[ PalmOS programming

I thought that we'd be out of the rainy season once we got into July, but they
haven't made the announcement yet in the news. We've had a lot of rainy and/or
overcast days this summer and I have been enjoying them. I am not looking
forward to endless days of sunshine and brutal heat. I have had seasonal affect
in winter before and I don't want it in summer.

For a while now I have wanted a PalmOS program to keep score when playing golf
or straight pool. I didn't want to use Android or iOS so I searched high and
low but I couldn't find anything for Palm that fit the bill. I therefore set
about in making one myself and it was not at all easy.

The biggest obstacle for me is that I am not a software developer. Even if I
have access to really good documentation, unless it's geared towards hopeless
idiots I still get lost. So I resorted to a certain kind of coding which so
many people hate.

The easiest program I could find was Handheld Basic++ (it's on palmdb.net.) You
get a blank PalmOS program window and in it you can add buttons and fields and
so on. Of course you have to add code in the background to make the program do
anything and that's where I got stuck. I couldn't figure out diddly squat even
after spending many hours over several days reading the documentation, going
over references and poking around the source code of sample programs.

So I found the .chm Windows help file and converted it to a PDF, then I fed
that PDF into GPT4ALL (LLMs you can run locally.) With some specific prompts
and a lot of time and patience I was finally able to get some help.

SOME help, with quite a lot of noise to filter out. I did get a program working
the way I like it, but I will not be pursuing any more development. I'm just
not cut out for it.