April 2002
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
12h 37m
English
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Installing AppForge
There are a few prerequisites for installing and using the AppForge compiler. Most importantly, AppForge will only work with Microsoft Visual Basic 6. Fortunately, it will work with just about any flavor of VB—Learning/Working Edition, Professional Edition, or Enterprise Edition.
AppForge requires that Visual Studio Service Pack 4 be applied prior to installation. The service pack is freely downloadable from the Microsoft Visual Studio web site; this is a large download of more than 50 megabytes. AppForge includes the service pack on some of its CD-ROM distributions.
Most Palm users have a version of the Palm Desktop software installed on their computers. From the developer’s perspective, the most important components of the Palm Desktop are the installation application and the HotSync manager, which install programs and databases on the Palm PDA. This is usually accomplished using the Palm cradle and a serial connection. The Palm Desktop is not required for development, although having it can simplify the compile-debug-test cycle. The latest version of the Palm Desktop software can be freely downloaded from the Palm web site: http://www.palm.com/software/desktop/.
If you don’t have a Palm PDA, don’t
worry—we cover
how
to use the Palm Operating System Emulator (POSE) to run your Palm programs later in this chapter. The Emulator is a Windows application that simulates the Palm PDA’s hardware and software down to the last detail—even including the Palm VII ...
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