> > 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).
Someone suggested compiling for different targets. What I did was
remove the color bitmap and use a BITMAP rather than BITMAPFAMILY,
then compiled. This produced the smaller code and was rather easy
to compile two different version. The code for color remained. It
is a good alternative.
Thanks
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