[Astroinfo-discuss] Re: Recent CVS changes. Support for older Palms dropped ???

[Ton v. O. <to...@v-...>]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:

> 2006/1/31, Ton van Overbeek <to...@v-...>:
> >
> > Looking at the recent CVS changes by Jochen it seems the new version wi=
ll
> > only support PalmOS 5 and not the previous versions (e.g. removing Clie
> > support, removing AI* functions, removing *Glue* functions).
> > I believe it should not be too hard to support older PalmOS versions.
> > The AI* functions were there just for that reason. Also the idea of the
> > Glue functions is to use the native PalmOS 5 function when it exists an=
d
> > use an equivalent workaround on the older PalmOS 4 functions.
> > Will AstroInfo be PalmOS 5.x only ???
>
> No, it still works for PalmOS 3.0.
>
> The Glue-Function was just removed, because the PalmOS-5 SDK supplies the
> Glue function, now.  This means that it can only be *compiled* against SD=
K 5,
> but works on any OS version since 3.0.  Note that the calls to this
> glue function
> were not removed.
>

Understood.

> Yes, I removed the Sony Cli=E9 High-Resolution calls.  Instead I decided
> to support
> High-Resolution only via the new HIGHDENSITY api (I think it was introduc=
ed
> in PalmOS5).  I'm not sure whether High Resolution did work properly on C=
LIE.
> The code stems from Peter if I remember correctly. There were some proble=
ms
> with Bitmaps of size > 64KB, that are fixed now. I have not tried to get =
the
> CLIE-emulator running, so far.
>
> So my plans: All versions since PalmOS 3.0 are supported.  High resolutio=
n only
> works if the device supports the palmone HIGHDENSITY api.
>

Wanted to submit patches to support the Palm Highdensity API, but never
came around doing it. I'll wait till you are finished with this and then
maybe add Clie support again. I do not have a Clie, but a running copy of
the Clie emulator and simulator.
Hardware Palms I have are Tungsten T, T3 and TX.

One other thing, you can get night-mode working in PalmOS 5. I'll have to
find my notes back how to do it.

Good to see there is activity again.

One thing I might be able to help with is resize support for 320x480 and
480x320.

Ton van Overbeek