Ben Combee wrote in message <9827@palm-dev-forum>...
>
>"Dave Lippincott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:9807@palm-dev-forum...
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>> Whats wrong with directly checking FieldAttrPtr->usable?
>
>The PalmOS documentation warns that you should treat the FieldType
structure
>as opaque, only using system calls to access its internal contents. I
don't
>mind directly checking the field, but I'd be afraid that it could break
with
>a future version of PalmOS.
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>
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>
The only problem is that they don't provide APIs to
all of the information for all of the object types... For
instance you can set the font on a FieldPtr via an API
but for a ControlPtr or a LabelPtr you have to do it
by hand.
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-Richard M. Hartman
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