Re: Need more memory

2000-07-07 Thread Tom Zerucha
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 08:36:32PM -0700, Adam Wozniak wrote: Tom Zerucha wrote: Is there a reason you need to do lots of small scattered writes so you can't just allocate a bunch of records in a regular database and use DmWrite (that is what I do in the similar circumstance). Actually,

bitmaps over buttons

2000-07-07 Thread Holger Klawitter
Hi there, what is the recommended way to create a button labeled with a bitmap instead of normal text? Is there anything more convenient than using gadgets and to reinvent the whole pentracking code? Regards, Mit freundlichem Gruß, Holger Klawitter PS: sorry about reposting, but i

Debugging IrLAP

2000-07-07 Thread Scott Maxwell
I am about to start playing with IrLAP. Does anyone have any great ideas for how to debug an app that uses IR? Is IrLAP the best protocol to use to send complex data back and forth between two devices? Any comments are welcome. TIA. Scott Maxwell Quik Sense Software -- For information on

RE: bitmaps over buttons

2000-07-07 Thread Herve Groleas
Make a button and then a bitmap of the same size and at the same location. It's magic, it's works ! Herve Groleas -Message d'origine- De: Holger Klawitter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: vendredi 7 juillet 2000 09:40 A: Palm Developer Forum Objet: bitmaps over buttons Hi

RE: About Oracle Lite

2000-07-07 Thread Herve Groleas
I had some problems with Oracle Lite too. Local support is often lite as well :-) Just ask then to contact the us support. Herve Groleas -Message d'origine- De: Jason Zhan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: vendredi 7 juillet 2000 04:44 A: Palm Developer Forum Objet: Re: About

Starting an application on beaming

2000-07-07 Thread Marcelio DeathAvenger
Hi all, I want to ask if there is any way to start an application at the first time I beam it from one Palm to the other. I am not using the in-built beaming provided, instead I write the code to beam it. Any help would be appreciated. Marcel -- For information on using the Palm

Re: Starting an application on beaming

2000-07-07 Thread krollin
Marcel, You might have to elaborate on the problem you're having. If it's your code that's doing the beaming, then why can't your code call SysUIAppSwitch to run it? If you were using the Exchange Manager, your application would automatically get called with a sysAppLaunchCmdSyncNotify launc

Re: bitmaps over buttons

2000-07-07 Thread Holger Klawitter
Herve Groleas wrote: Make a button and then a bitmap of the same size and at the same location. It's magic, it's works ! I was discouraged by reading that this wouldn't work for color devices. But as long as your icons are BW it works like a charm! Thanks for pointing out, Holger

RE:RE Converting

2000-07-07 Thread Löfving, Christer
It is now I get these errors (when building the project); Link Error : Error while creating/copying resource fork. Link Error : Error while saving resources. If i now open the buttons.rsrc files in the constructor, it is 'empty'. There are 'forms 0 items..' and so on. It is 'empty'

New Inprise's add-on for Palm development using Java

2000-07-07 Thread Roberto Amorim
JBuilder™ Handheld Express™ http://www.inprise.com/jbuilder/hhe/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Emulator for hotsynch

2000-07-07 Thread Löfving, Christer
Does anyone know how to use the Palm emulator for hotsynch? Christer -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

RE: bitmaps over buttons

2000-07-07 Thread Ed Mittelstedt
You could always use a gadget control. You provide a callback routine for the repaints, so it can look however you want! -Ed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Holger Klawitter Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 4:56 AM To: Palm Developer Forum

global variables?

2000-07-07 Thread Bulent Gecer
When "MyApp" gets launched by another application with the call SysAppLaunch(...), I get the following message in POSE: ""MyApp" 1.0 has just tried to access a global variable at a time when global variable access is not allowed. Typically, this means that the application tried to access the

RE: bitmaps over buttons

2000-07-07 Thread DeAnna Davidson
It may not be the recommended way for color devices, but it does work... DeAnna -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Holger Klawitter Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 4:56 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: bitmaps over buttons

Re: Manual install of applications

2000-07-07 Thread Yegor Bryukhov
Probably the best way is to write ExgDBRead callback functions that read the data (formatted as a .prc file) from the TCP or serial stream, and let ExgDB turn it into a database. So I have to read .prc file as a stream (without any conversions) and provide it's contents to ExgDBRead. Am I

Re: Emulator for hotsynch

2000-07-07 Thread Yegor Bryukhov
Löfving, Christer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:16562@palm-dev-forum... Does anyone know how to use the Palm emulator for hotsynch? You need null-modem cable to connect your two com-ports. Then tune HotSyncto one of them and Emulator to the second one. -- For information on

RE: Emulator for hotsynch

2000-07-07 Thread McMicken, Steven
See KnowledgeBase article #1674. http://oasis.palm.com/dev/kb/article.cfm?id=1674 It tells you how to HotSync through the COM ports, or using a network HotSync. Regards, Steve -Original Message- From: "Löfving, Christer" [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 7:50 AM

pose web browser connection/recommendation?

