TouchTris - Skin development

Basic rules

TouchTris skin is the PalmOS resource database with creator='ToT2' and type='SKIN'. The bitmaps in the skin database will replace the standard bitmaps once the skin is chosen in the skin selector window. You don't have to provide the full set of bitmaps - the standard bitmap will be used if one is not found in the skin.

Special resources

tSTR 1000 - Skin description (will be displayed in the skin selector window)
uses 1 - The name of the parent skin (supported since v1.2). While creating a custom hires skin you can specify "TouchTris Hires Skin" in the "uses" resource and all bitmaps not present in your skin will be loaded from the standard Hires Skin. Without the "uses" resource the application will only use your resources and most of the bitmaps will be in low resolution.

How to create the custom skin

On the palm:
You can start with one of the standard skins - duplicate the database, change the tSTR 1000 and edit some bitmaps. RsrcEdit is one of Palm applications that can be used for this purpose.
On the desktop computer:
You need some tools for creating PalmOS resource files, for example PilRC + prc-tools or equivalent.

About the included files

The files included in this package can be used for creating custom TouchTris skin.

bitmap files (*.bmp) - bitmaps from the standard TouchTris skin, can be used as the base for your custom graphics
lowres-skin.rcp, hires-skin.rcp - resource definition files for PilRC resource compiler. Here you can change the skin description text and add/remove bitmaps
res.h - resource definitions, used by *.rcp files (bitmap ID assignment)
Makefile - automates the skin compilation (you need "make", pilrc and build-prc to use this file). Alternatively you can call the pilrc and build-prc by hand:
```
pilrc -ro -o hires-skin.prc hires-skin.rcp
build-prc -o Custom-Hires-Skin.prc -n "Custom Hires Skin" -c ToT2 -t SKIN hires-skin.prc
```