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plua@..., "Todd Oberly" <taoberly@...> wrote:
> 1) I see that it's possible to access the SD Card with vfs0: ...but is
> it also possible to access the DBCache area of RAM? If not, might
> this be a planned feature, or is there some technical hurdle? For
> example, I'd like to write a script that does some
> processing/cataloging of the photos in the "Photos & Videos" directory.
I do not know what DBCache is, but if it is a standard PalmOS database
(PDB) you can open it with io.open(), read or write records, etc.
> 2) I'm not so much interested in writing applications as writing
> GUI-less helper scripts that run "in the background". I compiled a
> demo from the manual that creates a new .pdb file. Each time it runs,
> it generates a white screen for a few seconds, and the screen that
> follows isn't necessarily what I was previously viewing. I know
> something about multitasking (or lack thereof) in Palm OS, but is
> there a way around this specific problem?
Plua programs can not run in the background. They will always open a
blank screen, as you noticed.
> 3) By the time you read this, maybe I'll have found it in the manual,
> but how do I launch an existing "appl" file with Plua? Does it matter
> where the program is located (ie. in the ROM, on the SD card, etc.)?
There is no way to launch PalmOS applications from within Plua.
Regards,
Marcio.