2000-07-07 Thread TSkill
Can anyone recommend a web browser to use for the POSE that I can connect with directly (true html browser) without going through a proxy or gateway (ie. avantgo) ?? Am developing web apps, and want to test them locally before deploying them on the internet. thanks a bunch. I am currently

Re: Manual install of applications

2000-07-07 Thread Tom Zerucha
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 11:55:41PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably the best way is to write ExgDBRead callback functions that read the data (formatted as a .prc file) from the TCP or serial stream, and let ExgDB turn it into a database. -- Keith Rollin -- Palm OS Emulator

Re: Starting an application on beaming

2000-07-07 Thread Tom Zerucha
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 04:27:34PM +0800, Marcelio DeathAvenger wrote: Hi all, I want to ask if there is any way to start an application at the first time I beam it from one Palm to the other. I am not using the in-built beaming provided, instead I write the code to beam it. Any help

Serial Communications

2000-07-07 Thread Andrew Lathrop
I am going to have to write a program that communicates with a piece of hardware through the Palm's serial port. Does anyone know of any websites, documentation or books that would be helpful in doing this? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Andrew -- For information on

Re: pose web browser connection/recommendation?

2000-07-07 Thread Tom Zerucha
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 09:37:44AM -0500, TSkill wrote: Can anyone recommend a web browser to use for the POSE that I can connect with directly (true html browser) without going through a proxy or gateway (ie. avantgo) ?? PalmScape and HandWeb both can browse HTML directly from the PPP link

Re: Emulator for hotsynch

2000-07-07 Thread Jon Baer
The much easier step-by-step instructions to hotsync locally using "Network Hotsync" with POSE. These instructions are intended for developers or other POSE users who want to synchronize the Palm OS Emulator with the same PC they are running POSE on. Modifications to these directions may be

RE: pose web browser connection/recommendation?

2000-07-07 Thread Skill, Tom
yes, i've tried those but they do not support images. do you know of any palm browsers that support images that i can use on POSE? thanks. Tom Skill MIS, SecurityLink Corporate (630)572-1871 -Original Message- From: Tom Zerucha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000

RE: Manual install of applications

2000-07-07 Thread Ed Mittelstedt
I wrote this list before and guess no one knew. Where is the format of these .prc databases documented? -Ed Probably the best way is to write ExgDBRead callback functions that read the data (formatted as a .prc file) from the TCP or serial stream, and let ExgDB turn it into a database.

Control using custom font - How?

2000-07-07 Thread Dave Johnson
I need to set the font of several controls, labels, etc. at runtime (I'm using a custom font that has some mathematical characters in it: pi, theta, etc.). Right now I'm just setting it directly: aControlPointer-font = kMathFontID; and that seems to work fine on all the current OS's. But it

Re: Manual install of applications

2000-07-07 Thread Dave Lippincott
Its possible no one answered because its a common question. Look through the list archive (either egroups or news.palmos.com). I know I've posted links to relevant documents several time in recent months. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

RE: Starting an application on beaming

2000-07-07 Thread Don Hyde
I think it would be a horrible idea for a handheld to be set up so that an application could silently start up when received by beaming. Imagine sitting in your favorite cafe with your Palm on the table as you flirt with the cute waitress, and some sleazoid across the room beams you a program

RE: bitmaps over buttons

2000-07-07 Thread Herve Groleas
A lot of PDA are still under OS 3.3 Just think compatibility ! Herve -Message d'origine- De: Bob Ebert [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: vendredi 7 juillet 2000 17:31 A: Palm Developer Forum Objet: RE: bitmaps over buttons At 10:03 AM +0200 07/7/00, Herve Groleas wrote: Make a

RE: About Oracle Lite

2000-07-07 Thread Chang . Elizabeth
Jason, Why don't you consider XTNDConnect Server from Extended Systems. We are going to evaluate the server next week against Oracle Lite. The server supports standard ODBC databases. -Elizabeth |+- || Herve.Groleas@s| ||

Re: global variables?

