Palm Mirror

However, reliable sources have told me that this is a useful feature, and that people actually regularly use something like this to adjust makeup, hair, and such. I therefore couldn't resist and actually wrote one myself. Mine has the "advantage" that it doesn't show a title bar, therefore increasing the totally black area by a few pixels. If you want to see the "about" information, just click anywhere on the screen, or again to dismiss it.

Upon the urging of friends and relatives, version 2.0 adds some Mirror quotes - continued clicking after displaying the "about" information will rotate through half a dozen quotations having something to do with mirrors.

Palm Mirror, zipped, about 11.7 Kbytes.

The program itself is the Mirror.prc file. Unzip Mirror.zip, then install Mirror.prc - on Windows, double-clicking Mirror.prc is enough to bring up the installer, so it will be installed on the next hotsync.

Besides that, the zip file contains this HTML document, the Waba language (a Java port to the PalmOS) source code, resource file, and the small icon bitmap: . The default PalmOS application icon (a Palm with black screen) suffices nicely for the large icon. I used WabaJump to make the stand-alone executable, but presumably it will work with normal Waba as well.

Finally, on the right here is what it looks like, as a Java applet. Just a black area. Probably not nearly as reflective on a computer screen as on the actual Palm device, where it does actually work fairly well. The quotes show up either way.

All this is free, open source, no warranty or guarantee whatsoever, all that. If you redistribute it, give me credit. If you change it, I would appreciate it if you told me, and sent me a copy, so I could maintain the definitive version here, but it is not strictly necessary. If you like it, sign my guestbook and say so.

George Ruban, August 2001.