I'm going to (try to) answer some of your questions out-of-order: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... > > So, let me backtrack a bit. If I were to get the Sony SCKs for the Clie, > can they be made to work with PRC-Tools?
Sony still hasn't fixed their header files to work with the gcc toolchain yet, so you'll need to make some changes to them first. John Marshall has some Perl scripts to help you out: http://www.falch.net/Articles/?art=294 > Even though the Clie N70-V has a screen resolution of 320 x 480 any > controls that I place (button, field, lists, etc) must be placed as > though it is in a 160x160 screen? Basically you have two questions: 1) how do you deal with Sony's high-resolution implementation 2) how do you deal with Sony's virtual silkscreen Despite monikers like "HiRes+" for the second case, the two are independent. First, let's suppose you're dealing with a Sony 320x320 device. In such a case, yes, you lay out everything according to a 160x160 grid. Unfortunately, this means you don't get high-resolution precision for widget positions for dimensions (but do you really need that much precision for a widget?). The system assumes everything's laid out to a single- density coordinate system, in high-resolution mode, so a 30x40 button will occupy 60x80 pixels on the screen. Now, on the NR70 devices, it's the same thing, except at run-time you can reposition objects to occupy the additional screen area. (BTW, you're still limited to a single-density coordinate system here, so you'll be repositioning objects relative to a 160x240 grid...) > how do I use a higher resolution > image (like the 30x40) without having the OS try to expand it, thinking > that it might have been drawn for a 160x160 device? Sony doesn't have any equivalent of OS5's high-density bitmap families, so all bitmaps drawn for you by the system are assumed to be single-density and become pixel-doubled. If you want to draw a bitmap in high-resolution, you have to do it manually by calling HRWinDrawBitmap or HRWinCopyRectangle. > But now on the 320 x 320 device, I want to use a higher resolution image > for the button. I was figuring that I'd specify it to be 30 x 40 with > upper left at 200, 200 so that it came out in the same relative point on > the screen but with a higher resoution image. Because the Sony systems won't draw bitmaps in high-resolution for you, you're kind of out of luck if you want a high-resolution graphical button. You either have to: A) using the old trick of overlapping a blank button and a bitmap B) use a gadget The problem with A is that you don't get to control how the button looks when it's selected. And the problem with B, of course, is that you'd have to recreate button behavior. Hope some of this made some sense... -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
