September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
11h 23m
English
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Chapter 4. Development Tools
There are many different development tools that allow you to write Palm applications, ranging from 68K assemblers to sophisticated forms packages. There are several flavors of Basic and a growing number of Java virtual machines. Still, most applications, including the examples in this book, are written in C or C++.
There are two C/C++ development environments: Metrowerks CodeWarrior and the Free Software Foundation’s PRC tools. CodeWarrior is available for Mac OS and Windows; the PRC tools are supported on Windows and Linux. Both toolsets include resource compilers and source-level debuggers. The Palm OS Emulator is a crucial tool in the development of Palm OS applications in general, and Palm OS network applications in particular. Mochasoft’s MochaPPP is useful for testing Palm OS network applications, though not the ones in this book, ironically. This chapter discusses these tools in depth.
Development Tools
The tools for developing network applications are the same as for developing standalone applications. This book assumes that the developer is familiar with the basics of developing Palm OS applications with either the CodeWarrior or PRC tools, and debugging these applications with the Palm OS Emulator. If not, Neil Rhodes and Julie McKeehan’s excellent book, Palm Programming: The Developer’s Guide (O’Reilly & Associates), provides a superior introduction to these and other Palm OS development issues.
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