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About This Document

Palm OS SDK Documentation
What This Volume Contains

1 Programming Palm OS in a Nutshell

Why Programming for Palm OS Is Different
Screen Size
Quick Turnaround Expected
PC Connectivity
Input Methods
Power
Memory
File System
Backward Compatibility
Palm OS Programming Concepts
Programming Tools
Where to Go From Here

2 Good Design Practices

Designing Your Application
Integrating Programs With the Palm OS Environment
Naming Conventions
Achieving Optimum Performance
Assigning a Creator ID
Working With Databases
Writing Robust Code
Avoiding Potential Pitfalls
User Interface Guidelines
Understanding the Palm OS UI Design Philosophy
Creating a Palm OS User Interface
Palm OS Resource Selection: List or Table?
Localization Guidelines
Making Your Application Run on Different Devices
Running New Applications on an Older Device
Compiling Older Applications With The Latest SDK

3 Application Startup and Stop

Launch Codes and Launching an Application
Responding to Launch Codes
Responding to Normal Launch
Responding to Other Launch Codes
Launching Applications Programmatically
Creating Your Own Launch Codes
Stopping an Application
Launch Code Summary

4 Event Loop

The Application Event Loop
Low-Level Event Management
Event Translation: Pen Strokes to Key Events
Pen Queue Management
Key Queue Management
Auto-Off Control
System Event Manager Summary

5 User Interface

Palm OS Resource Summary
Drawing on the Palm OS Device
The Draw State
Drawing Functions
Forms, Windows, and Dialogs
Alert Dialogs
Progress Dialogs
Controls
Buttons
Popup Trigger
Selector Trigger
Repeating Button
Push Buttons
Check Boxes
Sliders and Feedback Sliders
Fields
Menus
Dynamic Menus
Menu Shortcuts
Tables
Table Event
Lists
Categories
Bitmaps
Labels
Scroll Bars
Custom UI Objects
Dynamic UI
Dynamic User Interface Functions
Color and Grayscale Support
Color Table
UI Color List
Insertion Point
Text
Working With Text As Strings
Fonts in Palm OS 3.0 and Later
Receiving User Input
The Graffiti Manager
The Key Manager
The Pen Manager
Application Launcher
Summary of User Interface API

6 Memory

Introduction to Palm OS Memory Use
Hardware Architecture
PC Connectivity
Memory Architecture
Heap Overview
The Memory Manager
Memory Manager Structures
Using the Memory Manager
Optimizing Memory Manager Performance
Summary of Memory Management

7 Files and Databases

The Data Manager
Records and Databases
Structure of a Database Header
Using the Data Manager
The Resource Manager
Structure of a Resource Database Header
Using the Resource Manager
File Streaming Application Program Interface
Using the File Streaming API
Summary of Files and Databases

8 Palm System Features

Alarms
Setting an Alarm
Alarm Scenario
Setting a Procedure Alarm
Features
The System Version Feature
Application-Defined Features
Using the Feature Manager
Feature Memory
Notifications
Registering for a Notification
Writing a Notification Handler
Sleep and Wake Notifications
Sound
Synchronous and Asynchronous Sound
Using the Sound Manager
Sound Preferences Compatibility Information
System Boot and Reset
Soft Reset
Soft Reset + Up Arrow
Hard Reset
System Reset Calls
Hardware Interaction
Palm OS Power Modes
Guidelines for Application Developers
Power Management Calls
The Microkernel
Retrieving the ROM Serial Number
Time
Using Real-Time Clock Functions
Using System Ticks Functions
Floating-Point
Using Floating Point Arithmetic
Using 1.0 Floating-Point Functionality
Summary of System Features

9 Serial Communication

Serial Hardware
Byte Ordering
Serial Communications Architecture Hierarchy
The Serial Manager
Using the Serial Manager
The New Serial Manager
Checking for the New Serial Manager
What's New About the New Serial Manager
About the New Serial Manager
Using the New Serial Manager
New Serial Manager Example
Writing a Serial or Virtual Device Driver
The Connection Manager
The Serial Link Protocol
SLP Packet Structures
Transmitting an SLP Packet
Receiving an SLP Packet
The Serial Link Manager
Using the Serial Link Manager
Summary of Serial Communications

10 Beaming (Infrared Communication)

Exchange Manager
Overview
Exchange Manager and Launch Codes
IR Library
IrDA Stack
Accessing the IR Library
Summary of Beaming

11 Network Communication

Net Library
About the Net Library
Net Library Usage Steps
Obtaining the Net Library's Reference Number
Setting Up Berkeley Socket API
Setup and Configuration Calls
Opening the Net Library
Closing the Net Library
Version Checking
Network I/O and Utility Calls
Berkeley Sockets API Functions
Extending the Network Login Script Support
Internet Library
System Requirements
Initialization and Setup
Accessing Web Pages
Asynchronous Operation
Using the Low Level Calls
Cache Overview
Internet Library Network Configurations
Summary of Network Communication

12 Internet and Messaging Applications

Overview of the Palm.Net System
Palm Query Applications
Palm.Net System Overview
System Version Checking
Using Clipper to Display Information
Launching Other Applications from Clipper
Sending Messages
New keyDownEvent Key Codes
Over the Air Characters

13 Localized Applications

Localization Guidelines
Using Overlays to Localize Resources
Text Manager and International Manager
Characters
Declaring Character Variables
Using Character Constants
Missing and Invalid Characters
Retrieving a Character's Attributes
Virtual Characters
Retrieving the Character Encoding
Strings
Manipulating Strings
Performing String Pointer Manipulation
Truncating Displayed Text
Comparing Strings
Global Find
Dynamically Determining a String's Contents
Dates
Numbers
Compatibility Information
Notes on the Japanese Implementation
Japanese Character Encoding
Japanese Character Input
Displaying Japanese Strings on UI Objects
Displaying Error Messages
Summary of Localization

14 Debugging Strategies

Displaying Development Errors
Using the Error Manager Macros
Understanding the Try-and-Catch Mechanism
Using the Try and Catch Mechanism
Summary of Debugging API

15 Standard IO Applications

Creating a Standard IO Application
Creating a Standard IO Provider Application
Summary of Standard IO

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