Julie McKeehan

Palm OS Programming (eBook, ePUB)

The Developer's Guide

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With more than 16 million PDAs shipped to date, Palm has defined the market for handhelds, having dominated this class of computing devices ever since it began to outpace competitors six years ago. The company's strength is the Palm OS, and developers loyal to this powerful and versatile operating system have created more than 10,000 applications for it. Devices from Handspring, Sony, Symbol, HandEra, Kyocera, and Samsung now use Palm OS, and the number of registered Palm Developers has jumped to 130,000.If you know C or C++, and want to join those who are satisfying the demand for wireless applications, then Palm OS Programming: The Developer's Guide, Second Edition is the book for you. With expanded coverage of the Palm OS--up to and including the latest version, 4.0--this new edition shows intermediate to experienced C programmers how to build a Palm application from the ground up. There is even useful information for beginners.Everything you need to write a Palm OS application is here, from user interface design, to coding a handheld application, to writing an associated desktop conduit. All the major development environments are discussed, including commercial products such as Metroworks CodeWarrior, Java-based environments such as Sun KVM and IBM VisualAge Micro Edition, and the Free Software Foundation's PRC-Tools or GCC. The focus, however, is C programming with CodeWarrior and PRC-Tools. New additions to the second edition include:A tutorial that takes a C programmer through the installation of necessary tools and the creation of a small handheld application.A new chapter on memory, with a comprehensive discussion of the Memory Manager APIs.Greatly expanded discussions of forms, forms objects, and new APIs for the Palm OS.Updated chapters on conduits that reflect the newer Conduit Development Kit.The best-selling first edition of this book is still considered the definitive guide for serious Palm programmers; it's used as the basis of Palm's own developer training materials. Our expanded second edition promises to set the standard for the next generation of Palm developers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781449369071
• Artikelnr.: 38312651

