Palm Programming: The Developer's Guide - Table of Contents

Foreword
Foreword
Preface

The Palm Phenomenon
Who This Book Is For-C Programmers
What This Book Is About and How
to Read It
What's in a Name-Is It a Pilot
or a Palm?
Conventions Used in This Book
How to Contact Us
Versions of Things
What's on the CD?
Whom We Need to Thank

I. Palm-Why It Works and How to Program It
 1.  The Palm Solution

Why Palm Succeeded Where So
Many Failed
Designing Applications for Palm Devices
Elements in a Palm Application
Summary

 2.  Development Environments and Languages

Overview
Handheld Development
Alternative Development Environments
High-Level Forms Development
Conduit Development
Conclusion

 3.  Designing a Solution

User Interface Elements
in an Application
General Design of a Palm Application
How the Sample Applications Are Useful
User Interface of the Sales Application
Developing a Prototype
Design Tradeoffs in the Sample Application
Designing for a Small Screen
Designing the Databases
Designing the Conduit
Design Summary

II. Designing Palm Applications
 4.  Structure of an Application

Terminology
A Simple Application
Scenarios
Memory Is Extremely Limited
Other Times Your Application Is Called
Summary

 5.  Forms and Form Objects

Resources
Forms
Form Objects
Resources, Forms, and Form Objects
in the Sales Application

 6.  Databases

Overview of Databases and Records
Creating, Opening, and Closing Databases
Working with Records
Examining Databases in the Sales Sample

 7.  Menus

Menu User Interface
Menu Resources
Application Code for Menus
Adding Menus to the Sample Application

 8.  Extras

Tables
Tables in the Sample Application
Find
Beaming
Barcodes

 9.  Communications

Serial
TCP/IP

 10.  Debugging Palm Applications

Using POSE
Device Reset
Graffiti Shortcut Characters
Source-Level Debugging with CodeWarrior
Source-Level Debugging with GNU PalmPilot SDK
Using Simulator on Mac OS
Gremlins

III. Designing Conduits
 11.  Getting Started with Conduits

Overview of Conduits
Registering and Unregistering a Conduit
Conduit Entry Points
The HotSync Log
When the HotSync Button Gets Pressed
Using the Backup Conduit
Creating a Minimal Sales Conduit

 12.  Uploading and Downloading Data with a Conduit

Conduit Requirements
Where to Store Data
Creating, Opening, and Closing Databases
Downloading to the Handheld
Uploading to the Desktop
When the HotSync Button Gets Pressed
Portability Issues
The Sales Conduit

 13.  Two-Way Syncing

The Logic of Syncing
The Conduit Classes
Sales Conduit Sample Based
on the Classes
Generic Conduit
Sales Conduit Based on Generic Conduit

 14.  Debugging Conduits

HotSync Flags
Source-Level Debugging
Avoiding Timeouts While Debugging
Conduit Problems You Might Have
Test with POSE
Turn Off Other Conduits During Testing
Use the Log, Luke

Appendix: Where to Go From Here

Palm Programming Book Web Site
The Official Palm Developer Site
Palm Programming Mailing Lists
Third-Party Palm Programming Resources
Third-Party Palm Programming FAQ
RoadCoders, Handheld Developers
PalmCentral
Journals and Magazines