In addition to this, i would like to mention that the program is stop at retrieving a palm serial number:
retval = SysGetROMToken (0, sysROMTokenSnum,(UInt8**) &bufP, bufLen); any idea?? "quennie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:77265@palm-dev-forum... > > Hi..all.... i'm going to retrieve the palm serial number programmatically. i > found the code from the falch.net help file and it compiles smoothly. But > when i run the program, it gives me the error: "The application just wrote > to memory location 0x00084A52, which is in the storage heap. In order to > protect the integrity of the user's data, such direct access is not allowed. > Instead, application should use special palm OS functions for this purpose" > > The following code: > > static void DrawSerialNumOrMessage(Int16 x, Int16 y, Char* noNumberMessage) > { > Char* bufP; > UInt16* bufLen; > Err retval; > Int16 count; > UInt8 checkSum; > Char checksumStr[2]; > > > retval = SysGetROMToken (0, sysROMTokenSnum,(UInt8**) &bufP, bufLen); > if ((!retval) && (bufP) && ((UInt8) *bufP != 0xFF)) { > checkSum = 0; > for (count=0; count<*bufLen; count++) > { > checkSum += bufP[count]; > checkSum = (checkSum<<1) | ((checkSum & 0x80) >> 7); > } > checkSum = ((checkSum>>4) & 0x0F) + (checkSum & 0x0F) + 2; > > WinDrawChars(bufP, *bufLen, x, y); > x += FntCharsWidth(bufP, *bufLen); > > // draw the dash and the checksum digit right after it > checksumStr[0] = '-'; > checksumStr[1] = > ((checkSum < 10) ? (checkSum +'0'):(checkSum -10 +'A')); > WinDrawChars (checksumStr, 2, x, y); > } > else // there's no serial number > // draw a status message if the caller provided one > if (noNumberMessage) > WinDrawChars(noNumberMessage, StrLen(noNumberMessage),x, y); > } > > > > i called the program from the > static int StartApplication(void) > { > > Int16 x =10, y = 50; > Char *Msg; > > DrawSerialNumOrMessage(x, y, Msg); > > } > > can i do this by this way??? pls help me. > Thank you very very much > > > > > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
