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| Preface | |
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| Overview of the Palm OS | |
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| The Palm Solution | |
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| How Palm Succeeded | |
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| Elements in the Magic Formula | |
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| Easy to Carry | |
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| Inexpensive | |
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| Expandable | |
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| Effortlessly Connects to a Desktop Computer | |
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| Works Great and Is Simple to Use | |
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| Designing Applications for Palm Devices | |
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| Technical Overview and Development Environments | |
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| Palm OS Overview | |
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| Conduit Overview | |
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| Handheld Development Environments | |
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| Alternative Development Environments | |
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| High-Level Forms Development | |
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| Handheld Development Recommendations | |
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| Conduit Development | |
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| Designing a Solution | |
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| User Interface Elements in the Palm OS | |
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| Designing with a Particular User in Mind | |
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| The Well-Designed Form | |
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| Other Design Issues | |
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| How the Sample Applications Are Useful | |
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| User Interface of the Sales Application | |
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| Designing the Sales Application | |
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| Designing the Conduit | |
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| Design Summary | |
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| Programming a Palm Application | |
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| Tutorial | |
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| POSE | |
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| Code Warrior | |
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| PRC-Tools | |
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| Installing OReilly Sample project | |
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| Installing a PRC on the Handheld | |
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| Installing PRC on POSE | |
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| Modifying the Sample Application | |
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| Structure of an Application | |
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| Terminology | |
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| Palm OS Conventions | |
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| The Palm OS and an Application | |
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| A Simple Application--OReilly Starter | |
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| Other Times Your Application Is Called | |
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| Examples | |
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| What to Remember | |
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| Memory Manager | |
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| Types of Memory | |
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| Dynamic Memory Allocation | |
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| Stack Space | |
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| Handling Large Amounts of Data | |
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| Owner IDs | |
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| Cards and Local IDs | |
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| Using Memory Effectively | |
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| Memory TestAPIs Example | |
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| What to Remember | |
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| Debugging Palm Applications | |
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| POSE | |
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| Graffiti Debugging Shortcuts | |
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| Source-Level Debugging | |
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| Gremlins | |
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| Error Manager | |
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| Palm OS Sources | |
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| Low-Level Debugging with PalmDebugger | |
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| Device Reset | |
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| Using Simulator on Mac OS | |
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| Release/Debug Targets | |
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| Resources and Forms | |
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| Resources | |
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| Form Characteristics | |
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| Form Events | |
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| Form-Level APIs | |
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| Modeless Forms | |
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| Alerts | |
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| Modal Dialog Boxes | |
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| Forms in the Sales Application | |
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| Form Objects | |
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| Form Object Characteristics | |
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| Form Object Events | |
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| Form Object APIs | |
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| Types of Form Objects | |
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| Sales Application Forms and Form Objects | |
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| Databases | |
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| Overview of Databases and Records | |
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| Opening, Creating, and Closing Databases | |
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| Working with Records | |
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| Examining Databases in the Sales Sample | |
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| Summary | |
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| Menus | |
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| Menu User Interface | |
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| Menu Resources | |
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| Application Code for Menus | |
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| Adding Menus to the Sample Application | |
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| Summary | |
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| Extras | |
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| Find | |
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| Exchange | |
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| Communications | |
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| Serial Communications | |
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| TCP/IP Communications | |
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| Designing Conduits | |
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| Getting Started with Conduits | |
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| Overview of Conduits | |
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| Using the Backup Conduit | |
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| Registering and Unregistering | |
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| Using Desktop APIs | |
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| Conduit Entry Points | |
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| The HotSync Log | |
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| When the HotSync Button Is Pressed | |
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| Using Conduit Inspector to Verify Your Conduit | |
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| Syncing from POSE | |
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| Creating a Minimal Sales Conduit | |
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| Moving Data to and from the Handheld with a Conduit | |
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| Conduit Requirements | |
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| Where to Store Data | |
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| Creating, Opening, and Closing Databases | |
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| Moving Data to the Handheld | |
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| Moving Data to the Desktop | |
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| Keeping the HotSync Progress Dialog Box Alive | |
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| When the HotSync Button Is Pressed | |
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| Portability Issues | |
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| The Sales Conduit | |
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| Two-Way Syncing | |
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| The Logic of Syncing | |
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| MFC Conduit Framework | |
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| Generic Conduit Framework | |
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| Generic Conduit Classes | |
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| Using the Wizard to Create a Minimal Generic Conduit | |
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| Custom File Formats | |
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| Handling Categories | |
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| Sales Conduit Based on Generic Conduit | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Where to Go from Here | |
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| Sales Source Code | |
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| PilRC Manual | |
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| Index | |