Palm OS Cobalt Programming From the Ground Up, Second Edition
2nd Edition
Published on 1. February 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-07-222289-0 (ISBN)
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 CLIAes, 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.
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
15 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 187 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-222289-0 (9780072222890)
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Previous edition
Robert Mykland
Palm OS Programming from the Ground Up: The Accelerated Track for Professional Programmers
Book
05/2000
McGraw-Hill Professional
€27.80
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Persons
Robert Mykland (Soquel, CA) has been working with hardware, applications design and programming for close to 15 years. His experience includes object oriented design, MS-Windows and UNIX applications, and web and internet applications among many others. His programming language toolkit includes C/C++, Pascal, Lisp, among a dozen or more. Recently, he has been programming on the Pilot/PalmIII and is familiar with all three major versions of PalmOS. As a Pilot/PalmIII developer, he created a graphical rapid application development environment for Computer Associate's Opal authoring tool.
Content
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