Quickies: Replacement Screens, PalmUser, C++, Scripting, and More

Posted By: As Listed Tuesday, August 7, 2001 7:01:47 AM

STNE Corporation now has replacement screens for broken Palm V/Vx/C3 screen. STNE can replace broken glass or a damaged LCD. The cost installed is $75 + Shipping. These are new screens not used ones. -Will Stillwell

PalmUser issue 9 is now out, with an in-depth appraisal of the Palm m500 and m505, their first roundup of Visor Springboard modules, and much more. -Steve Litchfield

MobileSoft Labs is offering a one-off special edition of the M.LABS mobileStudio C++ Palm application development tool at only $20 from August 9 through August 23. -MobileSoft Labs

There is a Yahoo discussion list for Palm Scripting. Specifically, it is to discuss using things like Perl, Python, and Lua on the Palm platform. -iCharles

Qvadis has picked NY Times bestseller Nellie Bly's The Kennedy Men as their Palm eBook-of-the-Month for August. -Qvadis

The next Indian Palm User Group meeting is Friday August 10 in Bangalore. -Ashish Gupta

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What is "Palm Scripting"?

mikecane @ 8/7/2001 8:38:59 AM #
What does Palm scripting mean? Does it automate tasks on the Palm itself or only on the desktop end of things? I wasn't aware that Palm programs had hooks built into them (or could easily have hooks added to them by other programs/utilities) to allow scripting/automation.

RE: What is
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/7/2001 8:57:47 AM #
As the article states, it reffers to mobile versions of programs like perl and php

RE: What is
mikecane @ 8/7/2001 9:33:23 AM #
If I knew what those were, do you think I would've asked the question to begin with?

RE: What is
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/7/2001 9:42:30 AM #
Perl is an interpreted language. Instead of compiling the code into an executable, the code is interpreted at runtime. I would assume then, that the script would be interpreted on the palm itself.

RE: What is
mikecane @ 8/7/2001 10:04:56 AM #
But what does it DO on the Palm?!

RE: What is
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/7/2001 10:37:42 AM #
You use these scripting languages to write small programs that run on the Palm. For instance, you could write a PLua script that automatically changes all expired ToDo items to Priority 1. Or you could write a program that presented the text equivalent of Cisco router error codes. Or, as I did, write a script that generates shareware registration codes based on an entered HotSync name, so I can assign registration codes to new users without having to be at my PC.

RE: What is
mikecane @ 8/7/2001 1:19:14 PM #
Ah! Now I see. Thanks.

I.M. Anonymous @ 8/7/2001 4:23:45 PM #
Anyone tried mobileStudio C++?
I went to check out but no trial available :(

Micheal

RE:
Coyote67 @ 8/7/2001 5:14:19 PM #
I'll tell you as soon as I get it, just bought it.


OH my god...becky, look at her....Prism.

Got MC++ trial version!
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/8/2001 12:07:54 AM #
Got the trial version before they removed it :)
They have released a stable product with great features similar to Visual C++.

Personally, I feel that there are still certain features missing like autocomplete but if you want to use C++ framework, sad to say MobileStudio is the only tool available.

Meanwhile, I have taken up their special offer already and started bugging them with my requests ;p

Mark J



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I.M. Anonymous @ 8/8/2001 9:36:17 AM #
is there ANY overhead to using this vs. codewarrior or the PRC-Tools stuff. I know there is no run time, but are the PRC's larger in any way. This is critical for the stuff that i'm doing right now.

Thanks.

Allan

RE:
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/9/2001 5:28:37 AM #
mobileStudio's C++ framework has a low overhead of about 7kb. As PRC-Tools is the core compiler, C++ results in about 17kb for a basic application.

Thus final size of a basic application is about 24kb. Subsequent size increase are relatively low.

You can download the samples from www.mobilesoft-labs.com Developer's Online to have a feel of the prc sizes.

Henry


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