> 1) What is the relationship between the id specified in a form bitmap, the id
of a bitmap family,
> and the various ids of the individual bitmaps specified in the family? Which
do I put in the form bitmap?
> (I tried the bitmap family id,and that just crashed with a reference to NULL.
You should put the ID of the bitmap family in your form, as a bitmap. When the
bitmap family and the bitmaps it references go through PalmRez, they get merged
together into a single bitmap (tBMP or Tbmp whatever) with the ID of the bitmap
family.
> I then tried the individual
> bitmap numbers, but it appeared that the benefits of the bitmap family did not
occur.
I don't think the individual bitmap components went into the PRC file at all...
maybe you're using an older PalmRez that doesn't support bitmap families? That
would explain all your trouble...
> 3) Do you have to put the screen in any kind of special mode to draw color
bitmaps?
Nope... well... it _does_ need to be in color mode, but you said it was.
> 4) Is there any special naming convention needed?
Nope. Bitmap families replace all of that.
> 5) Is there a recommended way to put a bitmap on a form and have the
> form be backwards compatible all the way to OS 2.0?
I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure that bitmap families will be backwards
compatible, at least if you include a 1-bit version. Its the same old bitmap
format, its just that we never included multiple bitmap depths before (or maybe
its just that we always but the 1-bit one first).
Jesse
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