Re: PDA's

[Rob Veenker <veenker@xs4all.nl>]

stephane richard wrote:

> "ps42" <ps42@.no spam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
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>>  I'm looking for a pda that i can programme. So i can basically put my
>>  own
>> buttons and informtion on.
>>
>> Any information on a PDA that does that, or a specific software and pda
>> that i can use, would be great.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
> 
> As far as programmable PDAs goes, There's more than one model.  I've found
> some programming language or another on pretty much all of Palm's series
> of
> PDAs.  I have a PSION REVO+ which I happen to like alot because of it's
> layout and that one is programmable as well in OPL (a somewhat BASIC like
> language) C++ and Java and of course Assembler.
> 
> For palm: http://mobile.eric-poncet.com/palm/tutorial.html
> 
> For PSION PDAs you can go to the Symbian OS website
> http://www.symbian.com/developer/
> 
> The good think about a Symbian OS machine, is that Ada can be compiled to
> Java bytecode and Symbian can/does run Java.
> 
> My 2cents ;-)
> 
> Stephane Richard
> "Ada World" webmaster
> http://www.adaworld.com

Besides JGNAT, which works well on most PDA's (the trick is to get a JVM :-)
there now is MGNAT for PDA's as well. There will be a tutorial by Martin
Carlisle in the next SigAda conference in Atlanta.

I have already successfully ported (well copied and compiled :-) some
applications on the iPAQ. It integrates even into the Visual Studio .Net so
you can debug the Ada code as well on the emulated PDA.
For this, MGNAT generates debug info into the .IL files

There should be an official release soon

-- 
regards,

Rob Veenker