With Cobalt (Palm OS 6), Palm OS has become a very sophisticated system and should be easier for developers to target than previous versions. Now that a wxPalmOS port looks more achievable, the wxWidgets team is offering a T5 Tungsten PDA (the first model to feature Cobalt) for the first person to show the wxWidgets minimal sample running under Palm OS 6. Any runners-up will be offered one of several smaller prizes. Since the T5 won't be available until later in 2004, initial development will need to be done on the PalmOS 6 simulator. You can download the free development environment based on Eclipse and Cygwin. There is also copious documentation available online. So - take up the challenge today and get tooled up! There is no hard deadline but we're aiming for end of 2004. News: congratulations to William Osborne who is the winner of our contest, having submitted code and screenshots of the minimal sample on 14th October 2004. The code is now integrated into wxWidgets CVS. Here are the screenshots:
The coming challenge is to build on this great start and get more samples running on Palm OS 6.
Contest conditions(Contest now closed.)
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