Ben Combee wrote:
> "John Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:57693@palm-dev-forum...
>> As we've seen in another thread recently, this limitation, if it really
>> exists at all, is a limitation not of Palm OS, but merely of Constructor.
[...]
> Its a limitation of the Macintosh resource format used by the
> CodeWarrior toolchain -- a form in Mac resources has references to
> controls kept in separate resources.
Thank you for the explanation. Having never used Constructor+PalmRez in
earnest, I was unsure whether the separate ID ranges were merely a default
in the UI or really a hard limitation, and I didn't want to get flamed by
Vivek for making false accusations. :-)
> I agree that this is a bad limitation, although it is understandable
> given Palm's early bootstrapping of development using existing tools
> that target the Macintosh, and I don't think its too bad, considering
> that Mac people have put up with it for years and years.
Actually I don't think it's so very terrible -- there's certainly other
things about CW that annoy me more! :-) And you're quite right that
it's understandable.
My point was more about misinformation and faulty assumptions.
For CW-using Palm OS programmers who grew up on Macs, this may well be
second nature and they may be used to having to think and code a little
inefficiently to avoid the problem.
However, not all Palm OS programmers fall into that category. There are
many Palm OS programmers who are neither accustomed to this nor using
tools with this limitation. It does those programmers a disservice to
teach them faulty folklore or to make them work harder than they need to.
John "My name really is John Marshall, no scare quotes required"
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