April 2002
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
12h 37m
English
Content preview from Programming Visual Basic for the Palm OS
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Installing the CDK
The Conduit Development Kit (CDK) is freely
downloadable
from the Palm web site.[29] The CDK contains libraries and
runtime bindings for VB and COM, as well as the C/C++ language. The
InstallShield wizard puts everything into the
directory you select (see Figure 4-3).
Figure 4-3. CDK directory structure
You can choose to install only the COM libraries, samples, and documentation by using the custom installation procedure and deselecting the C/API. We recommend performing a full installation, because the C/API contains some additional documentation you will find useful.
The Com folder contains the VB tutorial
and
sample projects, an installation tool, and another directory that
simply contains links to the documents mentioned above. Most of the
sample projects in the CDK are primers that focus on explaining at
most one or two parts of the CDK. There is also a longer example,
SyncSamp, which replaces the default Memo
conduit and illustrates a complete conduit.
The Common folder contains the
CDK
programs and libraries used when developing conduits. This folder
also contains the documentation, in both Adobe PDF and Microsoft Help
formats. Earlier releases of the CDK runtime are supplied for
backward compatibility; these won’t help you,
because only the most recent release supports VB development.
If you have the Palm desktop software installed on your development ...
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