"Again, if you see someone repeatedly using the list for basic questions,
then fine, slam him."
This is ticking me off! Why would you slam someone for asking a question!?
Developing for the Palm would be a lot easier if the documentation didn't
suck! I have asked several questions on this list without EVER getting an
answer and I still haven't figured the problems out. That's what this list
is for!
If the question is basic, point the person in the right direction. Please!
"DIAMOND JEFF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:37120@palm-dev-forum...
>
> That's another good point!
>
> It's pretty degrading when people's gut reaction is to assume the person's
problem is trivial and basic. I've seen this happen MANY
> times on this group. It's a lot less insulting to just add a tag line to
your answer in which you assume it is a worthy question,
> e,.g.,
>
> "Assuming these pointers weren't created by your code, in which case you
should check their validity, you might try ..."
>
> For reference, I thought the way people responded to the person who didn't
know the C '\' Macro symbol was perfect.
>
> Again, if you see someone repeatedly using the list for basic questions,
then fine, slam him. But otherwise, give them benefit of
> the doubt. These people are good contributers to the list, and everyone's
here because they want to develop for the Palm.
>
>
> Bobby Williams wrote:
>
> > Thanks for you reply. Not to start a flame war or anything, but I'll
state
> > this again, my question was not an issue of if I had a now defunct
pointer
> > or not. As an exercise, I was examining system Features and I was
trying to
> > discover if there was a known mechanism for determining what is a valid
> > pointer and what is not. Not pointers I've generated, but ANY pointer,
> > specifically pointers stored as Feature values. I DID look into this
> > problem before posting. There is no documentation or knowledge base
> > articles covering this domain. In fact, I spent the better part of two
days
> > trying to work out a solution on my own. And yes, I have over 2 years
of
> > Palm OS development and I do know the basics of good coding practices.
I
> > even know how to manage my own pointers. :) But by your own words, this
> > falls into the category of "issues that are not documented". When I had
a
> > road block, I thought to myself: "This would be a good question for
> > palm-dev-forum..." Like I said, tough crowd. :)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aaron
> > Ardiri
> > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 4:10 AM
> > To: Palm Developer Forum
> > Subject: RE: How to test for valid pointers?
> >
> > > Wow, tough crowd! Not to be defensive, but I don't think my question
was
> > > silly at all. Perhaps the wording could of been improved, but it's a
> > valid,
> > > non-trivial request for information.
> >
> > dont worry.. some of us actually hold back from hitting the send
> > button after writing comments like that :P it gets to you when
> > you start to realize that people dont RTFM or even *try* looking
> > for a solution to the problems they have before they post here.
> >
> > > Isn't this one of the purposes of this list?
> >
> > not to ask questions that are readily available in the knowledge
> > base, documentation etc.. you use the dev list to bring up issues
> > that are not documented (in my opinion).. mostly, topics discussed
> > here end up translated to the knowledge base eventually.
> >
> > i think its just a purpose of "hey, i cannot be bothered checking"
> > and wola.. people post anyhow..
> >
> > > There is no MemIsValidPtr()-type of function, and would rather not
> > > make assumptions based upon a given value.
> >
> > you know, *you* manage your pointers.. if you free a pointer,
> > then set the pointer reference to NULL afterwards.. then a
> > simple check if it is NULL will be sufficient.. you can also
> > check lock counts on handles if you want to go that far :)
> >
> > > BTW, thanks to those who did respond.
> >
> > look for the Mem* API routines.. :)
> >
> > if i sound abrupt.. thats just the way i am after flying from
> > USA and heading straight into email at 7am :) excuse me :P
> >
> > // az
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.ardiri.com/ <--- free games!
> >
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