Dictionary for palm

[caprice1982]

Hello guys, I'm a new comer to this forum.

I have to develop a dictionary for palm (as my school assignment), but I have no idea how to start. I got few questions, hope someone can help me, thanks!

1. How can I compress the database? Since it is now in ASCII, likely I should convert it to binary form.
2. Do you think code warrier is a good developing tool? Or I heard that visual basic can also do palm programming.

Thanks very much!

[PaulMdx]

You should take a look at NSBasic, which is a VB-like dev environment. I've played with it briefly myself and it is VERY easy to use if you know a little VB.

Regarding dictionary compression.. By 'convert it to binary' I take it you mean to store it in a more efficient way.. ASCII is just a mapping from binary to characters anyway, so technically your text dictionary IS in binary.

I've not done much Palm dev (I'm a Windows developer), but if you want some pointers on dictionary scanners let me know by private message.