Newbie question

[Thiago Neves Santos]

Hi all I'm new to palm programming and to this list. And I'm having some problems to 
make this application handle menu events. It is from the Palm Programming Bible. It 
doesn't respond to any menu events. Can someone help me?

Here are the code: (i'm using prc-tools under linux)

#include <PalmOS.h>
#include "resource.h"

static Err StartApplication (void)
{
  FrmGotoForm(MainForm);
  return 0;
}

static void StopApplication (void)
{
  FrmCloseAllForms ();
}

static void SaySomething (UInt16 alertID)
{
  FormType *form = FrmGetActiveForm();
  FieldType *field;
  MemHandle h;
  field = FrmGetObjectPtr(form, FrmGetObjectIndex(form,
  MainNameField));

  if (FldGetTextLength(field) > 0) {
     FldCompactText(field);
     h = FldGetTextHandle(field);

     if (h) {
       Char *s;
       s = MemHandleLock((void *)h);
       FrmCustomAlert(alertID, s, NULL, NULL);
       MemHandleUnlock((void *)h);
     }
   } else {
// No text in field, so display a whoever you are
// dialog.
   FrmCustomAlert(alertID, "whoever you are", NULL, NULL);
   }
}

static Boolean MainMenuHandleEvent (UInt16 menuID)
{
  Boolean handled = false;
  FormType *form;
  FieldType *field;
  form = FrmGetActiveForm();
  field = FrmGetObjectPtr(form, FrmGetObjectIndex(form, MainNameField));

  switch (menuID) {
    case MainEditUndo:
      FldUndo(field);
      handled = true;
      break;

    case MainEditCut:
      FldCut(field);
      handled = true;
      break;

    case MainEditCopy:
      FldCopy(field);
      handled = true;
      break;

    case MainEditPaste:
      FldPaste(field);
      handled = true;
      break;

    case MainEditSelectAll:
      FldSetSelection(field, 0,
      FldGetTextLength(field));
      handled = true;
      break;

    case MainEditKeyboard:
      SysKeyboardDialog(kbdDefault);
      handled = true;
      break;

    case MainEditGraffitiHelp:
      SysGraffitiReferenceDialog(referenceDefault);
      handled = true;
      break;

    case MainOptionsAboutHelloWorld:
      FrmAlert(AboutAlert);
      handled = true;
      break;

    default:
      break;
  }
  return handled;
}

static Boolean MainFormHandleEvent (EventPtr event)
{
  Boolean handled = false;

  switch (event->eType) {
    case menuEvent:
          handled = MainMenuHandleEvent(event->data.menu.itemID);
          break;
          
    case frmOpenEvent:
    {
      FormType *form = FrmGetActiveForm();
      FrmDrawForm(form);
      FrmSetFocus(form, FrmGetObjectIndex(form,
      MainNameField));
      handled = true;
    }
    break;

    case ctlSelectEvent:
      switch (event->data.ctlSelect.controlID) {
        case MainHelloButton:
          SaySomething(HelloAlert);
          handled = true;
          break;

        case MainGoodbyeButton:
          SaySomething(GoodbyeAlert);
          handled = true;
          break;

        default:
          break;
      }
      break;

    default:
      break;
  }
  return handled;
}

static Boolean ApplicationHandleEvent (EventPtr event)
{
  FormType *form;
  UInt16 formID;
  Boolean handled = false;

  switch (event->eType) {
    case frmLoadEvent:
      formID = event->data.frmLoad.formID;
      form = FrmInitForm(formID);
      FrmSetActiveForm(form);

      switch (formID) {
        case MainForm:
          FrmSetEventHandler(form, MainFormHandleEvent);
          handled = true;
          break;

        default:
          break;
      }
  }
  return handled;
}

static void EventLoop (void)
{
  EventType event;
  UInt16 error;

  do {
    EvtGetEvent(&event, evtWaitForever);
    if (! SysHandleEvent(&event))
      if (! MenuHandleEvent(0, &event, &error))
        if (! ApplicationHandleEvent(&event))
          FrmDispatchEvent(&event);
  } while (event.eType != appStopEvent);
}

UInt32 PilotMain (UInt16 launchCode, MemPtr cmdPBP, UInt16 launchFlags)
{
  Err err;

  switch (launchCode) {
    case sysAppLaunchCmdNormalLaunch:
      if ((err = StartApplication()) == 0) {
        EventLoop();
        StopApplication();
      }
      break;

    default:
      break;
  }
  return err;
}

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