Rather than publishing bug reports per-se it might
be nice if Palm used one of the bug-reporting systems
that allowed web-based querying. Bug entries could
not both which version of the OS the problem was addressed
in -and- work-arounds for earlier OS versions.
(It might be too much to ask that they also expose
the problem-report-entry form ... but I know that
some systems have that capability as well...)
--
-Richard M. Hartman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Goodman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 10:24 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Workarounds for various bugs in FldSetScrollPosition()
>
>
> Catherine E. White wrote:
>
> "We've identified 3 separate bugs with this function, some of
> which have
> been corrected in Palm OS 3.3."
>
> Thank you for this post. I REALLY wish Palm would publish bug
> reports. It
> drives me crazy to spend days finding problems that other
> developers have
> already found and reported.
>
> One important reason for Palm to publish these bugs is that a
> bug fix in
> the latest version of the ROMs does NOT solve the problem for
> 3rd party
> developers. While Palm can ignore users with older devices,
> we 3rd party
> developers cannot. These users represent a large market for
> our software.
>
> An additional scrollbar bug I just discovered is:
>
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> To: Palm_Dev_Support
> From: Bill Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: PalmOS 3.3: Bug in text field scrolling code
> Date: 1999-10-26
>
> In the built-in applications (Memo Pad, Todo, Datebook, Address), the
> scrollbar does not operate properly under certain conditions. Tapping
> in the "page up" section of the scrollbar does not scroll by a full
> page.
>
> To demonstrate this error, create a memo with 30 lines of text. Press
> the stylus on the end of the 12th line and drag to the end of the
> memo. The field will auto-scroll. Enter a backspace character to
> delete the text. This should leave only the 12th line visible at
> the top of the display with 9 blank lines below. Tapping in the
> "page up" section of the scrollbar only scrolls by 1 line even though
> there are many more lines of text to scroll in.
>
> Repeating this test by dragging from the 14th line to the end will
> cause the page up to move 3 lines on each tap.
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