16-bit Colour Prism/Future PalmOS

2008-05-28 Thread Francis
I've got a few questions about the 16 bit colour on the prism, and the future of PalmOS. Perhaps someone knows the answers? - On the new visor prism devices, what is the gain of using a Direct Colour bitmap? Is the only feature of using a direct colour bitmap the ability to specify a transparent

Re: Colour bitmap in Alert

2008-05-28 Thread Richard M. Hartman
Tom Zerucha wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]... ... Since I am doing imaging I do use 4 bit. So do most other imaging programs that run on something other than the IIIc. Really? Most serious imaging apps I know of take 8bpp (palette of 256 colors) as their LOW end. 4bpp is a palette of

Re: Colour bitmap in Alert

2008-05-28 Thread John Cundall
-bit ? Because no device has a 4-bit display ? 2) What Palm device has a 2-bit display ? John. Richard Burmeister wrote: From: John Cundall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Colour bitmap in Alert my question is, what do I have to do to get a colour bitmap to draw in colour *in a dialog

Colour bitmap in Alert

2008-05-28 Thread John Cundall
Hi, Should a colour bitmap in an alert draw in colour on a colour device ? I perhaps naively assumed I could create a Form in CodeWarrior's Constructor (1.5b1), pop in a 256-colour bit map and just use FrmDoDialog() to show the form as an alert (having checked the screen mode of course) - when I

PalmOS 3.5 8-bit Colour Palette

2008-05-28 Thread Bob Whiteman
The PalmOS Programmer's Companion indicates that the named HTML colour gray (0x808080) is a member of the PalmOS palette. I checked on a device, and the emulator, and this colour is not present. However, the Programmer's Companion writes that only the first 231 entries in the palette and the last

Re: Printing CW source code in colour

2006-06-10 Thread Ben Combee
On 6/9/06, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a really great plugin for VB for printing my source code from Visual Studio. http://www.starprint2000.com/vbprint_features.html Is there anything similiar for CodeWarrior? I would like to be able to print my code in colour to match the way I

Printing CW source code in colour

2006-06-09 Thread Greg
I have a really great plugin for VB for printing my source code from Visual Studio. http://www.starprint2000.com/vbprint_features.html Is there anything similiar for CodeWarrior? I would like to be able to print my code in colour to match the way I have CW setup. I find it makes the code

greyscale in rgb565 colour format

2006-04-25 Thread becksticles
but this is not the case. Do i need to change the screen density to 4bpp??? I actually need to convert colour images captured from the onboard pda camera to greyscale for processing. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Cheers. -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe

RE: greyscale in rgb565 colour format

2006-04-25 Thread Navin Dabhi
Hi, I think value is 153, 153, 153 for gray color. Thanks, Navin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 6:18 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: greyscale in rgb565 colour format Hello, From

Re: greyscale in rgb565 colour format

2006-04-25 Thread Michal Seliga
produces white, but am unable to get any other combination that produces grey as i thought it had to be (n,n,n) ie 31,31,31 to do so but this is not the case. Do i need to change the screen density to 4bpp??? I actually need to convert colour images captured from the onboard pda camera

Button Control text colour

2005-11-02 Thread Trevor MacPhail
Is there a way to set the text colour of button controls overriding the current colour theme? I tried to set the text colour using WinSetTextColor and then calling CtlDrawControl but I still ended up with the regular text colour in the button. -- Trevor MacPhail -- For information on using

Insertion point - changing its colour?

2004-01-29 Thread fangorn68
I've used the various Insertion point functions InsPtSetLocation InsPtEnable etc and they work great to move the Insertion point about but is it possible to change its colour? When displayed on a black screen it disappears, I thought it would have XORed with the screen but it doesn't. I'm

Re: Insertion point - changing its colour?

2004-01-29 Thread Laurens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I've used the various Insertion point functions InsPtSetLocation InsPtEnable etc and they work great to move the Insertion point about but is it possible to change its colour? When displayed on a black screen it disappears, I thought

Re: Insertion point - changing its colour?

