Recently there was a post about a program Pilot Install which installed files to the Palm without using HotSync and had a really great speed. Is there any documentation on how this sort of thing is done? I've now seen it done in the RealOne player and Card Export in addition to Pilot Install, with the difference being that Pilot Install didn't require the use of a client/server setup with an application running on the Palm.
Are these programs using the Exchange Manager? Using a dependency viewer on Pilot Install seems to indicate it doesn't actually use any Palm libraries at all, but it could of course be loading them on the fly and not showing up as dependencies, or perhaps be statically linked? It's hard to be sure, I suppose. I've done some reading on the Exchange Manager, and it seems to be similar to what I need done, but I'm not sure whether this will help me on the speed issue or not. Mainly, I want to get a decent speed out of transferring a large number of JPEG files to an SD card, and as per an email from Ben Combee a while ago, issues with the HotSync protocol simply won't allow this to be fast using a traditional HotSync. From looking at previous posts in the forum about this, it seems like Exchange Manager will transfer the files for me without HotSync, but does anybody know if this will run into the previously mentioned slowness associated with a HotSync transfer? Any advice would be appreciated, Adrien. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
