urgent

2001-03-02 Thread Subramanian Babu
i have a .psf file. i have to load it in the handheld or desktop. i have the emulator. how to load and view it. can someone help me in this regard. it is very urgent. - Original Message - From: Walter Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March

Re: Helper Pack for Newbies.

2001-03-02 Thread CBrindis
Great idea! Not hairbrained at all. Please, please move ahead with helpers.h I could really use it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

RE: Determining number of decimal positions

2001-03-02 Thread Martin Elzen
hi all. A while back I also ran into the problem of how to convert floats to strings and back. I was *astounded* to discover the permitted impreciseness required of float in order to be standards conforming (according to "the C language", 2nd edition). FLT_EPSILON = 1e-5 and DBL_EPSILON =

Re: Re[2]: SDK, AppForge, HanDBase, CodeWarrior, etc.

2001-03-02 Thread George Henne
GM if your user data is being stored in a central database, your going to have GM to choose a "conduit" development product in addition to an application GM development product. GM there are several out there. pick one that, first, meets your business GM requirements, and second, allows you to

Re: Palm OS error 0x0201 (dmErrMemError) occured

2001-03-02 Thread Ricardo Costa Contin
Ben very very Tks, BUT do you know how I do this ? I'm a 10 Year programim (PC) but very new at Palm and COdeWarrior. It's a configuration or I have to program multisegment ? Tks Contin - Original Message - From: "Ben Combee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum To: "Palm

RE: Large/Multi-segment app problems

2001-03-02 Thread DeAnna Davidson
JK, Sorry, I was mid message and apparently hit the "send my message right now even though I'm not finished shorcut key." I was going to add that if there were any other way I could help you, let me know and I'd be happy too. DeAnna -Original Message- From: Jun-Kiat Lam [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Large/Multi-segment app problems

2001-03-02 Thread DeAnna Davidson
JK, I'd love to send you my app, but assuming you really mean send you the source code, that's a no-can-do. My boss would kill me :-) If you can DeAnna -Original Message- From: Jun-Kiat Lam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 7:34 PM To: Palm Developer Forum

Re: Launching AvantGo browser programmatically??

2001-03-02 Thread Jeff Ishaq
Anthony, this works for me: #define AG_APPNAME"AvantGo" UInt16 cardNo = 0; LocalID dbID = DmFindDatabase(cardNo, AG_APPNAME); err = SysUIAppSwitch( cardNo, dbID, sysAppLaunchCmdNormalLaunch, someLaunchData ); -Jeff Ishaq "Anthony Randazzo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message

Reading strings

2001-03-02 Thread Phil Hodge
Hi all, I may be asking a stupid question here. I have been having problems modifying strings in other functions and expecting them to be meaningful after that function returns. Please consider the following snippit: code { ... VoidHand sh; CharPtr s; sh = MemHandleNew(SIZE);

Re: Stepping into library code

2001-03-02 Thread Chris Percival
Thanks Terry, I think this was the conclusion I was comming to. There is no 'nice' way to do it... I hope this gets addressed in some later versions of palm/codewarrior stuff. -- Chris Percival www.interaxis.co.uk Chris Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:40986@palm-dev-forum...

Re: Reading strings

2001-03-02 Thread Philip Sheard
VoidHand sh; CharPtr s; sh = MemHandleNew(SIZE); fetch(s,sh); // Now s is garbage and anything that uses it crashes } void fetch(CharPtr s, VoidHand sh) { s = MemHandleLock(sh); StrCopy(s,"custard"); MemHandleUnlock(sh); The problem is that s itself is never getting set in

Resizing the appinfo block

2001-03-02 Thread Marty Rice
Hello all, I've seen this topic pop up once or twice but never with what seemed like a consensus on how to handle it. I have the situation where I want to increase the size of my appinfo block at the beginning of my user database. The first thing the program does is check to see if the database

What preoptimizations for faster downloading of pictures ?

2001-03-02 Thread Fabien Leyral
Hi community ! Is there any way to increase the speed of downloading of pictures of my server from a palm device ? The proxy servers of Palm.net or others "translate" jpeg pictures to permit to display them on a palm device. This work costs a lot of time for users, they're waiting for reply.

