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Garnet OS (also known as Palm OS) is a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs).

Garnet OS (also known as Palm OS) is a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs).

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How can I segment my Palm OS 68K application?

If you have an 68K application written using CodeWarrior for Palm OS, how do you assign individual functions to different segments without manually moving files around in the segment tab in the IDE?
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"Background" task in palm OS

I'm trying to create a Palm OS app to check a web site every X minutes or hours, and provide a notification when a piece of data is available. I know that this kind of thing can be done on the new Palm's - for example, my Centro can have email or…
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How do I detect "Easter Egg" mode in my Palm OS application?

Since the early days, Palm OS has had a special "easter egg" mode that's enabled by making the right gesture in one of the Preference panels. On current Palm Treo and Centro devices, this is turned on by doing a clockwise swirl above the "Tips"…
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Palm OS 5.4 (Garnet) IR programming (Use CIR on IrDa port)

I would like to create an open source alternative to Palm OS programs like Noviiremote and Omniremote. I need to access the IR port of my Tungsten E2 and use it to transmit remote control type signals (I assume NEC and/or RC-5). Are there any…
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Can you link 68K code compiled with CodeWarrior for Palm OS with code compiled with PRC-Tools (GCC)?

I've got a Palm OS/Garnet 68K application that uses a third-party static library built with CodeWarrior. Can I rebuilt the application using PRC-Tools, the port of GCC for the Palm OS platform and still link with the third-party library?
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Create a calendar event on Palm OS

I've been googling for a while now, and can't figure out how to create an event in the calendar on a newer Palm OS device. Any ideas on how to do this? I'm guessing that I'll be creating a record in the calendar database, but the format of the…
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Palm OS. editing *.prc file

I'm interested by editing/erasing/copying/etc... code lines in *.prc file ( executable for Palm OS ). I tried to open prc files with text editors ( notepad and others ) but I cannot see code just symbols... So, I don't know... what I want to do…
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Multi-segmented PalmOS app/library in "background"

the question I am having is: when running my app with a launch code other than sysAppLaunchCmdNormalLaunch, I can not use code outside the default code segment - but could I use a shared library that is multi-segmented, thus circumventing this…
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Palm/Garnet OS Icon format?

I have googled around and not seen any info. What format and icon color depths are used for applications?
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Can I use the standard C library in a Palm OS application?

The published code for Palm OS applications doesn't include standard headers, but instead uses Palm OS APIs for things like StrCopy and MemMove. Can I use standard headers and functions or do I need to convert my code to use the Palm OS versions?
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NSBasic/Palm 4.4 Tutorial

Can someone please recommend me a very good tutorial for NSBasic 4.4 (please post a link). I've came from the Handheld Basic background, then I recently used another IDE from a friend which has a version of NSBasic, but my friend develops in…
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Using system's standard Edit menu in a Palm OS app

How can I use the standard Edit menu in my Palm OS application, instead of having to implement my own Cut/Copy/Paste/Keyboard handlers?
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