2000-07-07 Thread Steve Mann
When "MyApp" gets launched by another application with the call SysAppLaunch(...), I get the following message in POSE: Check page 58 of the Palm OS Programmer's Companion. Regards, Steve Mann -- --- Creative Digital Publishing Inc. 1315 Palm Street, San

Re: help

2000-07-07 Thread Charles Rezsonya
-Original Message- From: Richard M. Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, July 06, 2000 7:12 PM Subject: Re: help help o/ I need somebody ... o/ help! -- For information on using the Palm Developer

Re: Debugging IrLAP

2000-07-07 Thread Danny Epstein
The comm-dev-forum would be a better place for this topic... "Scott Maxwell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:16552@palm-dev-forum... Does anyone have any great ideas for how to debug an app that uses IR? I've use WinDrawChars and writing to a database. Memo Pad's database would be a

Re: Manual install of applications

2000-07-07 Thread Danny Epstein
"Tom Zerucha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:16578@palm-dev-forum... 1. Resource databases emerge from ExgDBWrite as a .prc image (which you imply) Yes. Rather it's a .prc or .pdb image (depending on whether the database that went in was a record or resource database). The result is

Float/Double conversion

2000-07-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, I'm trying to do conversions between floats and doubles. I have the following variables: FlpCompDouble float_d; FlpCompFloat float_f; These are defined in FloatMgr.h as: typedef union { double d; // for easy assignment of values FlpDouble

Distiller

2000-07-07 Thread jherrera
Hello , Does anybody have some minimun experience working with Acrobat Distiller? , i'm developing a handled aplication that needs to work with .pdf format files and modify them. Any comment can help Thanks in advance. Jorge - Peru -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums,

Re: Float/Double conversion

2000-07-07 Thread Dave Lippincott
Would this work for you? I've used it in other Palm applications without problems (except precision loss). Double MyDouble; Float MyFloat; MyDouble = MyFloat; or MyFloat = MyDouble; -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Re: Control using custom font - How?

2000-07-07 Thread Richard M. Hartman
Dave Johnson wrote in message 16587@palm-dev-forum... I need to set the font of several controls, labels, etc. at runtime (I'm using a custom font that has some mathematical characters in it: pi, theta, etc.). Right now I'm just setting it directly: aControlPointer-font = kMathFontID; and

Re: LstSetListChoices

2000-07-07 Thread Steve Mann
My question is how can I define the first item to display? LstSetTopItem. Regards, Steve Mann -- --- Creative Digital Publishing Inc. 1315 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-3117 --- 805.784.9461

DmCreateDatabase

2000-07-07 Thread Silvia Brunet
I have the following code and function right after the DmCreateDatabase I get an error = 537 back. I cant find what this error is all about. Funy thing is that I have used this function in other applications before and worked fine any suggestions?

RAS Connection to Windows NT Server

2000-07-07 Thread Hemanth Presingu
I am having trouble connecting PALM Vx to Windows NT Server 4.0 I have followed the document which was posted earlier and also gone through the other posts,but still it didn't work. My Settings Are: Service :Windows RAS Connection :Direct Serial Connection Type : PPP Idle

Re: RAS Connection to Windows NT Server

2000-07-07 Thread jherrera
Hi, do you really need this script? several times it was the problem when i tryed to connect, try doing it with out the script, i think you dont need it if you're only trying to connect by RAS. Jorge - Peru. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe,

Re: CodeWarrior optimizer: incorrect code for simple conditionals

2000-07-07 Thread William Brodie
"Jun-Kiat Lam" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:16486@palm-dev-forum... Actually, it looks like the compiler is generating correct code; it's just that the debugger actually steps through several lines of instructions on that single line I see what has happened. When the

Re: Switch out of greyscale mode for alarms etc ...

2000-07-07 Thread Chris Olson
My bad, the code works fine. I was just recreating the graphic filled form each time (cut paste error!). Now another, related question. POSER is complaining about memory data structure access when I execute the following code: FormPtr formPtr; formPtr = FrmGetActiveForm(); if (formPtr)

Re: Manual install of applications

2000-07-07 Thread Tom Zerucha
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 10:30:43AM -0700, Danny Epstein wrote: 2. The database can determine the length only from the header information (which the documentation in the devzone says). I'm not sure what you're getting at here. The last record or resource in a .prc or .pdb file extends to

Re: DmCreateDatabase

2000-07-07 Thread Dave Lippincott
dmErrAlreadyExists - Original Message - From: "Silvia Brunet" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Palm Developer Forum" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 3:57 PM Subject: DmCreateDatabase I have the following code and function right after the DmCreateDatabase I get an error = 537

Re: ExgDBRead - was Manual install of applications

2000-07-07 Thread Tom Zerucha
One more thing/problem with ExgDBRead: What if the ReadOnly bit is set? I've had problems where something creates a database (when that bit is set in the prc/pdb) and cannot write any records to it, so I get a tiny entry that I have to use some external program to clear the RO bit and delete.

