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Programming Visual Basic for the Palm OS
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Programming Visual Basic for the Palm OS

by Matt Holmes, Patrick Burton, Roger Knoell
April 2002
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
12h 37m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Palm Component Implementation

A Piedmont component is compiled as a shared library with the type set to zpco. Create an empty CodeWarrior project, called ParseServer in the ParseServer directory you created earlier (see Figure 9-1, earlier in this chapter). Change the project settings to correspond with those listed. We assume the default Piedmont SDK and Metrowerks compiler installations. These settings may vary based on your installation.

Target Settings panel
Target name

ParseServer

Linker

MacOS 68 Linker

Post Linker

PalmRez Post Linker

Output directory

{Project}PalmDebug

Access Paths Panel
User paths

{Project}

C:\Program Files\AppForge\SDK\lib\PalmOS\DragonBall\CWPALM70

{Project}..\common

System paths

{Compiler}Palm OS 3.5 Support

C:\Program Files\AppForge\SDK\include

C:\Program Files\AppForge\SDK\include\PalmOS

68K Target panel
Project type

PalmOS Application

Filename

ParseServer.tmp

C/C++ Language panel

Checked items (check additional options depending on your development needs)

Activate C++ Compiler

68K Processor panel
Floating Point

PalmOS

Checked items

4-Byte Ints

PC Relative Strings

PalmRez Post Linker panel
Mac Resource files

ParseServer.tmp

Output file

ParseServer.prc

Type

zpco

Creator

TAGS

Transliteration

Palm OS 3.1 and later

Add the same files to this project as you did for the Windows ParseServer project except for the IDX, MDX, DEF, INC, and IDL files. You will also need to add the appropriate Piedmont libraries. These libraries can be found in the lib\PalmOS\DragonBall\CWPALM70 ...

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