Looks like I had an old PalmRez. That was the main problem. Your answers were very
helpful as well.
Thanks,
Shannon
>d> 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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