Falch'net DeveloperStudio 2'6 for Palm OS

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Falch.net DeveloperStudio 2.6 for Palm OS
Presented by Mark Wilhelm
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Overview

• What is DeveloperStudio
• Project creation
• Visual Resource Designer
• Project manager
• IDE basics
• Import of Code Warrior projects
• Debugging
• Database Projects
• Misc.

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What is DeveloperStudio

• Its an IDE.
• It uses gcc
• It uses PilRC
• It uses gdb
• It uses POSE
• It generates source code with Wizards

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Project creation

• C project
• C project
• Different frameworks
• Hacking the templates for doc headers code
  standards
• Hacking the database templates

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Visual Resource Designer

• Fully integrated with the PilRC resource compiler
  
• Visual editing
• Textual/source editing

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Project manager

• More than one configuration per project
• More than one project at a time
• Add files of all types
• Created project file is an XML text file

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IDE basics

• Color coded syntax
• Intellisense popups
• F1 help on all Palm OS API keywords
• Preferences
• Tab spaces issue
• Code Templates
• Jump to function definitions
• Compiling (F7, Alt F7)
• Running (F5, Ctrl F5)

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Debugging

• Single-step into and over functions and
  statements
• View stacks, disassembled code, registers,
  memory, local variables and code
• Single-step into and over functions and
  statements
• Set breakpoints/conditional breakpoints directly
  in the text-editor

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Import of Code Warrior projects

• Create a blank project
• Import a .rsrc file

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Database Projects

• Basics
• Renaming of items - issue.
• Steps and tutorial issues

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Misc.

• Directory structure
• Installation
• Preferences
• Allow multiple instances
• Do not break in PilotMain
• SnapIns
• Help