Palm Tungsten T5 manual Adding plug-in applications

CHAPTER 25 Customizing Your Handheld

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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® software, such as Metrowerks CodeWarrior tools.

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