Re: Palm Pilot and Cocoa...
Re: Palm Pilot and Cocoa...
- Subject: Re: Palm Pilot and Cocoa...
- From: Chris Ridd <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 12:03:54 +0100
Alex Rice <email@hidden> wrote:
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You can download a Palm Conduit SDK from
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http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/cdk/mac/. They only support Codewarrior.
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However, the shared libraries for the conduit manager and the sync
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manager are CFM shared libs. So you are going to have to use CFBundle to
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open and get function pointers back from the libs.
Palm documents the C interface for those shared libs, so it should be
possible to write a conduit using gcc and Mach-O and CFBundle.
The Codewarrior-specific part of the CDK (apart from Palm only shipping CFM
libraries :-) is due to Palm including C++ classes which extend some
proprietary Metrowerks classes (PowerPlant.)
It is a shame Palm couldn't ship their Java CDK for OS X.
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There are actually 1 or 2 Palm.com Mac engineers lurking on this list, I
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think. ;-)
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marketcircle.com was developing a Palm conduit for their Cocoa app, and I
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don't know how far they got yet. A Palm conduit is pretty low priority
Looks like they aren't there yet.
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for me, but I would be glad to share ideas and code samples with you.
I haven't got as far as any code yet, but I'm still interested in this. The
CFBundle stuff looks hard :-(
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BTW, I think the Unix Palm tools are GNU, not Lesser/Library GNU license.
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So that might hurt you if you are thinking about commercial applications.
The Unix Palm tools probably won't be any use, because they almost
certainly use a different API to the one that Palm provides on OS X.
The other possibility is to wait for Apple's iSync though I don't know much
about that apart from what I've read on the rumour sites :-)
Cheers,
Chris
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