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Liens

• http://stdk.de/da/links.html : Liste (exhaustive) de DA
• http://www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/h-yama/da/ : Page pas mis a jour depuis 2000

Les DA que j’ai installé sur mon clié:

• TeikeiDA?
• PsLink DA livré avec pslink, il permet de transformer le texte surligné en lien pslink.
• ezConv DA permet de faire des conversion d’unités
• Counter DA pour compter! base, increment, up, down…
• FDAL est un DA launcher qui se lance dès qu’un texte est séléctionné

Description

 > 1. What does it take to run a DA? Are they regular applications or do
 > you need something to make them work? If you need something to make
 > them work, what is your recommendation?

Do you remember PCs running MS-DOS, before Windows took over the world? DAs are exact analogues of the old MS-DOS TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) applications.

A DA is a PalmOS Applet. What makes it useful is that you can pop it up over a running application. When you dismiss it, you are back in the underlying app, at whatever point you left off. Possible uses include popup calendars, calculators, notes, and search functions.

 > 2. Are there any restrictions on what devices or OS can run DAs? I
 > have a Palm Zire 71. (OS5)

Not really. The only requirement is that you have a DA launcher installed. DAs don’t show up as icons in the launcher. A DA launcher lets you select and run the DA you wish to use at any particular moment. You generally invoke the DA launcher through a configureable tap or swipe to get a list of installed DAs, then tap one on the list to run it.

There are less choices in DA launchers for OS 5 than there are for OS 4. The one I use on my Tungsten E is Hacker-Dude San’s DA Launcher 5.0. You can find it, along with some sample DAs, at http://simple-palm.com/index-e.html

I also use Mike McCollister’s McPhling. McPhling is a popup menu of frequently used applications which can also launch DAs. McPhling is open source shareware. You can get it here: http://www.mikemccollister.com/palm/

 > 3. Where is a good source for DAs? Are they listed on places like Palm
 > Gear?

PalmGear is one source. Freeware Palm is another. If you really get into DAs, you’ll find yourself in the wonderful world of Japanese websites, because the programmer who first came up with the idea is Japanese, and so are most of the folks doing DA development.

One good DA to start with is Raku DA, which provides popup access to Palm’s ToDo, Datebook, and Memopad. I have it mapped to the Clock button on the Silkscreen area, since I never use that function. I map it with BDAL, a DA launcher that lets you map DAs to device buttons.

You can get Raku DA at: http://www.freewarepalm.com/utilities/rakuda.shtml

And BDAL may be had from: http://muchy.com/review/bdal.html