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Palm OS Programming For Dummies (Paperback)

by Liz O'Hara (Author), John Schettino (Author)
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  • Paperback: 408 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Pap/Cdr edition (20 Jul 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0764505637
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764505638
  • Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 19 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,394,658 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This reference aids writing applications for the Palm platform. Topics included are Windows and Mac OS integration features of CodeWarrior, User Interface tools, testing aids, troubleshooting techniques and sample code. The text also examines other third-party tools and their uses.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Seems OK so far, 2 Sep 1999
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I am just coming up to speed on Palm development, and so I have grabbed everything I could see that seemed worthwhile. So far this book seems more helpful on the basics than the O'Reilly book. But it has some drawbacks.

For one (grit your teeth) it contains technical errors. The authors fail to note that a Palm app must have TWO icons, not one, and they blithely refer to "starting up a background recalculation for your spreadsheet" when such a thing is not possible on a Palm (as I understand it, all apps are single-threaded. That's one reason spreadsheets are not a good Palm idea.)

Most serious Palm apps involve the Palm app on the Palm, a desktop app (written in ??), and a go-between DLL called a Conduit which is invoked by the Palm Desktop HotSync program. This book ONLY covers Conduit development in Java. The O'Reilly books covers Conduit development in C++. This book is an inexpensive and helpful companion if you can ignore the frequent and ghastly attempts at humor. :-)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Reasonable content, confused presentation, 6 Nov 2000
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This book has reasonable descriptions of how to start programming the Palm, but the delivery of the inforamtion is terrible. Information about any given subject is littered about the book. They do not seem able to deal with any one subject in a single place.

The 'amusing' section titles, detract from the readability of the book, and from its use as a reference.

On a final note, once you have your first app. up and running the next thing you need is a reference to the standard Palm libraries. Do they include one? No. We will have to wait for 'Palm Programming in a Nutshell' for that.

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