Re: Determining number of decimal positions

2001-03-02 Thread Steve Mann
Is there a way I can determine how many decimal positions that float value has? Not as far as I know. Floating point numbers may have infinite precision. For instance, a number like 1.56 may be actually stored as 1.5999. Using simple arithmetic means, you have no way of determining if

Re: change font in a button dynamically

2001-03-02 Thread Steve Mann
How do you change a font (regular) to a bold font in a button object? I have a button with a regular text font in it, then when I tap the button, I want to be able to change the text to bold font text. Is it possible to do such operation? You might be able to use something like this (I never

Re: urgent

2001-03-02 Thread Jason Henderson
Don't get mad at me for responding to an "urgent" message... emulator.exe -psf filename.psf you can find this in the UsingPOSE.pdf documentation under Downloading and Running Palm OS Emulator/Command Line Options. Jason Henderson Software Engineer EagleSoft, A Patterson Co. i have a .psf

Re: WinDrawChars and FrmDoDialog?

2001-03-02 Thread Steve Mann
What do I need to do to get a WinDrawChars call to draw on a FrmDoDialog from? WinDrawChars displays on the form that FrmDoDialog returns to, rather than on it's form. Do a FrmDrawForm for the dialog, then the WinDrawChars, then FrmDoDialog. That should work. Regards, Steve Mann --

Choose between NetLib and INetLib?

2001-03-02 Thread Ioi Lam
Hi, What's the preferred way for the user to choose between NetLib and INetLib? Say the user has a PalmVII with Palm.Net, but it's also attached to a wireless modem with another ISP. When the user wants to connect to www.yahoo.com, how does he tell my app whether to use Palm.Net or the modem?

Re: beaming multiple DB's

2001-03-02 Thread Sören Henkel
Chad Harrison schrieb: If you need to support Palm OS 3.5 and older, your best bet is to beam a single archive containing all the databases, compressed or not. If you know that your app exists on the receiving device, you can have it break apart the archive into its constituent

rom file

2001-03-02 Thread Paul Wilcox
hi, I am using the SPT1700 handheld and using codewarrior and I need a ROM file for debugging, can anyone point me in the right direction?. I have tried to download it from the handheld, but it didn't work (error #773). I have also tried to get one from the palm website, but it will take at least

Handspring module insertion detection by 'extern' app

2001-03-02 Thread Danko Radic
How to detect Handspring module insertion by an application residing in Visor memory, not on the module? Suppose I have an application in Visor memory that is using the module in some way (GlenAyre pager). When inserted, module installs its default apps and overwrites all the 'registrations'

Handspring module insertion detection by 'extern' app

2001-03-02 Thread Danko Radic
How to detect Handspring module insertion by an application residing in Visor memory, not on the module? Suppose I have an application in Visor memory that is using the module in some way (GlenAyre pager). When inserted, module installs its default apps and overwrites all the 'registrations'

Re: SDK, AppForge, HanDBase, CodeWarrior, etc.

2001-03-02 Thread Jim Cooper
I might be biased, but NS Basic/Palm should really be on your list as well: And you can write your conduit in Delphi, either with our stuff or these components : Paul Gilbert's components http://www.whyzero.com/~paul/ ConduitDB http://www.envicon.de Our's and Envicon's

Localizing an Application

2001-03-02 Thread Sanjay R. Patel
We are trying to develop an application that will be used in several different countries: US, Japan (for Japan, I know we need to deal with multi-byte characters). I have looked at the Localized Applications section of the PalmOS Programmer's Companion. I was wondering if anyone had some sample

Opinions..

2001-03-02 Thread Robert Chartier
I was wondering if someone could share a bit of experience with me. Im a newbie in the Palm Dev world, and basically was looking around for a way in which I can begin developing applications. Are there any Freeware compilers? Ive seen GCC, is this available for Win32 (W2k)? Are there any

Emulator over the USB for Handspring

2001-03-02 Thread NovElectMkt
Have CW 6.0, a Handspring Prism. After defining in CW that I will be using the device to debug, running the debugger asks me to put the device in debug mode. I turn the Prism on while on the cradle, go to the main menu and type the debug sequence: the shortcut symbol, two taps and the number 2.

