AppForge Launches Industry's First-Ever Visual Basic Development Environment for Palm OS Platform.Business Editors & Technical Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 2000 Product enables programmers to develop custom applications for Palm OS devices It may never be fully completed or, depending on its its nature, it may be that it can never be completed. However, new and revised entries in the list are always welcome. This is a list of Palm OS devices, and companies that make, or have made, them. AppForge, Inc., a leading provider of application development solutions for handheld and mobile devices, announced today at PalmSource(TM) the release of AppForge, the first Visual Basic (VB) development environment for the Palm OS(R) platform. AppForge is a technology that enables VB Programmers to create sophisticated applications for the Palm Powered(TM) handheld market. The introduction of the AppForge development environment brings more than 6 million VB developers worldwide into the handheld computer A computing device that can be easily held in one hand while the other hand is used to operate it. The Palm devices are a popular example. See Palm, smartphone and palmtop. space. No other product has ever enabled such a large base of programmers to begin developing applications for a new market overnight. Fully integrated into Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, AppForge gives VB developers for the first time the ability to create applications for the Palm OS platform without having to learn a new or proprietary language. Previously, developers had to use programming languages such as C++ or Java and it often took days or weeks to develop applications. Now, the same applications can be developed in hours. "That AppForge is empowering the Visual Basic developers of the world to create applications for Palm Powered handhelds is great news for users," said Jerry Jalaba, vice president, Enterprise, at Palm, Inc. "The bottom line is that users can expect many more new applications to choose from." Using AppForge, applications are compiled as Windows executable files, allowing the developer to debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. and execute the application on their desktop before synchronizing synchronizing, n a technique that a therapist uses to coordinate his or her breath with that of the client; builds trust and establishes relationship. the application to their Palm Powered device. Consequently, the Palm OS application can then be e-mailed to others or copied to a network drive, allowing the application to be run and tested on desktop and notebook computers. AppForge supports handheld devices with as little as 2MB of memory and runs on Palm OS 3.1 and later. "AppForge is creating new possibilities in handheld and mobile applications for VB developers," said Doug Armstrong Douglas "Doug" Armstrong is the current General Manager of the NHL's Dallas Stars. He has been with the organization since 1991, and was appointed as General Manager January 25, 2002. He won the Stanley Cup with the Stars in 1999. , founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of AppForge, Inc. "For the first time, we're opening the popular Palm OS platform to Windows developers." Response from the recently closed beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the program was so great that AppForge decided to cap the number of participants at 1,000, more than four times the original number allowed in the program. "I must admit, there is nothing quite like the feeling of seeing your first application run in such little time, and exactly like you would expect it to go," commented one beta tester. AppForge costs $695, the Booster runtime is free, and both are available on the company's web site. For more information or to purchase AppForge, visit www.appforge.com. About AppForge Established in 1999, AppForge, Inc. is the first and only company to allow Microsoft Visual Basic programmers to easily and quickly create sophisticated applications for handheld, mobile and embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. devices. The AppForge executive team has more than 50 years of combined experience developing mobile and embedded application An application that permanently resides in an industrial or consumer device. Providing some type of control function and/or user interface, the software is typically stored in a non-volatile memory such as ROM or flash memory. for the wireless market. For more information on AppForge, visit the company's Web site at www.appforge.com. Palm OS is a registered trademark and Palm, PalmSource and Palm Powered are trademarks of Palm, Inc. or its subsidiaries. |
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