From: "Mike Hodkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Need to walk before running. I need to brush up on C/C++ > before diving into Palm. > The Palm stationery produces apps that will run (from memory a simple form with and edit field and an About form). You can use this as a platform to practice C skills just by writing background modules that calculate or manipulate strings and then copy the results to one of the pre-built forms. I had a student that wrote code to calculate student debt repayments and produced the output by using the window write routines to dump text to the current form. You don't have to know anything about the Palm OS memory management, form, controls, events or database functions to do this, but can gradually expand your tests to include those.
The problem I've found with students working on C skills outside of Palm OS is that it's difficult to ignore the environment issues, particularly when the Palm libraries don't use the standard C naming for core functions (what-ever misguided Pascal-oriented idiot decided to rename standard C functions deserves a good kicking but it's with us for good now). Although you will run into annoying walls with Palm OS issues this group should be able to fix those for you fairly quickly. At least with that approach you get your head into the right space in terms of the design, code, debug cycle. Chris Tutty -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
