Hey,

I asked you, like, forever ago for this info since you put that voodoo
in Prefs 2! :-)

~Ryan

On 1/26/09, Dmitry Grinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> That SDK is useless, since OS randomly resets DIA state and what is
> allowed and not allowed (collapsibility, rotateability, orientation)
>
> as long as you are guaranteed to be running on OS 5.4+ the best way is
> to manipulate the fields directly. This causes the DIA to not jerk up
> and down. and allows some stranger states to be set in per-form
> manner. Eg a form's dia policy can be "dia always up, form always
> shown in portrait, rotation disabled collapsing enabled) this means
> that when form is shown device will rotate to portrait alwasy, open
> dia, but allow collapsing and disallow rotation. The parameters are:
>
> orientation: {port,land,rev port, rev land}
> collapsibility: {yes, no}
> rotateability: {yes, no}
> original dia state: {up, down}
>
> thus making for 32 combinations.
>
> If anyone is actually interested, I can share the info
>
>
>
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> Dmitry Grinberg
> (847) 226 9295
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Ben Rittgers <[email protected]> wrote:
>> In the Palm SDK look at the DIA example.  It is not well documented.
>> Honestly, that is the best example in all of Palm Programming for using
>> the
>> DIA.  I tried googling for more info.
>>
>> As for preventing rotation look around.  Just make the forms you want to
>> be
>> full screen, be full screen.  For the once that you don't want to be full
>> screen, just display the keyboard.
>>
>> codemaker wrote:
>>>
>>> Is it possible to disable or enable some functions of Dia?
>>> For example, I don't want the device to rotate and I always want to
>>> display some forms in full screen while in another form I always want to
>>> display the keyboard.
>>> How do you set this programmatically?
>>>
>>
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