Digging into the Prefs app on the Tungsten T
Palm customized the preferences application for the Tungsten T device to work better with their 5-way navigation disc. In doing this, they divided the prefs into four categories.
A few weeks back, I dug into the resources on the TT to figure out how you can make your own pref panels group somewhere other than the "Other" category.
All of the prefs shipped on the TT have a special 'taic' 1100 resource. This resource holds a single string that is used by the prefs app to assign the panel to a category:
- "Settings" maps to General
- "Personalize" maps to Personal
- "Communication" maps to Communication
It looks like Palm originally named the categories differently, and then changed it later but didn't want to alter their already built pref panels.
Setting up this resource can be done using either Rez or PilRC. The PilRC syntax is simple:
LAUNCHERCATEGORY ID 1100 "Settings"
The syntax in Rez is similar:
resource 'taic' (1100) { "Settings" }
Your panels are called by the Prefs app differently on the TT than on other devices. Rather than being launched normally, they get launched with the sysAppLaunchCmdPanelCalledFromApp launch code, and you need to put up your own "Done" button. You can look at the "Formats" example from the 4.0 SDK to see how this is done; for some odd reason, this sample wasn't included in the 5.0 SDK, so its not on the V9 CD, but the older SDKs and examples can still be downloaded from PalmSource.com.
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