Re: Things I've learned about Constructor & bitmap families

[Peter Epstein]

The screen depth used for the launcher in PalmOS 3.5 is as follows:
On Palm IIIc: 8 bits deep
On all the grayscale devices: 1 bit deep

This is also the default used for third party applications that don't
explicitly set the screen depth. What all this means is that you won't
normally see 2 or 4 bit deep icons in the launcher. For example, a Palm V,
which is capable of displaying 16 shades of gray, will display the black and
white icon. However, if a third party launcher is used (such as Silver
Screen), these intermediate bit depth icons should be used. You really only
need 1 bit and 8 bit deep icons to work well with the standard launcher.
This isn't a bug in POSE: the real Palm V will use black and white icons
just as POSE will when emulating a Palm V.



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