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Palm OS Programming, 2nd Edition
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Palm OS Programming, 2nd Edition

by Julie McKeehan, Neil Rhodes
October 2001
Intermediate to advanced
704 pages
19h 33m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Resource Language Reference

The .rcp file may contain the following object definitions:

FORM

Form resource

MENU

Form menu bar

ALERT

Alert dialog box resource

VERSION

Version string

STRING

String resource

STRINGTABLE

String list resource

CATEGORIES

Default category names

APPLICATIONICONNAME

Application icon name

APPLICATION

Application creator ID

LAUNCHERCATEGORY

Default launcher category name

ICON
ICONFAMILY

Icon bitmap resource

SMALLICON
SMALLICONFAMILY

Small icon bitmap resource

BITMAP
BITMAPGREY
BITMAPGREY16
BITMAPCOLOR16
BITMAPCOLOR
BITMAPCOLOR16K
BITMAPCOLOR24K
BITMAPCOLOR32K
BITMAPFAMILY
BITMAPFAMILYSPECIAL
BOOTSCREENFAMILY

Bitmap resource

TRAP

HackMaster trap resource

FONT

User-defined font resource

FONTINDEX

Font Index table for font resource

HEX

Binary resource (hex/string based)

DATA

Binary resource (datafile based)

INTEGER
2-byte integer value
BYTELIST

1-byte integer value list

WORDLIST

2-byte integer value list

LONGWORDLIST

4-byte integer value list

PALETTETABLE

Color list resource

FEATURE

System reserved

GRAFFITIINPUTAREA

System reserved

COUNTRYLOCALISATION

System reserved

KEYBOARD

System reserved

MIDI

Copy .aif to a Palm midi resource

TRANSLATION

Language string translation resource

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