Re:[pilot-db-list] Pilot DB

[Tom D. <td...@us...>]

On Sunday 02 September 2001 06:20 am, Chalain Marc wrote:

> I don't see the different with Integer. You put the Currency in the Field
> Name. If you are a particular reason, please tell me.

There could be some options in the list view to change how fields are 
displayed. Currency then just becomes a "display option" set in the list view 
editor for a particular column. Not sure how it would be coded up though.

> !!Please i have a problem.
> There are more and more languages and the *.zip file is too large now. I
> should decide how to do the packages. I saw some solutions: * a package per
> language -> a lot of packages.

The way that PalmOS wants people to do multiple languages is to create 
"overlay" resource databases for particular languages. These are normal 
resource databases which PalmOS can automatically search for things like 
language strings. The user would install the normal PRC plus the overlay PRC 
for their language. (English would remain in the normal PRC.)

Read the PalmOS Reference or PalmOS Companion documentation for more 
information. There is a specific PalmOS type for overlay databases plus some 
ways to name then so the language is specified in the name and such for 
automatic selection.

>  * a package per type of version (icons+color, icons, color, black&white
> and text) * to reduce the number of versions (only color+icons and
> b&w+text) If you have some ideas, send me them.

You can combine the bitmaps for b&w, greyscale, and color into a single 
bitmap resource using the BITMAPFAMILY directive in PilRC. Then a single PRC 
for the icon version can be delivered. PalmOS figures out at runtime which 
bitmap to use in a particular family.