Creating or customising XML screens

[Guest Honest John]

I have been playing around with creating variations on some of the XML screens posted on the Forum. This has been a tedious affair because of the method I have used, coupled with my own incompetence.

I have used the following technique, (if you can call it a technique)

1. Copy the XML to PC

2. Edit the XML

3. Copy the XML to the SPV

4 Change the Home screen on the SPV to, say, Orange Layout 1

5. "Done"

6. Change it back to the updated XML screen

7. See the error in the layout.

8. Go back to 1.

Is there a PC based emulator that reads the XML and shows it as it would appear on the SPV so that I could develop the XML on the PC and get it right without all this mucking about?

Above all, being from North of the Border, is it FREE?

[Guest Shuflie]

Yes, its supplied by microsoft as part of the SDK. Get it from http://www.microsoft.com/mobile/developer/...ads/default.asp

You need the smartphone SDK and the embeded visual tools.

[Guest Honest John]

Unfortunately, the SDK requires Windows 2000 and I am on Windows 98.

Any other ideas, folks?

Thanks.