Is it in the Palm KB? If not, that little tidbit should be. The docs are a
little hazy on that subject.
I struggled with that problem for a week before I figured it out. ;-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Ebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, March 17, 2000 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: More weirdness
>At 5:18 PM +0100 16-03-00, Dave Lippincott wrote:
>>I never was able
>>to successfully resize a selector and not cause some sort of memory
problems
>>down the road. (at least in OSs 3.0, 3.1 and 3.3)
>
>Right. The text for the label is actually jammed right into the form
>object, after the label structures and before the next form object. So if
>you copy too many characters into that buffer, you overwrite the start of
>the next form object, and that can lead to "object not found" errors or
>worse. Sometimes we also see objects disappearing, because the overwrite
>messes with their bounds and moves the off-screen.
>
>You can't resize the buffer without adjusting a whole bunch of other
>pointers in the form, and that's a pain. So the easy workaround is just
>make sure the buffer is big enough to support the longest string you'll
>ever fit there. The easy way to do that is set the label to a long enough
>string in constructor.
>
> --Bob
>
>
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