It's a four byte resource of type 'tint'. You can call ResLoadConstant, passing in a resource ID, to get the value back (though the code is trivial).I see a resource type called 'soft constant' in the constructor, but I cannot find any documentation anywhere on what exactly it is. I tried searching the constructor PDF that came with the 5.0 SDK but was unable to find anything. I even tried the word 'soft' and was unable to find anything.Anybody out there know what it is?
Soft constants are typically used to store application "constants" that a localizer would want to adjust, based on the locale. One example is when a specific kind of functionality (say word stemming) only makes sense for some locales - in that situation you might store a boolean value in a soft constant, which the app would then check at run-time.
The ResLoadConstant function, and the 'tint' resource type, are described on page 460 of the Palm OS Reference document (version 3003-003). But you're right that it doesn't use the term "soft constant" anywhere. Also, my copy of the Constructor documentation doesn't describe soft constants.Anyone know why it is not documented?
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