Blackberry RIM 950 Installing the application

64 Building applications — Installing the application

Developer’s Guide – RIM 950 Wireless Handheld™

You should now be able to compile and debug your application using

the RIM 950 Wireless Handheld SDK.

Installing the application

There are two utilities available to install the application on a RIM

Wireless Handheld, the PROGRAMMER.EXE utility and the Desktop

Manager software shipped with every RIM Wireless Handheld.

Installing the application with PROGRAMMER.EXE has been covered (see

page 39 for a description of the LOAD command action). Note that you

cannot run the Desktop Manager and PROGRAMMER.EXE at the same

time.

Normally, installation of a distributed application is done using the

Application Loader in the Desktop Manager software. To make your

application visible to the Desktop Manager software, you need to set

certain registry keys; the Desktop Manager looks for those keys and

creates an entry for your application.

Depending upon your distribution method, you can either set the keys

directly or you can create an application loader information file with a

.ALI file extension.

The registry keys are installed in the hive under

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Research In Motion/Desk top

Software/Loader/Applications/DisplayName. Note that the Displa y Name

is both the name of the key and a value in the key.

Value Name Value Type Meaning

Description REG_SZ The text displayed in the

description field of the Application

Loader when one of the items in

the app list is selected.

Corresponds to the

<DESCRIPTION> tag of the ALI

file.

DisplayName REG_SZ The name of the app as displayed

in the A

lication Loader.