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Palm OS Cobalt Programming From the Ground Up, Second Edition - Softcover

Mykland, Robert; Keogh, James; Graham, Matthew

 
9780072222890: Palm OS Cobalt Programming From the Ground Up, Second Edition

Synopsis

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 CLIÉs, 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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About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

The Accelerated Track for Professional Programmers. Learn to develop powerful programs for Palm OS devices.

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 CLIÉs, 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.

  • Install and work with the Palm OS SDK and Developer Suite
  • Write modular, reusable code
  • Create full-color user interface objects such as menus, buttons, and triggers
  • Build event handlers
  • Set up and manage classic, extended, and schema databases
  • Create list objects, controls, and tables
  • Sort data into categories
  • Troubleshoot and optimize your applications

Robert Mykland has been a professional Palm OS developer since 1997. He is the author of several books, including Palm OS Programming from the Ground Up.

James Keogh teaches Java programming at Columbia University. He has spent decades developing applications for major corporations and is the author of more than 60 books, including Java Demystified, J2EE: The Complete Reference, and J2ME: The Complete Reference.

Matthew Graham is a Palm OS Certified Developer. He works in New York City developing Palm OS applications using C and C++.

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