Will
July 6th, 2004, 12:31
I just ordered (and received...woohoo!) a Symbol SPT1800 (palm os device w/ barcode scanner). The problem is that it didn't come with any software. Symbol does offer an sdk though....pretty much just a couple of libs and headers and a few examples of using the libs.
The problem with that is that I'm not all that into warez and I'm not going to spend $400 on the metrowerks codewarrior software. The only palm development that I've done is with pila, but that doesn't offer any way (that I've found) of linking an external library. There is a new version of pila out as well that looks nice but it doesn't have that capability either.
The good news is that I've managed to disassemble the one lib that I need and have ripped a couple of functions out of it and transported them to my pila source. The ripped functions work great except for the ones that reference global variables. I don't know how to debug symbol-specific palm apps. I can't seem to find any roms for pose. Is there a way to debug the apps while they're running on the symbol with it in the cradle?
(The global --looks like just one so far-- looks like an initialized variable. I can't find anywhere where it gets a return value or any other data moved into it. The only way that I can think of to see what's going on at runtime is to debug it. I guess I could patch the app to display the contents of that variable but in the end I'll need a way to debug the symbol apps anyways.)
thanks,
will
The problem with that is that I'm not all that into warez and I'm not going to spend $400 on the metrowerks codewarrior software. The only palm development that I've done is with pila, but that doesn't offer any way (that I've found) of linking an external library. There is a new version of pila out as well that looks nice but it doesn't have that capability either.
The good news is that I've managed to disassemble the one lib that I need and have ripped a couple of functions out of it and transported them to my pila source. The ripped functions work great except for the ones that reference global variables. I don't know how to debug symbol-specific palm apps. I can't seem to find any roms for pose. Is there a way to debug the apps while they're running on the symbol with it in the cradle?
(The global --looks like just one so far-- looks like an initialized variable. I can't find anywhere where it gets a return value or any other data moved into it. The only way that I can think of to see what's going on at runtime is to debug it. I guess I could patch the app to display the contents of that variable but in the end I'll need a way to debug the symbol apps anyways.)
thanks,
will