I've been working on an application with several dozen nearly full screen double density bitmaps. I started out working in PODS and recently switched to CodeWarrior to try to get around memory problem encountered in PODS.

In order to get full screen bitmaps, I found I had to break each bitmap into 3 or 4 smaller bitmaps and display them right next to each other, so it looks like one large bitmap.

The problem I run into under CodeWarrior are typically the following type of warning messages and subsequent HotSynch failures -

- Warning : Resource 'Tbmp' 2006, 83440 bytes, exceeds safe HotSynch size limit of 65000 bytes xxx_Rsc.rcp line 1168

- Resource type 'Tbmp', ID 2006, exceeds 64000 bytes. This can produce a PRC file that cannot be transferred to a device.

Any ideas on how to get lots of bitmaps into an application such as how to use multiple resource databases in a single application (so I can split my bitmaps between the multiple resource databases), or other suggestions?

So far the best idea I can think of is to break it into multiple applications and have one application call the other one.

You could try compressing the bitmaps? If you are using PilRC, like this:
Noncompressed: BITMAP ID someBitmap "bitmap.bmp"
Compressed: BITMAP ID someBitmap "bitmap.bmp" COMPRESS
You will need to decompress them in your code using the appropriate functions, though.