2004-01-29 Thread Fangorn
This might work (not tested). RGBColorType rgb; rgb.r = 0; rgb.g = 0; rgb.b = 255; UIColorSetTableEntry(UIFieldCaret, rgb); This should make the caret blue. Regards -Laurens Wonderful, thanks! That did the job. Fangorn -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe,

Fw: 4 Bit Grey? or 4 bit colour? Zire 21/Tungsten T3

2004-01-28 Thread Antonio Argentieri
: 4 Bit Grey? or 4 bit colour? Zire 21/Tungsten T3 Hi All, Quick question one of you may be able to help me with... I've just been trying to differentiate between a screen that support 16 shades of grey(Zire21) as opposed to something that supports 16 colours. (T3 in this case). I've been

4 Bit Grey? or 4 bit colour? Zire 21/Tungsten T3

2004-01-24 Thread Antonio Argentieri
winScreenModeGetDefaults to get the colour enabled value. Unfortunately using this function both emulators indicate that they support colour. Does anyone know if this is a fault with the zire21 emulator?, a fault with my method? or is any machine that supports 2 bit screendepths classed as 'colour' for OS compatibility

Re: Changing the colour of the title of a form.

2003-08-11 Thread Alan Ingleby
Alan Ingleby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Form Titles are always blue... I want a different colour for the form title on certain forms in my app. can this be done, or is it a roll-your own affair? I'd also prefer if the solution would be OS3.5 compatible... Spoke

Changing the colour of the title of a form.

2003-08-05 Thread Alan Ingleby
Form Titles are always blue... I want a different colour for the form title on certain forms in my app. can this be done, or is it a roll-your own affair? I'd also prefer if the solution would be OS3.5 compatible... Alan -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums

Colour

2003-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi. I've decided my app is gonna have to use 256 colour images and there will be quite a few of them blitted about, some of which using operations not available through the OS so I need to make my own blitting routines. I have a few questions if I may. 1)Is there a way to force a device

Re: Colour

2003-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
Thanks Scott - this has given me a good start. When you say a system alert will be mapped to my colours, do you mean mapped as in it picks the best colour from my palette that it should be in, or it simply uses a palette entry that it expects to be grey but is in fact now bright pink iyswim

RGB Value of Standard Palm Blue (menu bar colour) ?

2002-11-08 Thread Richard . Anderson
Hi, Does anyone know the RGB values for the blue used in the menu bars etc on the m515 ??? Thanks, Richard Anderson Software Engineer Radiodetection - An SPX company -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

12-bit colour

2002-09-18 Thread Idries Hamadi
Hi all, I remember a thread about 12-bit colour on the Treo. I've had a look through the archives but there only seem to be questions there, not answers. Has anyone worked with this now? The reason that I ask is that I'm working on a similar thing (non-Palm) and I need to generate/convert art

Setting background colour for a pressed push button.

2001-12-11 Thread Michael Glickman
Hello How to set a background colour for a pressed (value 0) push button in 3.5+ ? Tried UIColorSetTableEntry(UIObjectSelectedFill, rgb); doesn't seem to produce the desired effect. Cheers, M- -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

RE: Back to launcher colour scheme in dbg and prod ROMs.

2001-12-07 Thread Peter Epstein
You can use applications such as Chrome to change the UI colors. This can be useful for debugging. Also note that the Mac simulator also uses debug colors, just like the debug ROMs. -- Peter Epstein -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Back to launcher colour scheme in dbg and prod ROMs.

2001-12-06 Thread Michael Glickman
This is the third question posted this morning. I was unlucky with previous two, hopefully I am going to get an asnwer this time. A launcher colour scheme is different for dbg and non-dbg ROMs. As it was mentioned, it might be a hint that we can't rely on standard launcher colour scheme

Re: Back to launcher colour scheme in dbg and prod ROMs.

2001-12-06 Thread Ben Combee
Michael Glickman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:70460@palm-dev-forum... This is the third question posted this morning. I was unlucky with previous two, hopefully I am going to get an asnwer this time. A launcher colour scheme is different for dbg and non-dbg ROMs

RE: Back to launcher colour scheme in dbg and prod ROMs.

