Slide 7.1: Palm OS Resource Editor
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Palm OS Resource Editor (Cont.)

Palm OS Resource Tools
Palm OS Resource Editor is designed to work with the family of Palm OS resource tools. All of the resource tools operate on XRD files.
An XRD file is an XML resource description file, which contains XML tags that represent the resources for an application.
The figure provides a graphical representation of how the Palm OS resource tools are used to create resources for a Palm OS application.
  • GenerateXRD converts existing Palm OS PRC files and Macintosh RSRC files into XRD files.

  • Palm OS Resource Editor creates and edits XRD files.

  • PalmRC compiles XRD files into TRC files. TRC is the file extension for the Debug support file associated with Power CTrace.

  • PRCMerge takes the compiled output from PalmRC and merges it with the code resources (BIN) to produce a Palm OS application (PRC).