The Geos SDK, in my opinion, is a poorly documented and unwieldy
thing. Unfortunately, you must have it to program in Geos. You must
also have Borland C/C++ 3.1 or 4.0 and TWO computers. One as the
host and one as the target. (You could get away with one machine
if you never planned on using the debugger - i.e. fat chance)
The documentation (comes on disk in Acrobat format) is lengthy
but far from complete. It is hard to navigate and sometimes wrong.
The SDK has some good points too. Plenty of example code, the target
environment can emulate many platforms (desktop, Zoomer, PT-9000)
and will run on a lower power machine (386-286). The Geos Language
is called GOC and is a superset of C. If you are familiar with C, you
can learn GOC quickly. It is truly and object-oriented OS and GOC
refelects that wonderfully.
Bottom line: If you want to program for Geos and IZL doesn't cut
it for you, you have to get this. But you'll need patience and a
willingness to experiment to find out what works.
Regards, Mike Phillips
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From: ZygZ@aol.com[SMTP:ZygZ@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 1995 8:59 PM
To: zoomer-list@blob.best.net
Subject: Re: Bookreader
I also ordered Bindery. I was very tempted to order the SDK but don't know
much about the SDK. I would be very interested in what you think of the SDK.
I took a look at the GEOS homepage and mostly everybody that bellyached about
the SDK said that the documentation was very poor. Not being much of a
programmer (I'm a hardware enginner) I'm leary that I could use it. I have
programmed a bit in C and Pascal but I don't know anything about SDK.
Any advice on SDK from anyone out there?
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