On Monday, July 3, 2000 1:21:20 PM, Howard C. Shaw III wrote:
> Palm OS 3.0 to 3.5 at least, all allow access to form elements before the
> form is drawn. Palm documentation says this is not allowable, and the debug
> roms fail if you do it.
>
> But I, for one, would very much prefer the current state of affairs to be
> recognized by Palm and documented as an allowed usage.
>
> Basically, with standard form elements, it provides a sort of
> double-buffering, in that you can make your changes to the not-yet-onscreen
> form, then draw the complete form, in its final edited stage.
>
I'm not sure I understand. You can still access form elements before the
form is drawn. You can still set labels of controls, set checkboxes on and
off, set the text in fields, set the drawback routine, number of items, and
selection in lists, and so on and so forth.
All that you *can't* do is *draw* any element before the form is drawn.
Then, when you call FrmDrawForm, everything appears as it should, without
any flicker.
Is there something you want to do that I'm missing?
Neil
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