What is a hack for palm ?

[Yul]

I often can hear the word 'hack' in palm forum...

What is a hack for palm ?

[n2ifp]

They are little applets that run, usually using a hack master program. Most of them don't work in OS5, although now there are some stand a lone apps like Okey, McPhling, Energy Dimmer, etc. They all can be found on PalmGear.

[jimod]

They are also called extensions, and allow capabilities that were not included in the os, i.e. pop up calc, clock on all apps, font changes, etc.

[qijunkie]

Speaking of hacks, what hacks hack-like programs work on OS 5?

I just upgraded from a 760c and I'm bummed if I have to lose all my hacks.

Thanks

[yorrick]

Hacks was the original term for "application extentions" or a resident program that intercepted calls to the Palm and modified the call. For example, middlecaps hack would intercept the graffiti input and modify it so if it crosses a certain line - it would convert it into uppercase.

As the OS matured in OS3.5 and OS4, the term "hack" sounded too crude, so they renamed it "event manager" (which is a hack ... by another name!).

Now ... what hacks work in OS5?
There are a few programs which are OS5 compliant hacks - such as McPhling. But on the whole, the hacks have been re-written for OS5 as proper "event managers" which are more stable than the way hacks are handled (one example is Uninstall Manager).

The next question is " What software can support hacks?"
Answer - only TealMaster from www.tealpoint.com.

Other hack managers such as X-Master, YAHM and so on are compliant for OS4 and older.

Hope this helps!

[Inginious]

Very nice Yorrick :)