> I was wondering, Color Bitmaps add considerable size to my
> applications. What was a 70k+ app is now 130K+. I checked the
> resources and one of my bitmaps is 40K. I assume that is because of the
> color bitmap.
>
> I have had one black and white palm user say that he does not want to be
> burdened with that extra RAM usage when his device is not color. But it
> is quite difficult to keep two programs in sync, by maintaining two
> versions.
this is a known problem.. the best solution? use compression or
supply two different versions. i use compression on my color bitmaps
(and the other ones) and with the compression so far, the application
has increased by a small amount (< 20k).
> What I was wondering, is, is there a way that programmatically one can
> determine that an app is on a black & white device and delete the color
> bitmap part of the bitmap? The BITMAPFAMILY seems to be one resource
> but it would be nice, if that color stuff could be somehow deleted, if
> not needed.
this would probably not be a good idea. someone beams the application
to a color device - you have hence removed the color "bitmaps" and
hence the color device now has a b+w interface..
az.
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