About This Document

Palm OS SDK Reference is part of the Palm OS^® Software Development Kit. This introduction provides an overview of SDK documentation, discusses what materials are included in this document, and what conventions are used.

Palm OS SDK Documentation

The following documents are part of the SDK:

Document	Description
Palm OS SDK Reference	An API reference document that contains descriptions of all Palm OS function calls and important data structures.
Palm OS Programmer's Companion	A guide to application programming for the Palm OS. This volume contains conceptual and "how-to" information that complements the Reference.
CodeWarrior Constructor for the Palm OS Platform	A guide to using CodeWarrior Constructor to create Palm OS resource files.
Palm OS Programming Development Tools Guide	A guide to writing and debugging Palm OS applications with the various tools available.

What This Volume Contains

This section provides an overview of this volume.

• Part I, "User Interface," documents the API contained in the header files in the \Incs\Core\UI\ folder. This part contains chapters covering subjects such as application launch codes, user interface resources, events, and all window, form, and field object managers.
  
  
• Part II, "System Management," documents the API contained in the header files in the \Incs\Core\System\ folder. This part contains chapters covering subjects such as the alarm manager, data and resource manager, feature manager, float manager, graffiti manager, key manager, memory manager, preferences manager, sound manager, string manager, and system manager.
  
  
• Part III, "Communications," documents the API related to communications, such as the exchange manager, IR library, net library, serial manager, and serial drivers.
  
  
• Part IV, "Libraries," documents the API contained in the header files in the \Incs\Libraries\ folder. This part contains chapters covering the Internet Library and the Palm OS Glue library.