Michael Verive, MD is a former scientist, currently practicing as a Pediatric Critical Care physician. He's programmed computers of every shape and size since the 70's, in 24 programming languages.. He finds the Palm devices to be indispensable in medicine as well as routine daily life, and decided to master their programming, recycling thousands of lines of code from prior projects.
Author(s): Michael J. Verive
Edition: 3rd
Publisher: Eastwood Group
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 324
Tags: nsbasic,palmos,palm
Chapter I - Introduction 9
Why Basic? 10
Installing NS Basic 11
Chapter II - What I meant to say was 13
Abbreviations, terms, and mnemonics 13
Conventions used in this book 16
Chapter III - Important Concepts 19
Palm OS and NS Basic-specific programming 19
Object-Oriented vs Top-Down Programming 21
Structured Programming 22
The Palm OS is "Event-driven" 24
Prototyping - know your audience! 24
Debugging/alpha/beta testing 25
When it's time to scrap it and start over 25
Chapter IV - Your first project - "Hello, World!" 27
Chapter V - Constants, Literals, Variables and Arrays 31
Constants and Literals 31
Variables 32
Arrays 36
Chapter VI - Programming Elements 39
Statements 39
Comments 40
Subroutines and Code Modules 41
Functions 44
Controlling program flow 45
Running external applications 60
Ending your NS Basic application 63
Chapter VII - Projects and Forms 65
The NS Basic Project 66
Forms 67
Chapter VIII - Screen Graphics 75
Graphics Windows 75
Drawing Graphics 79
Chapter IX - NS Basic Objects 93
Bitmap 93
Button 95
CheckBox 97
Field 101
Gadget 105
Grid 110
Label 116
List 118
PopUp 126
PushButton 133
Repeater 136
ScrollBar 138
Selector 140
Slider 143
Shift Indicator 145
Chapter X - Numeric functions 147
Standard Mathematical Functions 147
Exponents, Powers and Logs 158
Chapter XI - String Handling 163
Conversions 163
Concatenation, Extraction and Truncation 168
Searching Strings - using InStr 176
Chapter XII - Date and Time functions 179
Date Functions 180
Time Functions 187
Chapter XIII - Database Management 195
Creating Databases 197
Opening Databases 200
Closing and Erasing Databases 201
Data Access - a Parting of the Ways 203
Safely mixing keyed and non-keyed methods 222
Writing to MemoPad 226
Chapter XIV - Menus 231
Creating Menus 232
Chapter XV - Interacting with your user 237
Interacting Visually - Message and Alert Boxes 237
Interacting Audibly - Beep, Sound and PlaySound 241
Trapping user actions 244
Chapter XVI - Serial Input/Output (I/O) 249
Chapter XVII - Extending NS Basic 261
Accessing the Palm OS API 261
Shared Libraries 265
Chapter XVIII - Special Topics 271
Control Arrays 271
Printing in NS Basic 272
String parsing 277
Data Encryption 279
Sorting Data 281
Running HotSync from NS Basic 283
Soundex 284
Staying Alive 284
Saving State 285
System Info 285
SysInfoSet 286
Real Estate - location, location, location! 287
Optimizing applications for speed 287
AppendixA PalmOSsort(stringcomparison)order 293
AppendixB PalmOSFonts 295
Appendix C Accessory Programs 301
Appendix D Running POSE 309
Index 317
