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Palm OS® Programmer's API Reference

About This Document

Palm OS SDK Documentation

What This Volume Contains

Additional Resources

       

Palm OS Programmer's API Reference is part of the Palm OS® Software Development Kit. This introduction provides an overview of SDK documentation, discusses what materials are included in this document, and what conventions are used.

Palm OS SDK Documentation

The following documents are part of the SDK:

Document
Description
Palm OS Programmer's API Reference
An API reference document that contains descriptions of all Palm OS function calls and important data structures.
Palm OS Programmer's Companion
A multi-volume guide to application programming for the Palm OS. This guide contains conceptual and "how-to" information that complements the Reference.
Constructor for Palm OS
A guide to using Constructor to create Palm OS resource files.
Palm OS Programming Development Tools Guide
A guide to writing and debugging Palm OS applications with the various tools available.

What This Volume Contains

This section provides an overview of this volume.

Part I, "User Interface," documents the API contained in the header files in the \Incs\Core\UI\ folder. This part contains chapters covering subjects such as application launch codes, user interface resources, events, and all window, form, and field object managers.

Part II, "System Management," documents the API contained in the header files in the \Incs\Core\System\ folder. This part contains chapters covering subjects such as the alarm manager, data and resource manager, feature manager, float manager, graffiti manager, key manager, memory manager, preferences manager, sound manager, string manager, and system manager.

Part III, "Communications," documents the API related to communications, such as the exchange manager, IR library, net library, serial manager, and serial drivers.

Part IV, "Libraries," documents the API contained in the header files in the \Incs\Libraries\ folder. This part contains chapters covering the Internet Library and the Palm OS Glue library.

Additional Resources

Documentation

Palm publishes its latest versions of this and other documents for Palm OS developers at

http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/docs/

Training

Palm and its partners host training classes for Palm OS developers. For topics and schedules, check

http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/classes/

Knowledge Base

The Knowledge Base is a fast, web-based database of technical information. Search for frequently asked questions (FAQs), sample code, white papers, and the development documentation at

http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/kb/