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Palm Programming: The Developer's Guide

by Neil Rhodes and Julie McKeehan (O'Reilly & Associates, December 1998)

ISBN: 1-56592-525-4

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This site includes:

A full description of the book
Information about the authors
Table of Contents
Sample Chapters
Online Conference
Errata
Reader reviews

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Book Updates and Corrections

There have been five printings of the book, each with some corrections. We're hard at work on a 2nd edition of the book right now.

Jan. 1, 1999

The Satellite Forms sample Sales application on the CD won't load with the demo version of Satellite Forms App Designer because of a limitation in the number of rows per table in the demo version.

Download a new version of the Satellite Forms sales application

Nov. 1, 2000

The Windows/Mac projects don't work for CodeWarrior for Palm OS R6. In order to support that version of CodeWarrior, you need to update the "Access Paths" (in Target settings) from "Palm OS 3.0 Support" to "Palm OS 3.1 Support" has a "Palm OS 3.1 Support" folder.

The Sales sample fails on a 3.5 Debugging ROM because our SetFieldTextFromHandle routine draws the field before the form itself has been drawn (a no-no). The fix is to add an additional (Boolean) parameter to SetFieldTextFromHandle (and SetFieldTextFromPtr and ClearFieldText) specifying whether or not to redraw.

The Palm 3.1 headers require defining NON_INTERNATIONAL in order to use IsDigit.

Download CW R6 projects (Mac/Windows).

Nov. 2, 2000

We've updated (finally!) the Sales conduit that uses the Generic Conduits. Note that Generic Conduits are now supported by Palm, and use inheritance (rather than copy/paste).

Download the Sales Generic Conduit.

This requires the 4.0 version of the Conduit Development Kit.

Note that there are now newer versions of the GCC Tools (now called PRC-Tools). You should use those rather than the much-older versions on the CD-ROM on the book.

Nov. 15, 2000

We've got updated versions of the GCC code samples from the book setup to work with the newer PRC-Tools.

If you find any errors in the book, please contact us so that we can keep a full list of errors. Thanks.

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Jan. 1, 1999	The Satellite Forms sample Sales application on the CD won't load with the demo version of Satellite Forms App Designer because of a limitation in the number of rows per table in the demo version. Download a new version of the Satellite Forms sales application
Nov. 1, 2000	The Windows/Mac projects don't work for CodeWarrior for Palm OS R6. In order to support that version of CodeWarrior, you need to update the "Access Paths" (in Target settings) from "Palm OS 3.0 Support" to "Palm OS 3.1 Support" has a "Palm OS 3.1 Support" folder. The Sales sample fails on a 3.5 Debugging ROM because our SetFieldTextFromHandle routine draws the field before the form itself has been drawn (a no-no). The fix is to add an additional (Boolean) parameter to SetFieldTextFromHandle (and SetFieldTextFromPtr and ClearFieldText) specifying whether or not to redraw. The Palm 3.1 headers require defining NON_INTERNATIONAL in order to use IsDigit. Download CW R6 projects (Mac/Windows).
Nov. 2, 2000	We've updated (finally!) the Sales conduit that uses the Generic Conduits. Note that Generic Conduits are now supported by Palm, and use inheritance (rather than copy/paste). Download the Sales Generic Conduit. This requires the 4.0 version of the Conduit Development Kit. Note that there are now newer versions of the GCC Tools (now called PRC-Tools). You should use those rather than the much-older versions on the CD-ROM on the book.
Nov. 15, 2000	We've got updated versions of the GCC code samples from the book setup to work with the newer PRC-Tools.