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From: "Nesse, Rustin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 12:04 PM
Subject: RE: iPaq
> >Wow, I had P166 machine for development 4 years ago :)
> >I hope you are not serously consider development environment
> >with online
> >help system that takes
> >500MB space hog nowdays :)
>
> Thank goodness for Linux. =)
:)
>
> >I do not see how it is different from the palm. You have to press
> >application launcher button and it CLOSES your application
> >(Annoying thing some times since most apps loose temporary data).
>
> Not if those apps actually utilize their own internal preferences database
> or whatnot to store information. Its usually easy to do...and it's a
> recommended practice with Palm apps.
But you have to DO that, and increase size of your application.
>
> >Microsoft just SWITCHES focus from your application. It took
> >me 5 minutes to figure out how to switch and how to really close
> >application. Compaq gives nice utility for IPaq to manage
> >applications any way. My thought that there is going to be tons of
> >application switchers/closers soon.
>
> Like there are for the Palm? All kinds of app launchers there...just
> check out PalmGear. They're actually kind of fun to do, especally when
> you're playing with UI elements.
I know.
>
> >
> >PS.
> >I forgot to mention really nice and lightweight Database engine.
> >I mean engine that actually operates with fields and records instead of
> >memory blocks.
> >
> Nope, more like tables. Palm's HAS records and fields. From a
programmer's
>
> perspective, you write your structure, add in the appropriate fields where
> needed, and you have a record. Then, you add the record into your
database.
> You search it with an API call. Not that hard to do, really...heck, I can
> add records into other application's databases in order to provide a
> highly seamless and simplified solution.
Now think about that situation:
You developed database application, later you decide to add the field(s) to
the database
What does that mean ? It means that you would have to implement the layer
that somehow
isolates you from low level record mechanism. It is already done in windows
OS.
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