We build our release builds on a Mac with CW5 and this problem goes away.
(sorry to those who do not have a Mac to build on.)
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The Windward Group
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jochen Hammer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 12:34 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: AW: Problems with fields and attribute 'underline'
> on Palm IIIx
>
>
> Hi :-)
>
> For getting the dotted lines in a field, I set the underlined flag
> in the constructor. This works ok, but when you type in text
> in this field, all characters are underlined by a 'full' line
> (which 'overwrites' the dotted line).
>
> A day ago I received this mail from Laurence Lundblade, which
> finally solves the problem :-)) :
>
> >>It's a bug in the constructor in CW5. It sets up the
> underline field
> >>incorrectly and Palm V and IIIx now care about it whereas Palm III
> >>doesn't. MW knows about it. Our work around is to
> explicitly find all
> >>the fields in a form and set the field attribute
> attr.underlined to 1
> >>(constructor sets it to 2).
>
> >>LL
>
> So I put a
>
> attr.underlined = 1;
>
> in my Edit_ViewInit() function and the problem disappeared.
>
> I reported this bug (and the solution) to Iambic (Action Names).
> They will release a version 2.06, which solves this problem in their
> application, in a few days.
>
> Cu
> Jochen
>
>
> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Bob Ebert [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 31. Marz 1999 03:21
> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Betreff: Re: Problems with fields and attribute
> 'underline' on Palm IIIx
>
> At 4:08 PM -0800 3/25/99, Jochen Hammer wrote:
> >Every character, which is entered in fields in the running
> application
> >is underlined. That means the dotted line is 'overwritten' from the
> >underlined character which is entered.
>
> I don't understand the visual effect you're trying to
> describe. I don't
> see anything out of the ordinary on the Palm IIIx ROM. Maybe
> you could put
> a screen shot up on a website somewhere?
>
> The underline is normally OR'd over the bottom row of pixels in a
> character. That is, only the 'on' dots in the alternating
> on/off line are
> drawn. Any descenders that fall between the dots remain, and other
> descenders are already 'on' anyway.
>
> Obviously this becomes more of a problem if you're running
> the whole OS in
> (unsupported) grayscale, and trying to do anything with gray text.
>
> --Bob
>
>
>
