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Multimedia

Exploring Palm OS®

This book describes the portions of Palm OS® that provide multimedia capabilities. This includes the Sound Manager and the Multimedia Library.


IMPORTANT: The Exploring Palm OS series is intended for developers creating native applications for Palm OS Cobalt. If you are interested in developing applications that work through PACE and that also run on earlier Palm OS releases, read the latest versions of the Palm OS Programmer's API Reference and Palm OS Programmer's Companion instead.

Who Should Read This Book ^TOP^

You should read this book if you are a Palm OS software developer and you want to do one of the following:

  • Play simple, monophonic sounds such as beeps or alerts in an application.
  • Play or record stereo, sampled sounds in an application.
  • Write an application that plays or records audio-visual media.

Beginning Palm OS developers may want to delay reading this book until they gain a better understanding of the fundamentals of Palm OS application development. Instead, consider reading Exploring Palm OS: Programming Basics to gain a good understanding of event management and Exploring Palm OS: User Interface to learn about events generated by standard UI controls. Come back to this book when you find you need to use the sound and multimedia services.

What This Book Contains ^TOP^

This book contains the following information:

Changes to This Book ^TOP^

3112-002

  • Minor bug fixes.

3112-001

  • Initial version.

The Exploring Palm OS Series ^TOP^

This book is a part of the Exploring Palm OS series. Together, the books in this series document and explain how to use the APIs exposed to third-party developers by the fully ARM-native versions of Palm OS, beginning with Palm OS Cobalt. Each of the books in the Exploring Palm OS series explains one aspect of the Palm operating system and contains both conceptual and reference documentation for the pertinent technology.

As of this writing, the complete Exploring Palm OS series consists of the following titles:

  • Exploring Palm OS: Programming Basics
  • Exploring Palm OS: Memory, Databases, and Files
  • Exploring Palm OS: User Interface
  • Exploring Palm OS: User Interface Guidelines (coming soon)
  • Exploring Palm OS: System Management
  • Exploring Palm OS: Text and Localization
  • Exploring Palm OS: Input Services
  • Exploring Palm OS: High-Level Communications
  • Exploring Palm OS: Low-Level Communications
  • Exploring Palm OS: Telephony and SMS
  • Exploring Palm OS: Multimedia
  • Exploring Palm OS: Security and Cryptography
  • Exploring Palm OS: Creating a FEP (coming soon)
  • Exploring Palm OS: Application Porting Guide

Additional Resources ^TOP^