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Write custom Palm OS Cobalt applications for business, communications, entertainment, and other uses with help from the step-by-step guide. Following a start-to-finish sample application, you ll learn to work in the Palm OS Developer Suite to build programs that run on all Palm OS devices, including the palmOne Treo, Tungsten, and Zire models, Sony CLIÉs, the Fossil Wrist PDA, and many others. Create user interface elements such as buttons and scroll bars, develop databases, and much more. Plus, you ll learn to test your applications and apply the tricks and techniques used by professional programmers.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Palm: The OS, The Devices
Chapter 2: Creating a Palm OS Application
Chapter 3: Fields, Menus, and Alerts
Chapter 4: Applications and Forms
Chapter 5: Bitmaps, Labels, and Buttons
Chapter 6: Selector Triggers, Repeating Buttons, and Sliders
Chapter 7: Pushbuttons and Check Boxes
Chapter 8: Schema Databases
Chapter 9: Lists
Chapter 10: Tables
Chapter 11: Categories
Chapter 12: Classic Databases
Chapter 13: Creating Effective User Interfaces
Chapter 14: A Survey of Tools and Solutions
Appendix A: Porting Older Applications to OS Cobalt
About the author
Robert Mykland is a master applications developer and high technology entrepreneur with a broad technical background. He is an expert Palm OS developer, and is one of the few people worldwide certified by Palm Computing, Inc. to teach developers Palm OS. He has spent considerable time recently connecting to the top 20 databases using ODBC, JDBC, and OleDB. Using his expertise with C++ he has developed numerous major applications for Windows, the Power Macintosh, and UNIX. He has done groundbreaking work in Internet technologies, text recognition, multitasking and multiprocessing operating systems, and control systems. He has participated in seven high-technology startups. He holds a bachelor's degree in Physics from UC Berkeley.Jim Keogh is on the faculty of Columbia University teaching courses in its technology certification program. He has spent 15 years developing computer systems for major Wall Street firms such as Salomen, Inc. and Bear Stearns and has written several best-selling books for Prentice Hall and IDG.
