Thanks Chris, it's a start :)
Regards, Paul Johnson Applewood House www.applewoodhouse.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 1:33 AM Subject: Re: Starting up, sorta > From: "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I've been asked to do ports of several games and other multimedia apps > from > > that other PDA to OS5, and have a few basic questions. I'll look into the > > > Most of your questions look like Aaron's domain, but having had to > manage lots of graphic content I can answer > > > 3) Is there an easy way to load up all my sprites and pictures at run > > time rather than spending years putting it all into the resource editor ? > If > > the format is easy enough, I'm not against compiling my own resource files > > from custom data via a homegrown widget program of some sort. > > > As far as generating resource files goes, I've successfully used scripts > to create .rcp files that the CodeWarrior pilrc plug-in compiles. These > worked both from a database and as a script that iterated over a folder > full of Windows bitmaps. Significantly simplified our resource management. > > This gives you standard PalmOS resource files. I'm not sure if there's > an advantage to getting lower-level than that, except that images packed > together might speed up syncing of the app, but I think that the slow > syncing > of dbs with lot's of small records is much less significant than it used to > be. > > Chris Tutty > > > > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
