# Building Forms

You can use Pocket Smalltalk to build applications that use native PalmOS GUI objects such as buttons and list boxes. To do this, you will need a way to create PalmOS resources. You can use Wes Cherry's PilRC tool to do this. Please read the documentation for that product to learn how to create resources, compile them, and link them into .PRC resource databases.

Once you have created a .PRC resource database containing the resources needed for your application, you need to add it to your Pocket Smalltalk project by using the Resource Browser (under the Tools menu in the launcher). Pocket Smalltalk will take the resources from all the resource databases you have added with this tool and combine them into a single finished "executable" .PRC file.

In order to control PalmOS resource objects from within your Smalltalk program, you will need to establish bindings between