Hi Danny, thanks for the reply. The app I wrote and maintain is for internal company use only. We run it on our own hardware (Symbol 1740 units) with our own Palm 3.5 ROM burned into the Symbol units. So I am in a very controlled environment. However, I still don't like the idea of expecting the data structures to be consistent. So I probably won't pursue that angle.
Here is what I'm trying to do: Our users need to run a couple different apps in the course of their job when using our device and our apps. The default "icon" view in the app launcher forces them to scroll down the list to find apps. Sometimes this causes them problems (you know how end-users can be). I would like to make the default view on our units the "list" view because that allows all the apps to be visible on the screen at once - no scrolling required. I could probably do this by making this change and burning a new ROM, but we recently burned the ROM into all our units and this minor change does not warrant the work required to burn them all again. So I thought maybe one of our apps that we sync into the unit very frequently could have the functionality added to change the view for them. It was just an idea based on a suggestion from one of the users. I started looking at how I might accomplish this and could not find any reference to the app launcher preferences in the Palm docs or example code. If you have any idea please pass them on. Thanks again. "Danny Epstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:67888@palm-dev-forum... > > > In the Application Launcher screen you can set the preference whether you > > want the apps to be displayed in LIST or ICON mode. Does anyone know how > I > > can set this setting from within my own application? > > There is no public API to do this. The same is true for recategorizing apps > and editing Launcher's categories. Launcher stores data in databases and/or > preferences that are subject to change. If you decide to reverse engineer > Launcher's data formats, which I don't recommend, be sure you don't touch > the data unless you know it'll be compatible. The Launcher can change with > OS version and with model. For example, Sony's Launcher is jog-dial-aware, > so it may use different data formats. > > Why do you want to do this? > -- > Danny @ Palm > > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
