The CodeWarrior for Palm OS Platform, Version 8.1 Update has been posted on the Metrowerks website. You can download it from:
http://www.metrowerks.com/download. This update is a maintenance update of CodeWarrior for Palm OS Platform, Version 8.0. It addresses several issues reported by users in expanded mode support, the Palm OS wizards and the PalmDebugger plugin. In addition, it includes an improved online Palm OS Reference CHM help file and an updated PilRC plugin for the CodeWarrior IDE. A summary of the changes and fixes taken from the release notes is listed below: WIZARDS: The wizards have been updated. Below is a list of a few features that have been added to the Wizards. Refer to the 'Palm OS Wizards RelNotes.txt' text file in the \Release notes\Palm Notes folder for details of known issues and features. - All source code now uses C-style comments, rather than C++ double-slash comments. - The shared library wizard now turns on the PC-relative const data code generation by default. - The shared library wizard generates inline functions for OpenLibrary and CloseLibrary in the public header file. - The application wizard now includes a default edit field in the generate project. - Selecting the Symbol SDK in the application wizard inserts calls to set up the scanner library in AppStart and shut down the library in AppStop. - Selecting the HandEra SDK in the application wizard adds calls to go to 240x240 mode and adjust the forms for the higher resolution. - Selecting the Sony CLIE SDK in the application wizard adds calls to go into Hi-Res mode (320x320) using the Palm OS API compatibility layer. - Using the Palm OS glue library now causes you to include CharAttr.h in addition to PalmOSGlue.h, since parts of the TxtGlue.h header file rely on macros defined in CharAttr.h. RUNTIME LIBRARIES: The runtime library sources have been updated. All of the changes are related to expanded mode support. You MUST rebuild the "Palm OS Runtime.mcp" file in the CW for Palm OS Support/Runtime Libraries folder to have these changes reflected in the library .lib files. - The library fixes a bug that caused multi-segment expanded mode programs to crash when the application exited. - Expanded mode applications can now use expanded data during non-global launches. - Expanded mode applications responding to a subcall do not allocate a new expanded data segment. Instead, they use the segment already allocated by the original instantiation of the program. Please refer to the 'Runtime libraries' text file found in the \Release notes\Palm Notes folder for details of fixes and features. DEBUGGER: The debugger has been updated to build 33 in this drop. Please refer to the 'PalmDebugger Release Notes' text file for details of fixes and features - Fixed a problem clearing breakpoints on running code. - Fixed a problem where error messages would give unknown error messages instead of the predefined Palm error messages. - Several changes were made to handle error conditions when PRC's do not load properly. This most often is seen in problems doing many repeated build, load & debug cycles. OTHER SDKS: We now include a prebuilt version of MathLib.prc for downloading to your device if you are building a program that uses the MathLib shared library. DOCUMENTATION: We reorganized the Palm OS Reference HTML Help file to make it easier for you to access the individual reference items. Every major reference item is now linked into the table of contents and appears on its own page. PILRC COMPILER PLUGIN; The PilRC plugin and sources are updated to version 2.8p7c as published on November 7, 2001 on Neil Rhodes' website: http://www.calliopeinc.com/pilrcplugin.html -- jkl -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