Re: DmCreateDatabase

2000-07-07 Thread Steve Mann
I have the following code and function right after the DmCreateDatabase I get an error = 537 back. I cant find what this error is all about. Convert it to hex to get the error class: oX200; From errorbase.h: #define dmErrorClass0X0200 // Data Manager Subtract the error class (537 - 512

Re: Reset cycling

2000-07-07 Thread Peter Epstein
I've made the mistake of having RomVersionCompatible access a global that contains the ROM version (to avoid fetching it more than once). Just for testing, you might try getting rid of the call to RomVersionCompatible, so your app is doing nothing for non-normal launches, and see if that

Serial Receive Problem

2000-07-07 Thread ckc
I am writing a Palm application that interfaces with another device that has a remote command language via the serial port. I am able to successfully send data to the other device which should respond with the appropriate data. The problem that I am having is that only part of the data is being

RE: RE Converting

2000-07-07 Thread Heather Tufts
Christer, It looks like the resource.frk folder may have been deleted. Did you move/copy the original folder over to a new location to import it? Or did you convert it from it's original location/heirarchy? If you still have a copy of the unconverted project folder, send it to me, and I will

Issue with alarms and IIIe

2000-07-07 Thread Christopher Gilmore
Hi there, I have an app that uses alarms and is running on several IIIe's which I use for development. I changed the batteries in them and when my app would set an alarm, the alarm never occurred. I did a medium reset and the app started working again. Looking back through the list

StrCat

2000-07-07 Thread Farzin Ashraghi
Hi! I'm having problems using StrCat. I want to obtain texOut = "ab". Could you tell me please, what is wrong with this? chars[1]; CharPtr textOut, text1=s, text2=s; text1="a"; text2="b"; textOut=StrCat(textIn, textTemp); Thank you! Farzin -- For information on using the Palm

Re: global variables?

2000-07-07 Thread krollin
If I can't use globals, then what should I do? You *should* be able to use globals under the conditions you've given. It's possible that Poser heuristic for determining what went wrong got confused by some similar action. Use a debugger to figure out what's really going on. -- Keith Rollin

Re: StrCat

2000-07-07 Thread Dave Lippincott
text1 and text2 are set to the same address. 'b' is overwritting 'a' try StrCat(TextIn,"ab"); or s[0] = 'a'; s[1] = 'b'; s[2] = NULL; StrCat(TextIn,s); TextOut = TextIn; // if you must or just use return (StrCat(TextIn,s)); - Original Message - From: "Farzin Ashraghi" [EMAIL

RE: Emulator for hotsynch

2000-07-07 Thread krollin
Good advice, but the article appears to be a little out-of-date. It says that Network Hotsync is available only with Palm OS 3.0 ROMs. This is not correct. It is available with any ROM after that. More current instructions have already been posted in this thread, but are also in the Poser

Re: bits of string

2000-07-07 Thread Jason Dawes
At 01:14 PM 7/7/2000 -0400, you wrote: hey, i want to take a string, and convert it to binary, remove the first and last bit, and have the pointer point to that. anyone know how i can accomplish this??? Convert it to binary? What do you mean by this? Do you mean convert it to a string of

Just some items

2000-07-07 Thread Farzin Ashraghi
Friends: I want to display only some items in a list. Steve Mann kindly sugest me to use "LstSetTopItem" but it only helps displaying the list that start at some point The problem is that you still can scroll up and see the first items. What can I do for hide those first items? HIding the

Re: StrCat

2000-07-07 Thread Richard Burmeister
Another problem with your code: char s[1] only allocates 1 byte for s. To store "ab" you need three bytes for 'a', 'b', and '\0'. - Original Message - From: "Dave Lippincott" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Palm Developer Forum" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 5:07 PM Subject: Re:

Re: How do you update Codewarrior?

