where a BASIC program could be a megabyte or two a C program would probably only take a few hundred kilobytes at the most.
Third you can do almost anything in C. With something like Visual Basic you are restricted to features the language offers. You can use it to create your own custom drivers for a piece of hardware or write your own low level API.
Yes it is slightly more difficult to learn then something like Visual Basic but in the end you have a much more powerful tool to write software. You can do almost anything with C, heck most operating systems are written in regular C.
So there you have a few reasons that people still use C. Personally I would always opt for something like C over something like Visual Basic because I like having good efficient code as opposed to easy code.
RE: Programming in C? Gimme a break!
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It should also be noted that the HB++ folks have an excellent forum where you'll get more than your money's worth in free tech support by fellow users as well as HB++ staff.
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RE: Programming in C? Gimme a break!
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how can i acquire data from a palm pda ?? ive to write code for data transmission between palm pda and PC...can anyone suggest a technology to do it ???
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Programming in C? Gimme a break!
Download the free trial of Handheld Basic (HB++) and make something amazing in hours. It's easy (just like VB) and it compiles fast & small.
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