Tony, One more thing: Appforge DOES NOT WORK ON PALM OS 5 and may not ever be released for OS5.
NSBasic DOES work on Palm OS 5. I like the AppForge better, especially the one source does it all. NSBasic does not have that option. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary Gorsline Easy Business Software ========================== End of Message ========================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Goggin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 5:49 PM Subject: RE: Does AppForge Support This... ? Att: Tony > Hi Oscar, > > > hi Tony, > > i have evaluated AppForge and i found it a nice ans easy tool for > > developing. > > After your mail i checked NSBasic's site, and found it > > 'basic' compared with > > Appforge, and its associated docs and utilitaries. > > Since i have not yet decided what tool to buy, i would appreciate your > > comments of why are you migrating from AppForge to NSBasic. Is because > > appforge support, features, price? > > Actually we decided to port from AppForge to C++ - I simply wish our > "experiment" with VB had been with NSBasic and not AppForge, in hindsight, > for the following reasons: > > 1) We were forced to port our application from PalmOS to Pocket PC (due to > Symbol discontinuing the 2D PalmOS platform), and didn't appreciate the > $25/unit license fee for the required Booster executable on the Symbol 2800 > platform. > 2) NSBasic has a smaller runtime requirement (<100K) as opposed to AppForge > (about 500K.) > 3) AppForge on PalmOS was pretty slow. NSBasic claims to be faster, though > I have not tested it. > > AppForge does have a few advantages - we had identically the same code > running on Pocket PC as we had on PalmOS. The single-source option was > nice - I don't believe NSBasic can do the same. All we had to do was modify > the fonts and form sizes at runtime, and AppForge even provided sample code > to do it. Additionally, both PalmOS and Pocket PC code produced identical > PDB files, which simplified our conduit development. The AppForge tech > support team was very responsive to some unique needs and even did some > custom programming for us. All in all, I give AppForge an "A" for support, > "A" for ease of development, "B" for cross-platform compatibility, "C" for > speed/optimization, and failed them on the unit cost. > > In the end, the $25/unit license fee killed our AppForge plans. The > other programmer that I'm working with is quickly coming up to speed in C++. > We're currently just going to deal with having two sets of source code for > two different platforms - at least both are written in C++ so we can share > some source between them. > > HTH! > > - Tony > > ======================================= > Tony Goggin, Technical Director > Salamander Technologies > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.salamandertechnologies.com > ======================================= > > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
