Re:[pilot-db-list] Pilot DB

[Chalain Marc<mar...@vo...>]

> 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.

Interesting, i keep the idea.
 
> > !!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.
>

Impossible Overlay is only for PalmOS over 3.5.
 
> >  * 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.

I use already that. The problem is the size the color version is much larger than the others.

Salut,
Marc.

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