Autorenporträt

Neil Rhodes and Julie McKeehan are experienced authors who, through their company, Calliope Enterprises, work closely with Palm Computing to develop new training materials, materials that are based on this book. They are both programmers with many years of experience working with hand-held systems. Neil and Julied authored several books on C++ and hand-held systems, and now bring their skills to the Palm Computing Platform. Julie has been a systems administrator, a director of software development at a successful Macintosh software company, a teacher (of programmers for Apple Developer University), and author (of Newton books, a C++ book, and an Internet book). Neil Rhodes and Julie McKeehan are experienced authors who, through their company, Calliope Enterprises, work closely with Palm Computing to develop new training materials, materials that are based on this book. They are both programmers with many years of experience working with hand-held systems. Neil and Julied authored several books on C++ and hand-held systems, and now bring their skills to the Palm Computing Platform. Neil has been a UNIX programmer (his fingers still know vi commands), a Mac programmer (shipped several commercial products), a teacher (of programmers for Apple Developer University), a Newton programmer (several commercial products, including some for Apple), and an author (of Newton books, a C++ book, and a Macintosh programming book). Neil has been working with Palm Computing on developing their training strategy and training materials for programmers. He works closely with many of the developer support engineers at Palm (many of whom he also worked with previously when they did Newton developer support).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
What's New in This Edition
The Source Code Web Site
Whom This Book Is for: C/C++ Programmers
What This Book Is About and How to Read It
How to Read This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
How to Contact Us
Versions of Tools
Who We Need to Thank
Overview of the Palm OS
Chapter 1: The Palm Solution
1.1 How Palm Succeeded
1.2 Elements in the Magic Formula
1.3 Easy to Carry
1.4 Inexpensive
1.5 Expandable
1.6 Effortlessly Connects to a Desktop Computer
1.7 Works Great and Is Simple to Use
1.8 Designing Applications for Palm Devices
1.9 In Conclusion
Chapter 2: Technical Overview and Development Environments
2.1 Palm OS Overview
2.2 Conduit Overview
2.3 Handheld Development Environments
2.4 Alternative Development Environments
2.5 High-Level Forms Development
2.6 Handheld Development Recommendations
2.7 Conduit Development
2.8 In Conclusion
Chapter 3: Designing a Solution
3.1 User Interface Elements in the Palm OS
3.2 Designing with a Particular User in Mind
3.3 The Well-Designed Form
3.4 Other Design Issues
3.5 How the Sample Applications Are Useful
3.6 User Interface of the Sales Application
3.7 Designing the Sales Application
3.8 Designing the Conduit
3.9 Design Summary
Programming a Palm Application
Chapter 4: Tutorial
4.1 POSE
4.2 CodeWarrior
4.3 PRC-Tools
4.4 Installing OReilly Sample project
4.5 Installing a PRC on the Handheld
4.6 Installing PRC on POSE
4.7 Modifying the Sample Application
Chapter 5: Structure of an Application
5.1 Terminology
5.2 Palm OS Conventions
5.3 The Palm OS and an Application
5.4 A Simple Application-OReilly Starter
5.5 Other Times Your Application Is Called
5.6 Examples
5.7 What to Remember
Chapter 6: Memory Manager
6.1 Types of Memory
6.2 Dynamic Memory Allocation
6.3 Stack Space
6.4 Handling Large Amounts of Data
6.5 Owner IDs
6.6 Cards and Local IDs
6.7 Using Memory Effectively
6.8 MemoryTestAPIs Example
6.9 What to Remember
Chapter 7: Debugging Palm Applications
7.1 POSE
7.2 Graffiti Debugging Shortcuts
7.3 Source-Level Debugging
7.4 Gremlins
7.5 Error Manager
7.6 Palm OS Sources
7.7 Low-Level Debugging with PalmDebugger
7.8 Device Reset
7.9 Using Simulator on Mac OS
7.10 Release/Debug Targets
Chapter 8: Resources and Forms
8.1 Resources
8.2 Form Characteristics
8.3 Form Events
8.4 Form-Level APIs
8.5 Modeless Forms
8.6 Alerts
8.7 Modal Dialog Boxes
8.8 Forms in the Sales Application
Chapter 9: Form Objects
9.1 Form Object Characteristics
9.2 Form Object Events
9.3 Form Object APIs
9.4 Types of Form Objects
9.5 Sales Application Forms and Form Objects
Chapter 10: Databases
10.1 Overview of Databases and Records
10.2 Opening, Creating, and Closing Databases
10.3 Working with Records
10.4 Examining Databases in the Sales Sample
10.5 Summary
Chapter 11: Menus
11.1 Menu User Interface
11.2 Menu Resources
11.3 Application Code for Menus
11.4 Adding Menus to the Sample Application
11.5 Summary
Chapter 12: Extras
12.1 Find
12.2 Exchange
Chapter 13: Communications
13.1 Serial Communications
13.2 TCP/IP Communications
Designing Conduits
Chapter 14: Getting Started with Conduits
14.1 Overview of Conduits
14.2 Using the Backup Conduit
14.3 Registering and Unregistering
14.4 Using Desktop APIs
14.5 Conduit Entry Points
14.6 The HotSync Log
14.7 When the HotSync Button Is Pressed
14.8 Using Conduit Inspector to Verify Your Conduit
14.9 Syncing from POSE
14.10 Creating a Minimal Sales Conduit
Chapter 15: Moving Data to and from the Handheld with a Conduit
15.1 Conduit Requirements
15.2 Where to Store Data
15.3 Creating, Opening, and Closing Databases
15.4 Moving Data to the Handheld
15.5 Moving Data to the Desktop
15.6 Keeping the HotSync Progress Dialog Box Alive
15.7 When the HotSync Button Is Pressed
15.8 Portability Issues
15.9 The Sales Conduit
Chapter 16: Two-Way Syncing
16.1 The Logic of Syncing
16.2 MFC Conduit Framework
16.3 Generic Conduit Framework
16.4 Generic Conduit Classes
16.5 Using the Wizard to Create a Minimal Generic Conduit
16.6 Custom File Formats
16.7 Handling Categories
16.8 Sales Conduit Based on Generic Conduit
Appendixes
Where to Go from Here
Palm Programming Book Web Site
The Official Palm Developer Site
Palm Programming Mailing Lists
Third-Party Palm Programming Resources
Sales Source Code
Source Code
Headers
Resources
PRC-Tools Build Files
PilRC Manual
Usage
Understanding the Manual
Resource Language Reference
FORM (tFRM)
MENU (MBAR)
ALERT (Talt)
VERSION
STRING (tSTR)
STRINGTABLE (tSTL)
CATEGORIES (tAIS)
APPLICATIONICONNAME (tAIN)
APPLICATION (APPL)
LAUNCHERCATEGORY (taic)
ICON (tAIB)
SMALLICON (tAIB)
BITMAP (Tbmp) (tbsb)
TRAP (TRAP)
FONT (NFNT)
FONTINDEX
HEX
DATA
INTEGER (tint)
BYTELIST (BLST)
WORDLIST (wrdl)
LONGWORDLIST (DLST)
PALETTETABLE (tclt)
FEATURE (tfea)
GRAFFITIINPUTAREA (silk)
COUNTRYLOCALISATION (cnty)
KEYBOARD (tkbd)
MIDI (MIDI)
International Support
Known Bugs
Colophon