2001-12-06 Thread Michael Glickman
-Original Message- From: Ben Combee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 7 December 2001 3:08 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Back to launcher colour scheme in dbg and prod ROMs. Modifying the color tables is done through the UIColorGetTableEntryIndex

Re: Back to launcher colour scheme in dbg and prod ROMs.

2001-12-06 Thread Ben Combee
-Original Message- From: Ben Combee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 7 December 2001 3:08 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Back to launcher colour scheme in dbg and prod ROMs. Modifying the color tables is done through the UIColorGetTableEntryIndex

RE: Back to launcher colour scheme in dbg and prod ROMs.

2001-12-06 Thread Michael Glickman
-Original Message- From: Ben Combee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 7 December 2001 3:51 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Back to launcher colour scheme in dbg and prod ROMs. -Original Message- From: Ben Combee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 7

displaying a colour bitmap on the Palm ..

2001-10-30 Thread Stringer
Subject: displaying a colour bitmap on the Palm .. From: Essell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:19:43 -0800 X-Message-Number: 15 Hi guys .. I have an application in which I have to display colour bitmaps. I'm using Codewarrior .. I manage to do this using a Bitmap Family

RE: displaying a colour bitmap on the Palm ..

2001-10-30 Thread Stringer
Subject: displaying a colour bitmap on the Palm .. From: Essell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:19:43 -0800 I have an application in which I have to display colour bitmaps. I'm using Codewarrior .. I manage to do this using a Bitmap Family. The problem is ... (ignore my

displaying a colour bitmap on the Palm ..

2001-10-29 Thread Essell
Hi guys .. I have an application in which I have to display colour bitmaps. I'm using Codewarrior .. I manage to do this using a Bitmap Family. The problem is that Bitmap Family is not supported on OS versions prior to Palm OS 3.5 so if I run this application on any older OS version

Re: displaying a colour bitmap on the Palm ..

2001-10-29 Thread Ben Combee
Essell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:66227@palm-dev-forum... Hi guys .. I have an application in which I have to display colour bitmaps. I'm using Codewarrior .. I manage to do this using a Bitmap Family. The problem is that Bitmap Family is not supported on OS versions prior

RE: Colour support

2001-01-17 Thread Heather KML Tufts
If I want to write a program on PalmOS 3.5 which can support all couour scheme, i.e B/W, 4 gray level, and 256 colours, what should I do? Is there any special code I should write to handle it? Use Bitmap Families (http://oasis.palm.com/dev/kb/faq/1817.cfm is for creating App Icon

RE: Colour support

2001-01-17 Thread esanborn
look at the color deal sample cod ein the knowledge base to handle setting text color, background color, etc. -Ezekiel -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Colour support

2001-01-16 Thread Oscar Lee
Dear All, If I want to write a program on PalmOS 3.5 which can support all couour scheme, i.e B/W, 4 gray level, and 256 colours, what should I do? Is there any special code I should write to handle it? Oscar -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Speeding up the redraw on a Colour display.

2001-01-02 Thread Darren Lee Ang
have the same perceived slowness on the Prism? I have not tried it yet on the colour Palm. Does it have the same problems? Thanks. -- Darren Lee Ang -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

16-bit Colour Prism/Future PalmOS

2000-10-24 Thread Francis
I've got a few questions about the 16 bit colour on the prism, and the future of PalmOS. Perhaps someone knows the answers? - On the new visor prism devices, what is the gain of using a Direct Colour bitmap? Is the only feature of using a direct colour bitmap the ability to specify a transparent

Re: Colour bitmap in Alert

2000-09-26 Thread Charles Rezsonya
? if so, how can this be done compatibly? with minimul changes? -Original Message- From: Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, September 25, 2000 9:26 AM Subject: Re: Colour bitmap in Alert oh so if the os takes care of the screen mode

Re: Colour bitmap in Alert

2000-09-26 Thread Aaron Ardiri
ok, well, i wrote an app for a IIIc with bitmap buttons, and gave the button a bitmap family. but for some reason running it on a spt 1740 the button appears, but with ascii type symbols. i'm using cw6. could this be because the structs aren't the same in the differant os's for the

