How to Create a Palm Application?

Hi,

I know my topic is a bit large, but I would like to know what tool I can use to create an application on my Palm and if possible I need this application to be compatible with Excel. Maybe it already exists a bridge between a C++ program (or whatever languages) and excel.

I`ll try to explain what my application has to do: We are an manufacturing company, so we are producing some pieces for trucks/snowmobile and some times we have specific problem with some of those pieces and I want to be able to write the serial number of this piece and able to identify the problem. Right now employees are writting the problem on sheet of paper and after they are going to enter the data into a spreedsheet. So I want to create an application that will be able to choose the problem and after this I need to transfer it to a spreedsheet. (it contains image of the pieces and what they have to do to correct this problem).


Sorry my knowledge on Palm development is not very high so I need all informations you can provide me.

Thx a lot.

Denzmor