Hacking PalmSim – Or a Bit More Realistic Simulation

5 Responses to “Hacking PalmSim – Or a Bit More Realistic Simulation”

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   Brennan Underwood says:

   October 18, 2007 at 6:57 am

   I can’t believe how many times I right-clicked and picked “Reset” when I could have been hitting Control-R.
2. 

   Ryan Rix says:

   October 18, 2007 at 8:43 pm

   Hi,

   Glad it helped!
3. 

   Brent Chiodo says:

   October 19, 2007 at 10:27 pm

   While searching for what acts as the “Center Button” on the five-way, I came across this post at TreoCentral:

   Guys… I recently did this whole PODS download and development using PODS, then downloading the palmOne specific headers etc. I wish I could just write this all up in one post and help y’all right away. I’ll try to writeup a “How to ‘really’ get started” FAQ and send out a link when I get a chance.
   In the meanwhile, try opening a new project in PODS, and select the sample app template, its a good way to get started for generic palm development.
   Once you get a hang of that then download the palmOne specific headers that allow you to gain access of the 5-way. I had to manually tweak my makefile to compile with these headers and link with their library.
   For API help :
   http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/docs/palmos/PalmOSCompanion/CompanionTOC.html
   http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/docs/dev_suite/PalmOSDevSuite/ToolsTOC.html

   Keymappings I found from a file were:
   4- Key mapping

   The UI is vastly mouse (pen) driven. There are a few important keys to know
   however:

   esc -> power key
   page up -> up key
   page down -> down key
   F1 to F4 -> applicative hard keys
   F5 -> toggles cursor coordinates reporting on or off
   pause/attn-> simulates a shortcut .. stroke. The user can then *draw* a
   number or character sequence

   Control Keys:

   Control+A Displays the menu
   Control+C Command character
   Control+D Confirmation character.
   Control+E Displays the application launcher
   Control+F Displays the onscreen keyboard
   Control+I Jump to the Find Dialog
   Control+K Jump to the Calculator app
   Control+M Enters a linefeed character
   Control+N Jumps to the next field
   Control+P Jumps to the previous field
   Control+R Does a soft reset
   Contorl+Shift+R Does a hard reset
   Control+S Automatic off character
   Control+Pause Enters the 68K debugger

   The following shortcuts are not supported by the NT Simulator:
   Control+B Low battery warning
   Control+T Sets or unsets hard contrasts
   Control+U Turns backlighting on or off

   Most others keys can be used to input text while a field is active.

   It seems to be missing the “Home” key which acts as the ‘select’ button of the 5-way.

   If you are curious to know what I wrote up.. its at:
   http://bhutech.homeip.net/~sidster/TheFirstBench/project_room_finder.html

   Its probably not useful to the general crowd, since it has specifics of where I work.

   More later,
   Sid Vajirkar
4. 

   Ryan Rix says:

   October 20, 2007 at 1:37 am

   Hi Brent,

   Nice find! Those links are dead though. Here’s a link to the access site’s PalmSim manual: http://www.access-company.com/developers/documents/docs/palm_os_garnet_simulator54/Simulator_MenuReference.html#999849

   Thanks for the info Brent!
   Ryan
5. 

   Tam Hanna says:

   October 23, 2007 at 12:18 pm

   Hi,
   very useful list – congratz!

   Best regards
   Tam Hanna