Palm OS error 0x0201 (dmErrMemError) occured

2001-03-02 Thread Stringer
Subject: Palm OS error 0x0201 (dmErrMemError) occured From: "Ricardo Contin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 19:45:06 -0300 My app is growing up and works fine with 70K size of prc Now I'm about 85K and links OK but when I try to load at POSE I receive this message: Could not install

RE: Emulator over the USB for Handspring

2001-03-02 Thread Randy Maxwell
Here is a trick I _always_ use to be sure the Palm device is in Debug mode: Tap on the Find icon. Enter the shortcut . . 2 sequence as the find text. IF you enter the Debug sequence correctly then as soon as the 2 is entered the entire string is erased. Start the Debug session (I always

How to Get Hotsync User Name At Palm

2001-03-02 Thread Wang Yan-FYA009
Hi, group, How my palm program can get the hotsync user name? Actually, my program just need a name to identify user. The ower's name will be okay too. But maybe lots of people will not put the ower name there. Thanks! Yan -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to

Re: Resizing the appinfo block

2001-03-02 Thread scott jacobs
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 08:53:55AM -0500, Marty Rice wrote: Hello all, I've seen this topic pop up once or twice but never with what seemed like a consensus on how to handle it. Marty, I had the same trouble finding in the archives a clear solution to the problem of resizing the appinfo

Re: Opinions..

2001-03-02 Thread Randy Brown
Check into DevStudio at: http://www.falch.net Great IDE that uses the GCC toolset. [rb} At 12:54 PM 03/02/2001 -0500, Robert Chartier wrote: I was wondering if someone could share a bit of experience with me. Im a newbie in the Palm Dev world, and basically was looking around for a way

Re: rom file

2001-03-02 Thread Gary Miller
Symbol makes the SPT1700 series of handheld scanners. They have the ROMs on their site. You can get them if you fill out an online form and accept their license agreement. "Paul Wilcox" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:41420@palm-dev-forum... hi, I am using the SPT1700 handheld and

Re: @stake Advisory: Palm OS Password Lockout Bypass (A030101-1)

2001-03-02 Thread Gary Miller
Yeah. We'll identify the thieves cuz they will be buying large quantities of batteries... :P "Dave Lippincott" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:41341@palm-dev-forum... Not this again. Next they'll be posting a warning about being able to use IR enabled Palms to unlock your car doors.

Re: @stake Advisory: Palm OS Password Lockout Bypass (A030101-1)

2001-03-02 Thread Philip Sheard
Not this again. Next they'll be posting a warning about being able to use IR enabled Palms to unlock your car doors. There was a great one a while back claiming that a Palm could hack into a network via an IR printer. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to

My Mistake (was RE: Determining number of decimal positions)

2001-03-02 Thread Richard Burmeister
From: Ben Combee Huh? CW honors the \0 escape for both character literals and strings. I should know -- I rewrote a lot of that escape parsing code. You might be confused by the debugger display. When the CW debugger shows a string, it will show it in escaped C string format, although

RE: Urgent!!!

2001-03-02 Thread Jason Partyka
If I may make a suggestion, can the URLs to the archives be appended to list information tag that's at the bottom of every mail sent through the list? Maybe that will help to cut down the number of "urgent" postings. I suspect many of those people who post "urgent" are unaware of the archives.

RE: Constructor/Bitmaps/Link Errors

2001-03-02 Thread Heather KML Tufts
By the way, I was at PalmSource2000 and I have the 4.0 tools CD which is where I copied PalmRezPostLinker.dll from. Should I copy the rest of the CodeWarrior support files? I am a running version 7.0 of CodeWarrior. If you are using release 7, copy ONLY the PalmRezPostLinker.dll and

RE: Large/Multi-segment app problems

2001-03-02 Thread Heather KML Tufts
I have a large ( 360k ) app that I have been working on for quite some time without problems. However, within the last day I can no longer debug the application on the palm. Every time I attempt to debug the app I get the following error: "Failed to upload application to Pilot

RE: Small icon for application in List view

2001-03-02 Thread Heather KML Tufts
Thanks, Ben. I hadn't realized that I was running the older version of Constructor. However, when I try to open my resource file with 1.5 I get a memory error and Constructor hangs so bad that I can't even shut it down with Win2K's task manager. Is there a patch I need to find and

