[missing-sync-palmos-dev-talk] Looking for advice

[Jan ErikMoström]

On 2005-02-18 06:42, Brian Hall <brian_hall at markspace.com> wrote:

Thanks for the info, I'll look into it

> If you can share what sort of conduit you are working on, would be nice to
> hear. If you can't, that is fine too. Just curious!

:-) I've actually been planning to write some conduits for several years now
but have always waited "until I get some free time". Well, I never seem to
get any free time so I might as well go ahead and learn it anyway.

What caused me to look into this right now was that started to look at the
Mark/Space memopad file, I thought that if could write my own memo program
that was able to read/write directly to memopad file I wouldn't have to write
a conduit ... well I opened the file in an hexeditor and it looked liked
serialized objects (I'm not sure since I don't know Objective-C, is it even
possible to serialize  data in Objective-C?). So then I downloaded the
conduit SDK to see if I could find some clues there ... but since I'm
Objective-C illitrerate (yes, I should learn it) I started to think: I might
as well write my own conduit based on the examples.

So: at first a Memo conduit just to see if I can learn how to do it (and
since the example seems to have everything I should be able to do that ;-).
Then I have two commercial apps from two other companies that I would like to
see both a Mac desktop and Mac conduit for. I could write the desktop right
now but it wouldn't be useful without the conduit ... so I'll see how much
time it takes to understand how to make a simple conduit (time is the
critical sector for me).


                    ke,
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Jan Erik Moström   www.mostrom.pp.se