[Palm OS] Palm OS screen size.
 

I looked around and haven't seen this addressed. I just installed GarnetVM and it seems pretty neat but displays vertically on my screen taking up maybe a third at most of the available space.

The screen on the Nokia is small enough, I don't need to make it more challenging for me! Is there a way to rotate the Garnet screen and make it take up most or all of the available screen space?

Re: Palm OS screen size.
 

Rotate: Yes. Resize: No. Sorry. More info here (read the comments too):

http://sense-datum.org/tim/archive/2...samoff__weblog

Tim

Re: Palm OS screen size.
 

Unfortunately, rotating means typing with the built-in keyboard becomes very awkward.

I wonder how many Palm applications are written to target a fixed screen size and aspect ratio?

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That's too bad. As I said in my first post in this thread, the VM is really cool and I was excited at the chance of running some of the programs I have liked on my palm devices, but with that small screen layout, I don't really see it as useful.

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What I'd like them to do is shift the VM image to the left (or right if you're left handed) and add a soft keyboard with nice big keys to the remaining 2/3 of the screen. you could probably have a finger usable keyboard in that space...

...or a MASSIVE graffiti area ;0)

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As far as I know, the present VM for Maemo is beta release, with final version expected by December; maybe would have full or more usable screen size then.

Re: Palm OS screen size.
 

Well, technically, all of them. Palm OS (aka Garnet) never quite got enough of a graphical toolkit to handle any sort of resizeable window. The screen resolutions are basically the standard (160x160, which is normally automatically pixel-doubled by the OS in newer devices), HiRes (320x320), or HiRes+ (320x480, allowing the dynamic input area to be minimized into the status bar). There is no support for any other resolutions in the OS.

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I definitely hope so. It's an interesting toy now, but if it could use most of the screen, I'd love it.

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Yes. it's an interesting beata but PLEASE PLEASE we need to be able to run the display in 320/320 full screen mode for any real usefullness, most programs have a 320x320 mode built in or are automatically scaled by the OS (garnet 5) to that as I remember.

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http://pupnik.de/POSE_0_01_Nokia_770_rot_kbd.jpg

I hope they do something like that...