"Chris Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:80212@palm-dev-forum... > > Hi, > > I'm moving some of our resources out of Constructor to allow us to > manage the international versions more easily and while the string > lists and the like exported fairly easily using DeRez I can't find > any way to export the bitmaps. > > I've searched the palm-dev-forum and the web but I get the feeling > that i'm just not using the correct keywords. I have trouble > believing that the rsrc format is so arcane and secret that > Constructor is the only tool that can open it. > > As for cut and paste, on Windows 2000 with Constructor 1.6 it just > doesn't work. What I'm reduced to is cutting them from the emulator > display of the running software. That's OK for a dozen or so but > I've got about two hundred bitmaps to copy. At a minute or two each > that's three to six hours of cut and paste.
Actually, yes. Take your PRC file, then use PRC2BIN (http://www.massena.com/darrin/pilot/tanda.htm) to convert it to a collection of BIN files, one per resource. Then use the netpbm package to convert the Palm OS bitmaps to Windows BMPs. (I don't have immediate knowledge of this last step -- I know conversion to Palm OS bitmap is supported, but I'm not sure about the other way around). Another idea that might work even better... write an application on Palm OS that opens your app as a resource database, goes through each of its bitmaps, draws them on the screen, then makes a HostControl call to get POSE to output it as a screenshot. The biggest problem here is sizing the bitmaps -- maybe a POSE extension would be in order to alter the screenshot size. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
