Thanks Doug, Repeating buttons are the ones that appear with a top and bottom arrow. I have seen them in lots of apps. They are mentioned in Lonnon R. Foster´s excelent book: "Professional Palm OS Programming (pag 22)" and they also appear in PODS´ resource editor. I probably didn´t made myself clear, I want to design a form that has more input fields than can be put into a 160x160 screen so I definitely have to use some sort of scrolling mechanism. The most relevant idea here isn´t the type of scrolling (both scrollbars and repeating buttons achieve this purpose ) mechanism that I end up using but how to implement it. I have tried with the resource Editor but its impossible so I'm starting to think that the only possibility that I have is to generate all the form from code but this is where I am kind of lost. I have no idea on how to implement this, how to generate the form from code and integrate it with scrolling actions, and show/hide elements according to scrolling events sent by the user, how can I control the rendering area to assure that it doesn´t exceeds 160x160 or does somehow Palm takes care of this for me? In general this seems to be a very complex issue 'cause believe me, I spent almost half day googling for examples without success. If anybody can help me with an example or clearing the FUD for me I´ll be really thankful.
Best regards to all, Jorge Vásquez On 10/2/06, Doug Reeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Oct 1, 2006, at 6:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am using the Palm OS Resource Editor that comes bundled with the > Eclipse PODS to create a form which doesn't fit in the 160x160 > screen so I would need to either use a repeating button or a > scrollbar. I'm not quite sure what you mean by "repeating buttons" in this context, but the OS only has support for scrolling text fields, not other controls. Forms can't be larger than 160x160 (excluding any effect from a dynamic input area). It is possible to create the effect of a "multi-page" form by making controls appear and disappear, as, for example, happens in the Sounds application on the Treo 650/700p. -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
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