April 2002
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
12h 37m
English
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Chapter 1. Introducing AppForge
Over the past five years, the Palm PDA has zoomed to prominence as the handheld device of choice for the consumer and the enterprise. In that time, the Visual Basic developer has been relegated to the sidelines—the Palm doesn’t run the Microsoft Windows operating system, and its processor isn’t based on a design from Intel. The available development tools mostly favored the C/C++ developer, or they required an individual or corporate investment in a proprietary scripting language.
All that changed when AppForge introduced its flagship product, a VB compiler for the Palm. AppForge calls its product a “family of visual software tools that enables virtually anyone to write engaging GUI software for non-PC computer devices.” (In this chapter and throughout this book, when we mention AppForge, we mean the add-in for VB for Palm OS.)
AppForge is an add-in for Microsoft’s Visual Basic. With AppForge, developers build applications that execute on the Palm PDA from within the native VB integrated development environment (IDE). Instead of compiling code into a Windows executable, AppForge generates a Palm Resource (PRC) file—roughly speaking, a program file.
From a practical perspective, this means that it is very easy to come up to speed with the AppForge tool. Developers can focus right away on forms and controls, events and procedures, without learning a new development environment.
In this chapter, we take a quick look at what it means to develop software ...
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