Roberto,
First, don't expect an editor on board of a Palm device to be as convenient as a PC editor! Screen is smaller, memory is not infinite, processors are slowlier.
This being said, I believe that the editors available for the Palm devices are numerous and functional enough.
PIAF is widely used, by PP and iziBasic developers because of its syntax color highlighting which is a very convenient feature. And most of iziBasic itself and its 15,000 lines of code or so were coded with PIAF. It's just a question of getting used to it.
Its bottom line icons are (from left to right):
open file, new file, find, find next, copy, paste, compile, build (or make, I don't remember and never use this one), run
A few discussions around this topic of converting a .BAS file to .PDB were already discussed here.
May I invite you to give a look at them:
1.
http://www.aldweb.com/thread.php?lng=en&thrd=9652.
http://www.aldweb.com/thread.php?lng=en&thrd=11053.
http://www.aldweb.com/thread.php?lng=en&thrd=1128 (this one in French, search for "TL-PDB" and "SiED").
I discovered not later than yesterday a new tool which seems to be very promising:
http://palmfiction.sourceforge.net (it is in Russian but the snapshot says it all!).
I don't know why a file coverted by PalmDoc ends up not to be read by iziBasic. Is it because of .PRC extension? Or more probably because it ended up in the DOC compressed format?
iziBasic only works with the uncompressed format, so just a question of saving in the right format.
Cheers
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aldweb