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Adding plug-in applications – Palm Tungsten T5 User Manual

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CHAPTER 25

Customizing Your Handheld

Adding plug-in applications

You can create plug-in applications containing script commands that extend the functionality of
the built-in script commands. A plug-in application is a standard PRC application that you install
on your handheld just like any other application. After you install the plug-in application, you can
use the new script commands in a login script.

For example, you might use a plug-in application in the following situations:

• You need the login script to properly respond to different connection scenarios defined by the

authentication server.

• You want to perform conditional tests and branching as part of the login process.

Plug-in applications have the following characteristics:

• Written in C language

• Compiled into a device executable

• Called properly from a login script

• Able to return control to a login script after it terminates

• Created using a development environment that supports Palm OS

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software, such as

Metrowerks CodeWarrior tools.

Tip

For more info on creating
plug-in applications,
contact Developer
Support at PalmSource.