'Bryan Daniel Batchelder' wrote:
> Hi everyone--
>
> I am just getting into programming PalmOS applications. I am
> using the handspring visor as my testbed currently. I am wondering what
> the concensus is on:
>
> 1. Any gotchas there are for using the visor...like for instance,
> I have yet to be able to get the online debugging to work from within
> codewarrior (I am guessing that the visor cradle interface differs from
> true PalmPilots?)
You can debug on Visor with a serial cradle. USB debugging a la "shortcut ..
2" is not yet released by Metrowerks.
>
> 2. What the best IDE/Tools are? CodeWarrior seems nice, but
> maybe a little overboard. GNUTools I have yet to fully figure out yet,
> but I am used to Makefiles and such so thats no biggie since I am from a
> linux background.
There is a very good IDE for linux just posted a while back.
>
> 3. How do you get the blasted ROM off a visor? I have tried to
> use the POSE tools, and even the modified one that comes with Handspring's
> release of POSE. Yet everytime I tell the ROM Transfer to begin I either
> get an error right away or it does a waiting...sending 0%...error #773
> message after a few seconds.
You can't right now. The ROM transfer tools don't work with Visor.
>
> 4. I guess anything else that you guys would have liked to been
> pointed to when you were all newbies at this.
>
Have fun!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --Bryan
