but It doeesn't work in my palm either. Did you give a look to my code and
find everything was ok????
----- Original Message -----
From: William F. Weiher III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 8:01 PM
Subject: RE: NetSelect
> Select does not support stdin on the emulator, I have had no trouble with
it
> on the actual device (symbol 1740)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ariel Barreiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 13:46
> To: Palm Forum List
> Subject: NetSelect
>
> Dear all,
>
> I know that recently somebody asked a bout netselect but I read the
messages
> and I couldnt get the idea.
>
> I have a read and write functions that performs some stuff inside the net
> layer.The problem is that I dont handle the data reception as an event. I
> just entered in a loop while I wait for the data to get into the palm. Now
> if the data lasts 2 or 3 minutes (that are time that might last and are
> under my timeout) the palm stay hanged until the data is ready. Now I
tried
> to implement a select as I implemented for the conduit (which has the same
> read write functions). I wanted to do this to show the a countdown of the
> time out and a progress bar. That's works fine (I havent done the progress
> bar but the timeout of the select works fine).
>
> Now my problem is with the stdin File Descriptor. If a tested in the palm
it
> turns out that the stdin is always set, otherwise in the Emulator it is
> never set. What I want is the stdin let me know when the user taps
something
> on the screen, knows where and if for example the user taps the
application
> button the reception of the data should be cancelled. Can somebody help me
> do that without changing to much the style of my net layer. Thanks a lot.
>
> Here is my read function.
>
> int Read(void *buf, Word len) {
> while (len) {
> // Create the descriptor sets
> netFDZero(&readFDs);
> netFDZero(&writeFDs);
> netFDZero(&exceptFDs);
> netFDSet(sysFileDescStdIn, &readFDs);
> netFDSet(peer, &readFDs);
>
> width = sysFileDescStdIn;
> width = 0;
> if (peer > width) width = peer;
>
> numFDs = NetLibSelect(AppNetRefnum, width+1, &readFDs,
&writeFDs,
> &exceptFDs, sysTicksPerSecond, &netErr);
>
> if ( netFDIsSet(sysFileDescStdIn, &readFDs) ) {
> // Do some cancel routine
> }
> if (netFDIsSet(peer, &readFDs) == 0) {
> timeCount++;
> } else {
> if ( (cnt = NetLibReceive(AppNetRefnum, peer, buf, len, 0,
NULL,
> 0, NETTIMEOUT, &netErr)) == -1) {
> err = ERROR_GENERAL;
> return err;
> }
> len -= cnt;
> (unsigned char *) buf += cnt;
> }
> }
> }
>
>
>
>
>
>
