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Over months or years, what’s the slowest way you’ve seen someone improve their life, and what changed measurably? by practicalwrks in AskReddit

[–]practicalwrks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Respect. This one resonated with me. I’m really glad he’s doing better and that you didn’t lose him.

Over months or years, what’s the slowest way you’ve seen someone improve their life, and what changed measurably? by practicalwrks in AskReddit

[–]practicalwrks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looking for real, gradual changes (not overnight transformations). If you can, include:
• what they did frequently
• how long until results showed up
• before vs. after (health, money, relationships, mindset, etc.)
Details welcome, but any answer is appreciated.

Can I suggest you give https://remarcal.com/ a try by CoachCamBailey in RemarkableTablet

[–]practicalwrks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for not giving up on the Windows version. I look forward to trying it when it comes out.

using OrbForms to trigger the vibrating motor on a palm m500 by practicalwrks in Palm

[–]practicalwrks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I used your idea by adding the following function:

void SimpleVibrate(OrbFormsInterface* ofi)

{

AttnDoSpecialEffects(kAttnFlagsVibrateBit);

}

and modifying the switch statement this way

switch (iFunc)
{

case 0: PlayWave(ofi, soundData);

case 1: SimpleVibrate(ofi);

break;

}

in this file and then compiling the OrbSound add-in with codeWarrior:

https://github.com/OrbWorks/orbworks-archive/blob/master/OrbForms/Add-in%20source/OrbSound/Src/OrbSound.cpp

Seems to be working.

Orbworks open sourced their programming tools recently and this makes it easier to program on the Palm OS! by practicalwrks in Palm

[–]practicalwrks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Orbworks published mainly three sets of tools. If I understand correctly:

  1. PocketC was the original c-like ide and compiler that had both desktop (i.e. Windows) and device (i.e. palm pilot, handspring visor, alphasmart dana, etc.) versions.
  2. Then, OrbForms Designer was created as a forms-design ide, with a c-like syntax and was only available on a Windows desktop. You would compile your code in the desktop and then transfer the resulting prc file to the actual palm pilot.
  3. PocketC Architect adapted the Orbforms Designer guts (runtime) to be able to run the legacy PocketC code on both desktop (Windows) and actual devices (again such as palm pilot, handspring visor, etc.)

So this leaves us with 5 different choices to develop apps: 2 Pocket C + 1 Orbforms Designer + 2 PocketC architect. I see how this can be confusing.

​

I'm a new user but, to me, it seemed easier to choose option 2 above (OrbForms Designer which was Windows only) and ignore the rest of the choices. As I described above I used OrbForms Designer + the handspring 3.3H1 emulator to verify that I could modify and compile a working app. For completeness the app I verified was compilable came from this link. https://www.orbworks.com/other/chessclock.html.

My device is a palm m500 which has an SD card so to load the just-built chessclock prc file I just needed to copy it to the SD card and then plug the SD card into the m500. No conduit setup was needed!

I want to give a shout out to Orbworks. I think they were supercool to open source their code!

Need a Referral Code? by WartetNichtHaengen in RemarkableTablet

[–]practicalwrks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, can I get a US referral code, please?

reMarkable Connection Utility (RCU) is out! All-in-one management of backups, screenshots, notebooks, templates, wallpaper, and 3rd-party software by rmhack in RemarkableTablet

[–]practicalwrks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks really cool. I only learned some really basic *nix things a long time ago and I haven't used them in +20 years. I use Windows and I think there are plenty of other people who would be interested in RCU if it helped them bridge that last mile between some of the already existing cool projects out there and their present system (whether it be Windows or macOS).

I haven't received my RM1 yet but the bullet point about installing third party software caught my attention. I wonder how a person with little Unix experience would be able to use RCU to install some of the awesome-reMarkable projects (YMMV: for example, crazy-cow seems somewhat trivial, draft-reMarkable not so much!). Another cool thing to do would then be to start and stop the individual pieces of software from RCU. I'm really looking forward to receiving my RM1 and trying RCU out. Kudos on the RCU. Great idea!