Re: Colour bitmap in Alert

2000-09-26 Thread Tom Zerucha
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 05:28:33PM -0700, Richard M. Hartman wrote: Tom Zerucha wrote in message 25316@palm-dev-forum... ... Since I am doing imaging I do use 4 bit. So do most other imaging programs that run on something other than the IIIc. Really? Most serious imaging apps I

Re: Colour bitmap in Alert

2000-09-25 Thread Charles Rezsonya
: Colour bitmap in Alert From: "John Cundall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Colour bitmap in Alert my question is, what do I have to do to get a colour bitmap to draw in colour *in a dialog* ? That shouldn't cause any problems. Are you using a Bitmap Family for the bitmap? If so, you

Re: Colour bitmap in Alert

2000-09-25 Thread Aaron Ardiri
oh so if the os takes care of the screen mode then os3.5 apps with bitmap families won't work properly on a 3.1 device, eh? bitmap families work way back :) just be careful of the bitmap version bitmap families generated with pilrc will work back to palmos 1.0 - it will only show 1bpp

Re: Colour bitmap in Alert

2000-09-25 Thread David Fedor
So, two supplemental questions: 1) why does the PalmOS sample code use 1/2/8-bit icon/bitmaps but not 4-bit ? Because no device has a 4-bit display ? Well, nothing really uses 4-bit right now, though the Palm IIIc devices can certainly run in that mode if an app switches it to them. And if

Re: Colour bitmap in Alert

2000-09-25 Thread Tom Zerucha
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 10:21:37AM -0700, David Fedor wrote: So, two supplemental questions: 1) why does the PalmOS sample code use 1/2/8-bit icon/bitmaps but not 4-bit ? Because no device has a 4-bit display ? Well, nothing really uses 4-bit right now, though the Palm IIIc devices can

Re: Colour bitmap in Alert

2000-09-25 Thread Richard M. Hartman
Tom Zerucha wrote in message 25316@palm-dev-forum... ... Since I am doing imaging I do use 4 bit. So do most other imaging programs that run on something other than the IIIc. Really? Most serious imaging apps I know of take 8bpp (palette of 256 colors) as their LOW end. 4bpp is a palette

bitmap colour fam's

2000-09-18 Thread Charles Rezsonya
recently i aquired a IIIc and am now playing around with the colour stuff. i managed to figure out how to get colour buttons on the app running, so i tried creating a 1bpp bmp for the app and see if it ran it on a symbol spt (which uses 1bpp). but when the app is ran the button has a wierd

Re: PalmOS 3.5 8-bit Colour Palette

2000-09-14 Thread Tom Zerucha
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 06:03:08PM -0700, Bill Janssen wrote: Tom Zerucha wrote: IT isn't quite that consistent. First you have the 6x6x6 color cube, except the black isn't quite (I think it is 0x10 instead of 0). You do have 0x0 blacks, but I think the 255th entry is "transparent" black

Re: PalmOS 3.5 8-bit Colour Palette

2000-09-13 Thread Bill Janssen
Tom Zerucha wrote: IT isn't quite that consistent. First you have the 6x6x6 color cube, except the black isn't quite (I think it is 0x10 instead of 0). You do have 0x0 blacks, but I think the 255th entry is "transparent" black which should be used if you want a transparent color. There are

PalmOS 3.5 8-bit Colour Palette

2000-09-12 Thread Bob Whiteman
The PalmOS Programmer's Companion indicates that the named HTML colour gray (0x808080) is a member of the PalmOS palette. I checked on a device, and the emulator, and this colour is not present. However, the Programmer's Companion writes that only the first 231 entries in the palette

Re: PalmOS 3.5 8-bit Colour Palette

2000-09-12 Thread Tom Zerucha
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 03:35:35PM -0700, Bob Whiteman wrote: The PalmOS Programmer's Companion indicates that the named HTML colour gray (0x808080) is a member of the PalmOS palette. I checked on a device, and the emulator, and this colour is not present. This is probably a misprint