RE: application log

2001-03-02 Thread Heather KML Tufts
*** CmdReadRemoteMem: error in SlkReceivePacket = Serial Link timeout. Trying to Read address 0x1F00 CmdReadRemoteMem: error in SlkReceivePacket = Serial Link timeout. Trying to Read address 0x2000 *** When i'm debugging, i can see this in the "log for "application.prc"

RE: Memory leaks

2001-03-02 Thread Heather KML Tufts
I'd mentioned all this in a previous discussion, but since I also have a P3/800 with W98SE, the coincidence was too much to resist. :) First question - are you using CodeWarrior 7? dammit, for the first time i understand how to use this hd 0 and it gives my machine a fatal

RE: Debugging on device with CW R7

2001-03-02 Thread Heather KML Tufts
Maybe I just haven't done it in a long time and I've forgotten, but does downloading to the device for debugs seem unusually slow in R7 to anyone else? It is a bit slower. We are working to improve the download speed, without sacrificing any of the additional stability that slowdown

RE: Emulator over the USB for Handspring

2001-03-02 Thread Heather KML Tufts
Have CW 6.0, a Handspring Prism. After defining in CW that I will be using the device to debug, running the debugger asks me to put the device in debug mode. I turn the Prism on while on the cradle, go to the main menu and type the debug sequence: the shortcut symbol, two taps and the

Choose between NetLib and INetLib?

2001-03-02 Thread Ioi Lam
Hi, What's the preferred way for the user to choose between NetLib and INetLib? Say the user has a PalmVII with Palm.Net, but it's also attached to a wireline modem with the serial port. When the user wants to connect to www.yahoo.com, how should he tell my app whether to use Palm.Net or the

Re: Determining number of decimal positions

2001-03-02 Thread John Marshall
Ben Combee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh? CW honors the \0 escape for both character literals and strings. I should know -- I rewrote a lot of that escape parsing code. [...] The problem here is actually that the user is specifying a string of 11 characters -- even with the escaped NULs,

stable hot synch environment

2001-03-02 Thread Laor, Boaz
does anyone have any suggestion on how to succefully set up an enviornment in which the hot synch works consistantly? we've been having problems with the synch timing out and any clean installation of operating system and just basically a fresh win 2000 pc has not seemed to work properly. what

Sony Memory stick autorun file problems

2001-03-02 Thread news.palmos.com
Hello Has anybody had any success with the sony memory stick autorun? I have a file called DEFAULT.ARN stored in /PALM/LM It is saved with CRLF linefeeds It has the minimal info in it. I stick it in the Sony, (the apps are stored in /PALM/MSFILES), the device boops, and that's it. Are there

Re: CW7 Always Crash When Compile

2001-03-02 Thread Jim Duffy
You also need to copy "PPalmRez.dll" from the Preference Panel directory on the 4.0 CD. This version should be 4,5,2,0 If that doesn't work, try going to the bitmap you are adding or editing and changing a single pixel and then changing it back. Then compile. If it still doesn't work, try

Re: Choose between NetLib and INetLib?

2001-03-02 Thread Ben Combee
"Ioi Lam" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:41475@palm-dev-forum... Hi, What's the preferred way for the user to choose between NetLib and INetLib? Say the user has a PalmVII with Palm.Net, but it's also attached to a wireline modem with the serial port. When the user wants to

Re: Determining number of decimal positions

2001-03-02 Thread Ben Combee
"John Marshall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:41474@palm-dev-forum... Ben Combee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh? CW honors the \0 escape for both character literals and strings. I should know -- I rewrote a lot of that escape parsing code. [...] The problem here is actually that

Re: Stepping into library code

2001-03-02 Thread Ben Combee
"Chris Percival" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:41404@palm-dev-forum... Thanks Terry, I think this was the conclusion I was comming to. There is no 'nice' way to do it... I hope this gets addressed in some later versions of palm/codewarrior stuff. There is a nice way -- I'm not

Re: WinDrawChars and FrmDoDialog?

