You are correct that glue has matured through the years, and MemGluePtrNew is a more recent addition (2002). But, PalmOSGlue has been around since before 2000.
But the question isn't about back then, it's about now. Glue's been a part of 68K developing on Palm for many years, and glue is the way much gets done. ARM development is certainly different, but that's not what we're talking about. The question is most likely not about ARM, but 68K development, so the documented glue libraries certainly apply and are quite useful. BTW, Palm is not new to me nor am I new to Palm. I started with Palm back in June of 1996 and spent 6 years with the company (then US Robotics, later bought by 3COM and finally spun off as Palm), and have been involved in some form or another since. On 6/21/07, Aaron Ardiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/21/07, Jeff Loucks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Beg to differ. > > Glue APIs have been a part of the Palm OS offering since at least OS > 3.5. They are neither unsupported nor undocumented. You'll find them > documented right along with the other APIs. Yes, they require you to > include a static library in your link, but there's nothing difficult > or unsupported about that. > > They aren't your standard trap based API, but they are still APIs. > They are routines that you call that wrap earlier APIs in a way that > makes them more useful, updated with new or extended features and > usually backward compatible. you are a newbie. :) some of us still remember programming the original palm os 1.0 with monochrome screens and a 32k dynamic heap. Glue was introduced because all of us had our own "glue" hacks. it was also common that Glue API's would be released too late, so we all still had to have our own versions. palmsource also only provided Glue libraries for 68K. my current palm applications are written in ARM natively, there is no MemGluePtrNew available for me in ARM - so in order to reproduce the API, its important to know how it is defined and what the basic concepts are behind it. #define memNewChunkFlagAllowLarge 0x1000 it was an internal use flag, you wont find it in any headers. we were using it is 2001+ http://news.palmos.com/read/messages?id=93048#93048 MemGluePtrNew was introduced very late http://www.mail-archive.com/palm-dev-forum@news.palmos.com/msg75924.html i have PalmOSGlue.h from Palm OS SDK 5.0 (111823) and MemGluePtrNew is not defined there. so now you know why we had to write our own.. i think it was added 5.x+ granted, all new developers.. they are being handed all our problems in a nice little package to make life easier for them :) -- // Aaron Ardiri -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
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