Comments on: Nope, I am not porting to ALP (yet) http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2006/05/07/nope-i-am-not-porting-to-alp-yet/ Palm OS / web OS news and opinion source Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:33:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DataPath http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2006/05/07/nope-i-am-not-porting-to-alp-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-1628 DataPath Mon, 08 May 2006 17:22:10 +0000 http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2006/05/07/nope-i-am-not-porting-to-alp-yet/#comment-1628 Gtk is a cross-platform toolkit. It doesn't have to run on linux. That said, ALP includes what you might call a PalmOS runtime, to allow palm apps to run, and allow developers to compile them natively for devices, or build them the same way as always, and let them run emulated. Gtk is a cross-platform toolkit. It doesn’t have to run on linux. That said, ALP includes what you might call a PalmOS runtime, to allow palm apps to run, and allow developers to compile them natively for devices, or build them the same way as always, and let them run emulated.

]]> By: David Beers http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2006/05/07/nope-i-am-not-porting-to-alp-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-1492 David Beers Mon, 08 May 2006 01:29:53 +0000 http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2006/05/07/nope-i-am-not-porting-to-alp-yet/#comment-1492 The guidelines PalmSource gave were not about how to start porting your Palm OS apps to ALP. How could they be when the SDK and tools won't be released until the end of this year at the earliest? Instead, the "tutorial" (if you can call it that) was just some hints about how to get oriented toward Linux and GTK by trying it out on x86 Linux. While PalmSource claims it will be easy to port GTK+ apps to run on ALP, Linux developers should keep a few things in mind: first, the newsletter states that ALP will support only a subset of GTK+ 2; second, they still haven't stated whether ALP will include an X server, which will make a big difference when it comes to doing a port of some software from x86 Linux or GPE; thirdly, the preferred API for developing ALP applications is not going to be raw GTK, but the MAX application framework API, which sounds like it will could be somewhat more familiar to Palm developers than Linux developers; lastly, MAX will also be the only API that exposes the full range of ALP OS features. The guidelines PalmSource gave were not about how to start porting your Palm OS apps to ALP. How could they be when the SDK and tools won’t be released until the end of this year at the earliest? Instead, the “tutorial” (if you can call it that) was just some hints about how to get oriented toward Linux and GTK by trying it out on x86 Linux.

While PalmSource claims it will be easy to port GTK+ apps to run on ALP, Linux developers should keep a few things in mind: first, the newsletter states that ALP will support only a subset of GTK+ 2; second, they still haven’t stated whether ALP will include an X server, which will make a big difference when it comes to doing a port of some software from x86 Linux or GPE; thirdly, the preferred API for developing ALP applications is not going to be raw GTK, but the MAX application framework API, which sounds like it will could be somewhat more familiar to Palm developers than Linux developers; lastly, MAX will also be the only API that exposes the full range of ALP OS features.

]]> By: Peter Thorstenson http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2006/05/07/nope-i-am-not-porting-to-alp-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-1466 Peter Thorstenson Sun, 07 May 2006 16:15:29 +0000 http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2006/05/07/nope-i-am-not-porting-to-alp-yet/#comment-1466 GTK? Isn't that what Gnome is built-up with? In that case, it's pure Linux--not even a drop of Palm OS. What they want us to do is to port our Palm OS apps to work in Linus environment. Or did I get this wrong? In any case, I agree: Let's see what will come first. GTK? Isn’t that what Gnome is built-up with? In that case, it’s pure Linux–not even a drop of Palm OS. What they want us to do is to port our Palm OS apps to work in Linus environment. Or did I get this wrong? In any case, I agree: Let’s see what will come first.

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