2000-07-07 Thread DIAMOND JEFF
I just wanted to thank the many people who responded. Hopefully this will serve others in describing the migration process, since Palm OS 4.0 will hit us all eventually. :) -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Re: Manual install of applications

2000-07-07 Thread Danny Epstein
"Tom Zerucha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:16635@palm-dev-forum... To quote the reference manual: ExgDBRead stops calling the read callback function after it receives the entire database (it knows when it's got it all based on the header information). I'd call this

Re: Just some items

2000-07-07 Thread Steve Mann
The problem is that you still can scroll up and see the first items. What can I do for hide those first items? Sounds like you're using a preconfigured list. if so, there's no way I know of to do what you want using just the standard Palm APIs without some additional code. You can, for

How to find screen memory...

2000-07-07 Thread DIAMOND JEFF
I'm looking for any information on how to find the address of Palm screen memory on the DragonballEZ and the Dragonball. In addition to directly accessing registers I shouldn't I was also wondering if the PalmOShas any semi-supported way of getting the address of screen memory? Thanks for the

Re: How do you update Codewarrior?

2000-07-07 Thread DIAMOND JEFF
Heather Tufts wrote: The updates are embedded in the 3.5 SDK and the Update 1 to the 3.5 SDK. Also, there are a couple of debugger plugins hosted on the Metrowerks Website which you can download for Mac or Windows at ftp://palm:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. Those are all the public updates at this

Re: Need more memory

2000-07-07 Thread Adam Wozniak
What do each of these segment attributes mean? Preloaded Protected Locked Purgeable System Heap -- Adam Wozniak Senior Software Design Engineer Surveyor Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]4548 Broad Street [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need more memory

2000-07-07 Thread krollin
Those are artifacts of use a Mac-targetted IDE for Palm OS development. On the Mac, they attach attributes to resources that the Mac OS Resource Manager heeds. I don't think they have any meaning for Palm OS applications, and don't think they get translated into anything in the .prc file. --

Re: help

2000-07-07 Thread krollin
help o/ I need somebody ... o/ help! o/ Not just anybody... o/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Catching hardware key events

2000-07-07 Thread Derek Kite
How does one catch and handle one of the four application hardware key events? Here is what I would like to do. In my app, I get the addressDB data, plunk it into my records. Then add other stuff, in other fields. I have a menu selection that jumps to the address application, using the

network prefs woes

2000-07-07 Thread Frank Ableson
Hi- I am experiencing a rather strange behavior with changing from one "Service" to another in the network preferences. For example: I set the Service to 'A' Establish my connection without any problems. Disconnect Change to Service 'B'- all off the dialogs now show B's settings correctly,

Re: Serial Communications

2000-07-07 Thread Frank Ableson
Hi Andrew, The serial port is very straight forward to interact with- the PalmOs docs are certainly a good resource- you can also check out Palm Programming by Glenn Bachmann (SAMS) for some detailed samples of serial programming. Regards, Frank Ableson Andrew Lathrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

How Can I Get the Version String?

2000-07-07 Thread Bob Felice
I have the latest version of CW for Palm OS R6 and Constructor for Palm OS 1.5. The version string from the Project Settings in the resouce shows up in the res.h file, but as a comment -- not very useful. Does anyone know how I can programmatically access the Version string? TIA, -- bob --

Re: How Can I Get the Version String?

2000-07-07 Thread krollin
From http://www.escribe.com/computing/pcpqa/m1082.html: MemHandle verRsrc = DmGetResource(verRsc, 1); Or, as Poser (Palm OS Emulator) does it in TrapPatches.cpp: MemHandle strH = ::DmGet1Resource (verRsc, appVersionID); if (strH == NULL) strH = ::DmGet1Resource

CodeWarrior R6 problem with W2000 (W2K)

2000-07-07 Thread ulrich . griesser
I have installed Windows 2000 and run CodeWarrior R6 on it. I already patched the CodeWarrior and also installed SDK 3.5 plus the Update 1 package. But still I have unpredictable!?! problems compiling several applications from the batch/commandline interface to CWR6. idecmd foo.mcp /tfoo /r

Hiding a Label control

2000-07-07 Thread Jim Duffy
Hi there, As a novice to Code Warrior and C, I am trying to have a form load with some of the controls hidden until the user selects a checkbox which then displays the controls. I can get all the controls to hide except for the Label control. I tried nearly all the control functions with many

Manual install of applications

2000-07-07 Thread Yegor Bryukhov
How can I manually install application on Palm ? (for example with my own TCP/IP- or serial- communication program) -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Re: Manual install of applications

2000-07-07 Thread krollin
Probably the best way is to write ExgDBRead callback functions that read the data (formatted as a .prc file) from the TCP or serial stream, and let ExgDB turn it into a database. -- Keith Rollin -- Palm OS Emulator engineer "Yegor Bryukhov" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 07/06/2000 11:41:22 PM