L. Victor Marks and Ralph Case IBM June 2001 If you re using WebSphere Transcoding Publisher you re probably aware of an additional feature to the product -- the Palm Transcoder plugin. This free dW-exclusive tutorial will show you how to install and use this plugin for bringing Web pages to your Palm devices. Register for this tutorial After you...

By Alex Gusev Go to page 1 2 Next Why You Need It Once you ve decided to develop an amazing new game for the Palm OS you need to discover how to implement your brilliant idea. In simple cases you propably can end up on the standard Form Manager API. In more interesting cases Form Manager does not provide sufficient functionality. You then can develop...

By Alex Gusev Go to page 1 2 Next Alarm and Attention Managers Even though Palm OS is not mainly a multitasking system you definitely experienced the situations when for example reminders pop up to inform you about meetings or an SMS message was just received and so forth. Palm OS provides several managers that may be used together to get full...

By Alex Gusev Part I Surfing through databases One of the amazing capabilities of the Palm OS is its embedded database support. The DB Manager API allows fulfilling different operations to be done easily and effectively. Unlike Windows CE where basic DB operations may totally confuse an unexperienced programmer here you need to know just the database s...

By Alex Gusev Go to page 1 2 Next In the previous article we have discussed how to enumerate databases installed on Palm device and retrieve their parameters. The next step is to investigate them closer. We will see how to handle data records stored in database and related stuff. Managing Records The first thing you need to do is to open the desired...

By Alex Gusev Go to page 1 2 Next Introduction When I first started to play around with Palm OS programming I was surprised that floating point support is highly restricted supporting only basic math. Even though I understood that due to obvious system restrictions a reasonable part of the standard C library was not implemented as either a part...

By Robert Chartier Rating 4.7 out of 5 Rate this article email this article to a colleague suggest an article Introduction This article will show how to establish a connection with the Palm synchronization process in order to upload the Palm Blog application data to various upload destinations. If you recall in the first part I indicated that we...

By Robert Chartier Rating 4.3 out of 5 Rate this article email this article to a colleague suggest an article Introduction The first part of this three part series walks through the process of creating the actual Palm application. The focus will be on the actual functionality of the application its UI and navigation. Learn how to create menu systems...

By Clayton E. Crooks II Satellite Forms from PumaTech is a commercial Database Forms Designer with enough functionality to be an absolute replacement to C development particularly for database types of applications. In fact the database tools are so good that they are often mentioned in reviews for Palm database programs like JFile. Make no mistakes...

By Alex Gusev Go to page 1 2 Next No doubts almost each developer has faced the problem of impossibility to put as many controls on the screen as he might need to due to screen size limit or some other reasons. Fortunately the situaltion may be significantly improved because each Palm device has five hardware buttons four ones are used to shortly...

By Alex Gusev There is no doubt that each application working with a database needs to sort records or search them. With SQL-enabled databases you just execute the appropriate SQL query to get the desired functionality. Native Palm OS databases don t support SQL at all. Instead the Palm OS uses a data model similar to flat files with the ability to...

By Alex Gusev Go to page 1 2 3 Next We have already covered Serial Manager and Net Library briefly in earlier articles. One more important communication player left untouched is the Infrared Library IR Library . Actually you might use IR either with Exchange Manager or Serial Manager IrCOMM . IR Library gives you low-level access to the IR capabilities...

By Robert Chartier Rating 5 out of 5 Rate this article email this article to a colleague suggest an article Introduction If you have ever developed an application that is intended to be shipped and distributed to an end user machine you know how important it is to create an installer that takes care of all the details required to have that software...

By Alex Gusev Go to page 1 2 Next A PDA itself is nice toy maybe even useful for some common tasks such as ToDo or MemoPad applications but without an option to communicate the to outer world it s just peace of metal. In this set of articles we will try to cover the main available communication types that you can use in your own applications. Serial...

By Alex Gusev Go to page 1 2 Next Expansion Manager to confirm its name is a layer that manages slot drivers. Actually it doesn t work with slots directly. Instead Expansion Manager provides unified APIs to manupilates slots. All specific magic is performed by appropriate slot driver implemented as a shared library. Such architecture is similar...