Hi,
Colour support was introduced with the PalmOS 3.5 and the IIIc handheld. Using
grayscale as a backgropund for a font is IMHO a very bad idea, beause the
screens of most monochrome handhelds(have you ever actually used/seen one??) do
not have the neccecary contrast strength to accomodate for this!
Two adjacent gray scales are very difficult to tell apart on a Palm V, trust
me! Just release the program without the highlighting features on grayscale
pilots...
Have fun
Tam Hanna
http://tamspalm.blogspot.com
Roger stringer wrote:
Subject: Changing fore/back color prior to 3.5
From: "Mihail Ivanchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 13:01:45 -0000
As i'm getting deeper into the window manager i found that
WinSetForeColor/WinSetBackColor are not available on PalmOS versions prior
to 3.5 My question is how to set the back and fore color on devices
running PalmOS < 3.5 ? I know that on such devices only grayscale modes
are supported but still, i can't find any API in the documentation.
So don't do it! While some pre-OS 3.5 devices had more than just simple
monochrome, API support was virtually non-existent. But given the small
market nowadays for software for pre-OS 3.5 devices, it really doesn't
seem worthwhile to spend time on grayscale support on, say, Handspring
Visors running OS 3.1. In addition, I can't actually think of a pre-OS
3.5 color device anyway. Roger Stringer Marietta Systems, Inc.
(www.rf-tp.com)
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