Saturday, February 22, 2003

Well... I've started creating a new Cocoa framework to connect to the Newton's Dock. So far so good; I've gotten Cocoa's memory management and object classes wrapped around a couple of things. My NewtonPacket class can do lots of the connection library stuff in a much simpler manner, and with semi-automatic memory management. The NewtonTCPSocket class automates the TCP stuff. My test app flops in exactly the same place as Andrew Patrikalakis' PkgInstall-MacOSX command-line tool. Strange; the tool was working for me before, so I'm not sure where it's gone wonky. But at least my app and his are both misbehaving in a similar manner.

Why go to all this trouble? Well, I think that connecting directly to the Newton's Dock is important since speed is a real issue right now, many people want to install packages with NewtSync, and I don't have to worry about the Newton app being buggy.
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