This page is about Prc2pilrc.

What is Prc2pilrc ?

Prc2pilrc is a freeware program that will help PalmPilot programmers using gcc and pilrc to extract resources from a .prc file. The reources that are understood by pilrc version 2.0 by Wes Cherry are written to a .rcp file in pilrc source format. Resources that are not handled by pilrc are written to .bin files ( with the exception of code and data resources). Bitmaps are extracted from the .prc file and stored as .pbitm files.

Prc2pilrc is written in Java and should run vith java 1.1 and higher.

An example of the output of Prc2pilrc when run against the MemoPad.prc file from the Tutorial.

Download Prc2pilrc.tgz . The gzip compressed tar file contains:

Prc2pilrc.jar The excutable java code.
Prc2pilrc : a shell script that shows how to start Prc2pilrc. This need to be edited to use your path names.
Prc2pilrc.html : this page

Prc2pilrc.tar:

Usage:
    Prc2pilrc [-nobin] -nobitmaps] [-directory <path>] <file>.prc
        -nobin            do not generate binary files for resources not handled by pilrc.
        -nobitmaps    do not generate .pbitm files.
        -directory <path>    put out files in this directory.

Acknowledgements:
This program was inspired by ptools by Hoshi Takanori . Ptools will also show you the pilrc source for a resource and will allow you to save it to file; Prc2pilrc is easier to use when you want to extract ALL resources. Prc2pilrc also is updated to support all resources in pilrc 2.0.

The availabilty of the source code for both pilrc and ptools made writing this program possible.

Bugreports, bugfixes and requests for new features to Dick van den Burg