Programming for Palm OS/PilRC

PilRC (the PILot Resource Compiler) takes human-readable definitions of User Interface features (example) and turns them into a machine-readable form suitable for feeding to tools such as build-prc. installation installing PilRC on Debian sudo apt-get install pilrc usage PilRC reads a .rcp file and produces one or more .bin files. To find out what can be put into a .rcp file: mozilla file:///usr/share/doc/pilrc/html/manual.html#language Then invoke PilRC like this: pilrc -q YourProject.rcp ..and it will produce files named things like: NFNT03e8.bin MBAR03e8.bin tFRM03e8.bin ..which are fed to build-prc like this: build-prc $(PROJECT).prc "$(PROJECT)" $(CREATOR_ID) *.$(PROJECT).grc *.bin examples fonts In YourProject.h (so that resource IDs can be kept in sync between the source code and YourProject.rcp): #define TinyFont 1000 ..then in YourProject.rcp: #include "YourProject.h" FONT ID TinyFont FONTID 128 "6pt-sans-font.txt" 128 is fntAppCustomBase and should be in the range 128-255. 6pt-sans-font.txt refers to a file that describes the font. This file looks like this: ascent 5 descent 1 glyph 32 --- --- --- --- --- --- glyph 33 -#- -#- -#- --- -#- --- glyph -1 ---- ###- #-#- #-#- ###- ---- ..although your fonts should define more than only two glyphs. The following Ruby can be used to create a blank font file suitable for consumption by PilRC: #!/usr/bin/env ruby # ROWS = 7 COLUMNS = 6 puts 'ascent %i' % (ROWS - 1) puts 'descent 1' (32..127).each do |index| puts 'glyph %i' % index ROWS.times do puts '-' * COLUMNS end end