At 12:00am -0800 00-02-01, Palm Developer Forum digest wrote:
>Subject: RE: a great Tip - literally
>From: "Scott Johnson (WA)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 09:03:03 -0800
>X-Message-Number: 23
>
> > From: Paul Nevai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > create a "myTips" form as described below in your own
> > application with EXACTLY the very same ID numbers [...]
> > Am I the first one to discover this?
>
>No, it's a fairly well known technique.
>
> > Is this safe?
>
>Well, it's mostly safe when run on OS versions that you have tested. But
>since you're taking advantage of undocumented behavior, there is nothing to
>prevent it from breaking in future OS releases. So be careful. For the
>specific example you gave (the Tips dialog) I don't really see the point of
>tweaking the font anyway.
It's not all that safe for future versions of the OS, because the
implementation of tips can change. An example of this is an app
(forget which one) that created a new About box by using a similar
technique to override the default Palm OS About box form (used by all
of Palm's apps).
With OS 3.5, we changed how the About box text is created, and thus
his About box doesn't look right anymore.
-- Ken
Ken Krugler
TransPac Software, Inc.
<http://www.transpac.com>
+1 530-470-9200
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