Actually, I see it happen every so often on my Symbol 1700. It's
one ODD bug...when I see it, I just modify the button so that it
has no label, then set the label right after the form load process.
It's really irritating.
-Rus
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Burmeister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 8:02 AM
>To: Palm Developer Forum
>Subject: Re: corrupt button label on custom form
>
>
>The user just reported to me that this behavior only occurs on his Palm
>IIIxe, running Palm OS 3.5. I haven't found any related info in the
>archives yet. Does this clue suggest anything to anyone out there?
>TIA
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Richard Burmeister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 9:29 PM
>Subject: corrupt button label on custom form
>
>
>> A user of one of my apps reports that "sometimes when I
>change from [one
>> program option to another] the
>> dialog box where it should say OK says OQ. Very weird....but I can
>> duplicate it time and again...."
>>
>> I have never seen this behavior in testing with millions of
>gremlins, on
>any
>> ROM, or on my Palm V or my Palm VII.
>>
>> The way the program option is changed is in response to a
>popSelectEvent.
>> For example, to switch to "smart" mode:
>>
>> if ( eventP->data.popSelect.selection == SMART )
>> {
>> // put SmartStrString resource into a global var, declared Char
>> gString[100];
>> SysCopyStringResource( gString, SmartStrString );
>>
>> if ( FrmCustomAlert( NewGameAlert, gString, NULL, NULL ) ==
>NewGameOK )
>> // set a few globals and redraw the main form (with
>FrmGotoForm)
>> StartNewGame( 1, SMART );
>> }
>> // etc.
>>
>> The OK button he refers to is on the custom alert. (The
>alert has only
>^1;
>> no ^2 or ^3 so in theory it is safe to pass in NULL for the unused
>params.)
>> The alert displays "Do you want to start a new game in ^1
>mode?" and has
>an
>> OK and a Cancel button.
>>
>> So far, the only guesses I have about what is causing this are:
>>
>> 1) Some hack on his Palm is messing things up, or
>> 2) His Palm needs a reset to clear up corrupt memory, or
>> 3) (I hope not, but maybe) I am doing something nasty
>somewhere else which
>> over-writes the form. (So far, I haven't found any such errors in the
>code.)
>>
>> Does anybody have any other ideas/suggestions?
>> TIA
>
>
>
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