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Summary: Excellent coverage of Web Clippings
Review: Best book I've found with respect to Web clippings, security, and interacting with Perl/ASP.
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Summary: Supports GCC!
Review: Finally, a book that gives working versions of code for both the GCC and the Metrowerks environments. I've been battling converting Metrowerk projects into MAKE solutions. Getting the code for both was great. I am now using the trick the book presents in the database chapter to copyprotect my Palm shareware (the trick is to orphan a database). It's easy and effective.
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Summary: Covers IR and Networks
Review: Finally...I can steal code that lets me talk to another Palm using IR and access my PC. This book made it way too easy.
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Summary: Graphics and Animation!
Review: Folks say you can't program graphics on a handheld. Nonsense! Jamsa must agree -- he extends the Palm OS graphics library to support 3D graphics. Also discusses animations (actually object translation and scaling).
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Summary: Discussion on IR Communications was just I Needed
Review: I had less than a week to finish an application that used infrared (IR) to exchange data between palms. I was able to cut and paste code from the book's CD to finish my application in a few hours. The code works, the discussion is easy to follow!
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Summary: Finally -- A Book that Gives You More than the Documentation
Review: I have 4,000 pages of Palm OS documentation. I need solutions -- many of which I found in this book's hundreds of programs. I used the Network Library code to build a chat program for my Palm -- pretty cool.
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Summary: Discussion of Preferences very helpful
Review: I needed to create a user interface that offered data persistence -- any time the user started the application, they need to continue right where they left off. Chapter 13's discussion on saving and retrieving preferences was alone worth the price of the book.
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Summary: AVOID PURCHASING THIS BOOK
Review: I purchased this book primaraly on the merits of the customer reviews here. After having used this book to develop a Palm application using GCC PRC Tools, I'm stumped as to how it got such good reviews. The example code (in the text and on the CD) contains errors (read: the code won't compile.) Also, the examples are incomplete. For instance, the author talks about reading from a TextField but not how to write to one (not a trivial procedure.) Popup triggers are left out altogether. In general, the author doesn't thouroughly cover the topics he's chosen to write about. Nor does he give you any clue that he's not fully discussing the topic at hand. For example, he mentions only a couple of the built in dialog boxes and doesn't bother to tell you that there are other's available in PalmOS - let alone list them. The worst problem is that some of the examples are good enough to compile and execute on a non-debug device ROM, but will crash the debug ROM or produce erratic behavior in the program (ie: his discussion of PrefGetAppPreferences()) Over and over I'm having to debug errors that have been introduced because I used the author's buggy code. Do yourself a favor, buy a different book on writing PalmOS applications!
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Summary: AVOID PURCHASING THIS BOOK
Review: I purchased this book primaraly on the merits of the customer reviews here. After having used this book to develop a Palm application using GCC PRC Tools, I'm stumped as to how it got such good reviews. The example code (in the text and on the CD) contains errors (read: the code won't compile.) Also, the examples are incomplete. For instance, the author talks about reading from a TextField but not how to write to one (not a trivial procedure.) Popup triggers are left out altogether. In general, the author doesn't thouroughly cover the topics he's chosen to write about. Nor does he give you any clue that he's not fully discussing the topic at hand. For example, he mentions only a couple of the built in dialog boxes and doesn't bother to tell you that there are other's available in PalmOS - let alone list them. The worst problem is that some of the examples are good enough to compile and execute on a non-debug device ROM, but will crash the debug ROM or produce erratic behavior in the program (ie: his discussion of PrefGetAppPreferences()) Over and over I'm having to debug errors that have been introduced because I used the author's buggy code. Do yourself a favor, buy a different book on writing PalmOS applications!
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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: I read the previous reviews and thought, "finally some working examples". I got the book and it's a collection of code snippets!?
I was particulary looking for datbase and table design. All I got was creating, opening and searching a database. I already knew how to do that. There is no mention of tables, their use and design and no indepth look at data input and manipulation. This is very much a beginners book to get there feet wet in coding for the Palm but any other type of programmer making the move to the Palm enviornment will need to look elswhere.
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