PocketStudio by Winsoft is an IDE supporting rapid application development (RAD) for

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and related operating systems such as Garnet OS or

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. In some regard similar to Delphi and Lazarus, it has a visual form designer, an object inspector and a

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Distinguishing features

PocketStudio's programming language is a subset of Pascal that has been adapted to the needs of Palm OS development. The

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generates native code targeting the Motorola MC68000 family microprocessor. For debugging, the Palm OS

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POSE is embedded. As an alternative, the Garnet OS simulator can be used. PocketStudio integrates wireless development including

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technologies. Other features are a project manager, code templates, inline

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support and code examples. The IDE runs on

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and generates

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files for being transferred to handhelds via

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or for distribution via

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or storage media.

Supporting third party libraries

Several APIs support development with PocketStudio via special libraries. Examples are:
ASE.PalmLibrary
a multipurpose library * ASTA SkyWire (see below)
Cephes
a collection of mathematical routines for scientific and engineering applications

shared library of IEEE-754 double math functions
VoiceIt
voice recognition software

a shared library that enables printing support in applications

Applications produced with PocketStudio

ASTA SkyWire Client for Palm OS
a cross-platform wireless toolkit with PocketStudio interface libraries.
SPINA
is a medical cybernetic software package, that allows for calculating constant structure parameters of endocrine feedback control systems from hormone levels obtained in vivo. This free software comes with source code for Lazarus/ FPC and PocketStudio.
SITKPalm
a System Information Tool Kit for Palm OS.

External links

winsoft
* ews://news.winsoft.sk winsoft news server with several groups on PocketStudiobr>PocketStudio developers forum
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