P.S. I bought your book! (Palm OS Web Application Developer's Guide (With CD-ROM)) Now if I can just figure out how to get started...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Combee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 10:59 AM Subject: RE: Metrowerks Start-up Issues > To add to Eric's comment -- the folders that a recursive search ignores are > specified in the "Shielded Folders" pref panel. By default, it will ignore > CVS and folders surrounded in parenthesis, but you can add other types. > > As for access path roots > > {Compiler} is the CodeWarrior root > {Project} is the folder where your project file lives > {System} is your system folder, usually something like C:\WINDOWS for Win32 > boxen. It's rarely used for access paths, more often used for output files > on the Mac OS and Windows-targeting tools. > > You can add additional roots in the Source Trees panel, both at the project > and tool level. Those can be absolute, based on a registry setting, or > based on an environment variable. > > > At 09:35 AM 10/4/2005, you wrote: > >It searches what you tell it to search. The exception is that it will not > >enter any folder whose name is bracketed in parentheses. This is a legacy > >of it's Mac heritage, but it's a useful feature. > > > >CodeWarrior builds many different platforms, not just Palm, so it doesn't > >know anything about special folder names, other than those in parentheses. > >As a general rule, it's best to avoid setting paths to "{Compiler}" alone > >since there is so much stuff in there that isn't headers and libraries. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Logan Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 2:29 AM > > > To: Palm Developer Forum > > > Subject: Re: Metrowerks Start-up Issues > > > > > > > > > Eric Cloninger wrote: > > > > It's alright to remove the parentheses from those folders. However, > > > > any path in your project that is set to "{Compiler}" will > > > end up going > > > > into those folders. > > > > > > So the purpose (or at least the effect) of the parentheses is > > > to make the compiler ignore that directory when it > > > recursively searches the access path? It doesn't just search > > > "Palm OS Support" and ignore everything else? I guess my > > > assumptions were wrong... > > > > > > - Logan > > > > > > -- > > > For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or > > > to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > >For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to > >unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > > > -- Ben Combee, Senior Software Engineer, Palm, Inc. > "Combee on Palm OS" weblog: http://palmos.combee.net/ > Developer Forum Archives: http://news.palmos.com/read/all_forums/ > > > -- > For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
