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Using Palm OS® Emulator

Palm OS Developer Suite

Using Palm OS® Emulator provides you with conceptual, guidance and reference information on how you can use Palm OS Emulator to test your Palm OS applications.

Who Should Read This Book ^TOP^

If you are a Palm OS application developer, whether you are writing your first Palm OS application or you are an experienced Palm OS application developer, then this book is for you. Palm OS Emulator is a valuable tool for testing and debugging Palm OS applications.

In most cases, you will need to download ROM images for Palm OS Emulator from the Palm OS Developer Program's Resource Pavilion. As a result, you should join the Palm OS Developer Program. For more information, see "Loading ROM Images".

What This Book Contains ^TOP^

This book starts with a general overview of Palm OS Emulator, and continues with detailed procedural and reference information that describes how to use Emulator to test your Palm OS applications. It contains the following chapters:

Palm OS SDK Documentation ^TOP^

The following documents, which are part of the Palm OS Software Development Kit documentation set, will also be useful when you are developing and testing Palm OS applications.

Document

Description

Palm OS Programmer's API Reference

An API reference document that contains descriptions of all Palm OS function calls and important data structures.

Palm OS Programmer's Companion, vol. I and Palm OS Programmer's Companion, vol. II, Communications

A guide to application programming for the Palm OS. These volumes contain conceptual and "how-to" information that complements Palm OS Programmer's API Reference.

Palm OS Programming Development Tools Guide

A guide to the tools that can be used to develop, test, and debug Palm OS applications: Palm Simulator, Palm Debugger, Palm Reporter, console window, and resource overlay tools.

Constructor for Palm OS

A guide describing how to use Constructor for Palm OS to build graphical user interfaces for Palm OS applications.

Palm File Format Specification

Data layout specifications of installable files (PRC), databases (PDB), and webclipping applications (PQA).

Additional Resources ^TOP^

What's New for Palm OS Emulator 3.5 ^TOP^

What's New for Palm OS Emulator 3.4 ^TOP^

  • Common, cross-platform dialog boxes.
  • Support for multiple file selection in the Install Application dialog box.
  • New preferences for control skin appearance.
  • Detection of direct structure access.
  • Detection of memory leaks.
  • Detection of Overlay Manager errors.
  • Enhanced support for processing when errors and warnings occur.
  • Gremlin minimization function, including new Palm OS event files.
  • Host Control API functions HostDbgClearDataBreak, HostDbgSetDataBreak, HostImportFileWithID, and HostSessionSave.