I have an app that uses multiple databases. Inside the app the user can
delete any (or all) of the databases. When running gremlins, unless I run
my gremlin build to disable the delete button, all the dbs get deleted and
gremlins ends up running on regular OS stuff. Would that affect Platinum
testing?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Danny
> Epstein
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 3:19 PM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: Re: DmDatabaseSize blowing up with "Free Handle". Proper POSE
> behaviour.
>
>
> "Scott Maxwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:33760@palm-dev-forum...
> > I figured this one out. The culprit was the fact that gremlins never
> > actually exists [exits?] the app. My app was beaming a
> database to itself
> (using
> > loopback) and the document list database gets updated by
> scanning when the
> > app starts. In this case, the scan didn't happen so my
> cardNo/dbid where
> no
> > longer valid.
> >
> > This probably needs to be addressed in POSE. When an event
> occurs that
> would
> > normally cause the app to stop, POSE should really exit the app and
> relaunch
> > it. I am forced to have a special "gremlin" build of my app to patch
> around
> > these problems and that could be a problem and
> compatibility testing time.
>
> I don't see what this has to do with Poser or gremlins,
> specifically. It
> sounds like you could reproduce the same bug in the
> simulator, or even on
> the device using shortcut-dot-t. You may need some special
> cases in your app
> to handle loopback mode.
>
> Consider the following scenario:
> - Device A is running your app
> - Device B beams data destined for your app to device A
>
> The only reason this works (and I'm assuming that it does in
> fact work) is
> that the Exchange Manager switches to your app for the goto
> launch, even if
> it's already running. That is, it quits your app, and runs it
> again. The
> relaunch is a sysAppLaunchCmdGoTo launch with new globals, so you call
> AppStart again.
>
> Now let's consider loopback mode. It's very similar. Again,
> your AppStart
> routine should get called when the goto launch happens. Are
> you getting the
> goto launch?
>
> > In fact, it would
> > be great to have an option to allow the selection of 2 apps
> to run so that
> > we can better test how well our apps play with others.
>
> You can select any subset of the apps on the emulated device
> for gremlins to
> play with. Selecting at least one other app besides your app
> is a good way
> to make sure you're handling most of the launch codes
> correctly even when
> your app isn't running. (But don't use Launcher; it might
> delete your app.)
> --
> Danny Epstein
> OS Engineer, Palm Inc.
>
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