Getting started? Heres what I did. For NewBees.

[Jeff Ayers]

I have been a 'C' programmer since 1990 and created a Warehouse Management
System (WMS) for my company using Telxon 960's. We realized that we needed a
delivery system incorporated into our software. On my own, I bought a Palm
IIIx through an auction house on the Internet and bought a hotsync cable
from 3COM. I refuse to spend $369 on a compiler like CodeWarrier. GCC is
perfect at $0 for any penny pincher like myself. However, it had one
problem. It doesn't come with an IDE tool.

I searched the net and found the shareware package PilotMAG at
http://www.pdacentral.com/pilotzone/dev_windows.html. This sucker really
works. I was so impressed that I bought it for $20. It has a GUI design tool
that interfaces with PilRC and a 'C' source editor that calls the GCC
compiler. In two weeks, I was able to develop a delivery system integrated
with my WMS.

In addition to the IDE, I bought the book "Palm Programming The Developer's
Guide" published by O'Reilly from Barnes and Noble bookstore. I didn't buy
this from the net because I like reading books in advance before purchase.

Sincerely,

Jeff Ayers
ayers...@worldnet.att.net

[Pieter]

Hey Jeff,

 

I did today the same.

After one week of trying to make a very simple appl (a lit bite more than 'Hello world') with GCC (and the makefiles), I have tried PilotMAG and indeed it works, it works very well. In two hours a very simple appl is build and working. So I also has bought it.

 

Pieter

Narayan Iyer heeft geschreven in bericht <376D2CBC...@vsnl.com>...

Hey Jeff,

Your mail has been very helpful. This morning I was wondering if I could get something cheap and easy for creating the  resource file, I'll try and pull it out from the website you mentioned.

By the way I've been doing warehouse management/supply chain programming all the 5 yrs of my programming career too. Its encouraging to hear that you could get an application running on the Palm in 2 weeks.

I've got GCC on my machine and an emulator, I need a PalmPilot too but in my country (the supposed Software superpower) doesn't have a distributor, now I need to buy it through few of my friends in the US.

Thanks and Regards,

Narayan Iyer
Bangalore
India