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Demonstrations (Cont.)

The Palm OS development environment provides a set of resource templates that application developers use to implement the buttons, dialogs, and other UI elements. The table below maps user interface elements to resources.

 UI Element and Functionality   Example   Resource(s) 
 Alert—Displays a warning, error, or confirmation message.


 Alert (Talt)
 Application icon—Icon to display in Launcher
 Application icon (tAIB)
 Application icon family (taif)

 Bitmap—Displays a bitmap.
 Form bitmap (tFBM)
 Bitmap (Tbmp)
 Bitmap family (tbmf)

 Command button—Executes command.
 Button (tBTN)
 Graphic button (tgbn)

 Check box—Toggle on or off
 Checkbox (tCBX)

 Form—Window that displays other UI objects


 
 Gadget—Custom control
 Gadget (tGDT)

 Shift Indicator—Displays shift status.
 Shift Indicator (tGSI)


 Label—Displays noneditable text.

 Label (tLBL)

 List—Displays a series of items.




 List (tLST)
 Menu—Executes commands.


 Menu Bar (MBAR)
 Menu (MENU)
 Pop-up list—Chooses a setting from a list.
 Pop-up trigger (tPUT)
 Pop-up list (tPUL)
 List (tLST)

 Push button—Selects a value.
 Push button (tPBN)
 Graphic push button (tgpb)

 Repeating button—Increment/decrement values or scroll
 Repeating button (tREP)
 Graphic repeating button (tgrb)

 Scroll bar—Scrolls fields or tables.


 Scroll bar (tSCL)
 Selector trigger—Invokes dialog that changes text of the control.


 Selector trigger (tSLT)
 Slider—Adjusts a setting.


 Slider (tsld)
 Feedback slider (tslf)
 Table—Displays columns of data.


 Table (tTBL)
 Text field—Displays text (single or multiple lines).


 Field (tFLD)