Alex Lane's Corner of Texas - PalmPilot Graphics, etc.

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Other PalmPilot Applications

Graphics

The PalmPilot can also be used in a limited way to view 4 level greyscale images that are up to 460 X 460 pixels in size. Among the applications available to display graphics on a PalmPilot are: Image Viewer (shareware), Spec (freeware), and Tiny Viewer (no registration required). Armed with one of these programs (I use Tiny Viewer), you can check out the following:

A subway map of the Moscow Metro (18KB). Station names are rendered in Cyrillic.

Another graphics application for the PalmPilot is TealPaint, which offers a multitude of features for painting, sketching, editing, managing, and animating images. Its operation is somewhat different, as are (apparently) the file formats. The program works with graphics that measure 160 x (at least) 144 pixels in size. These graphics, which can be maintained in multi-image databases, can be used in other TealPoint applications, notably TealInfo.

TealInfo

As of yet, this application is in a class by itself, and it's pretty nifty to boot. Quoting TealPoint's Web page: "TealInfo is like a reference library at your fingertips. It's a browser for TealInfo data 'Folios' which are made up of interactive lists, tables, images, checkboxes, outlines, and popup windows of information; perfect for catalogs, reference tables or simple applications." The description is pretty accurate, and TealPoint's Web site is a magnet for a growing library of new folios that run the gamut from useful to illustrative.

TealInfo Moscow Metro folio screen shot I've used TealInfo to develop a more comprehensive Moscow Metro guide (.zip, 121 KB). Metro stations are arranged by name alphabetically, in English, in a popup list at the top of the screen. Selecting a station will show, in the main window of this Folio, a portion of the Moscow Metro system with the selected station highlighted.

Tapping the "Cyrillic" button will bring up a popup window with the station's name in Cyrillic (you'll need a Palm Russifier program to view this properly). Tapping the "Transfers" button brings up a popup window with information about transfers to other lines, or whether a station is a line or terminal station.

NOTE: The application does not map out instructions for getting from point A to point B.

The TealPaint image database that comes with this folio is about 450 KB in size, which makes it a good candidate for inclusion in the "free" space on your unit's flash ROM (you'll need something like FlashBuilder to do that).

This application does not provide all of the functionality I'd like to see, but it's powerful enough to solve some simple, but pesky problems.