Palm OS Cobalt Programming From the Ground Up, 2/e (Paperback)

Description:

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.

 

Table 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