2001-03-02 Thread Ben Combee
"Steve Mann" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:41413@palm-dev-forum... What do I need to do to get a WinDrawChars call to draw on a FrmDoDialog from? WinDrawChars displays on the form that FrmDoDialog returns to, rather than on it's form. Do a FrmDrawForm for the dialog, then the

Re: Stepping into library code

2001-03-02 Thread Jun-Kiat Lam
Here's a repost of an email I sent that didnt seem to get through: I lost track of the original problem, but are you stepping into a shared library or static library? If you want to step into a static library, then just as an experiment try this to see if the same thing happens here: try

Re: rom file

2001-03-02 Thread Brian Mathis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Gary Miller wrote: Symbol makes the SPT1700 series of handheld scanners. They have the ROMs on their site. You can get them if you fill out an online form and accept their license agreement. "Paul Wilcox" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message

RE: Handspring module insertion detection by 'extern' app

2001-03-02 Thread Makamine
Hi Danko, One possibility is to trap an event that is generated when a module is inserted or removed. This is a key event with the following value defined in HsExt.h. // card removed or inserted (This is in HsExt.h) #define hsChrCardStatusChg(hsChrRangeMin+6)

Looking for an NZ Handspring distributor

2001-03-02 Thread Chris Tutty
Hi, My apologies for interrupting the discussion with this message, but I'm running out of ideas. I am located in New Zealand and have been given a Handspring Visor and custom device to write some software for but have *not* been given a hotsync cable (well, the (engineer) client has rewired

Re: stable hot synch environment

2001-03-02 Thread Dave Lippincott
I use a similar system to test and never had any problems with Hotsync. I'd make sure your hardware and/or drivers are setup properly and up to date. - Original Message - From: "Laor, Boaz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Palm Developer Forum" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 9:16

Re: Opinions..

2001-03-02 Thread Dave Lippincott
http://www.palmos.com/dev/gettingstarted.html - Original Message - From: "Robert Chartier" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Palm Developer Forum" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 12:54 PM Subject: Opinions.. I was wondering if someone could share a bit of experience with me. Im

Re: Urgent!!!

2001-03-02 Thread Dave Lippincott
What makes you think that the same developers would follow another link? Most don't read the one already at the bottom that can lead them to tons of useful info. If you click on the one already on the bottom of most messages and read the page, the 'Support' link (the first blue word) will take

Re: How to Get Hotsync User Name At Palm

2001-03-02 Thread Dave Lippincott
http://oasis.palm.com/dev/kb/faq/1043.cfm - Original Message - From: "Wang Yan-FYA009" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Palm Developer Forum" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 1:44 PM Subject: How to Get Hotsync User Name At Palm Hi, group, How my palm program can get the hotsync

Re[2]: SDK, AppForge, HanDBase, CodeWarrior, etc.

2001-03-02 Thread Corobori
Hello Walter, Thursday, March 01, 2001, 21:40:07, you wrote: From what I've read, Satellite Forms might be a good solution. Perhaps but its cost is already behind what my customer is willing to pay for my development ! jean-luc -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to

How to update appl database with a different creator?

2001-03-02 Thread Samson Chen
How can I read/write programs/database that its creator is different. When I use DmOpenDatabaseByTypeCreator() with the target name, type and creator. I can obtain the LocalID and database open reference. If I run DmQueryRecord(), it seems normal to acquire the MemHandle. But when I lock it, a

Invalid Field Length

2001-03-02 Thread Torihana Arukas
Hi all I have a form with one non-editable Field control and one editable Field control(aka, edit ctrl). when a form first loaded on the screen, there is no focus on the edit control. I started type then realized that I need to click on editable edit control to get focus. Here comes the

No symbol in current text ???

2001-03-02 Thread Samson Chen
I got a weird problem. Sometimes I use gdb will get an error "No symbol '...' in current text" when I print or display that variable. Not every variable will get that response. Some vars are normal. I try to remake the project, but still same. I don't know why? My environment is gdb 4.17.1 for

Re: bleeding outside of table selection

2001-03-02 Thread Timothy Astle
Okay, I believe I figured it out. Instead of using a textTableItem, I used a customTableItem and used a technique shown in the Expense.c example. It seems to fix the "selection bleeding" on the table on the v3.3 roms. (Note: As far as I know this only shows on the Emulator, because my Palm is

Re: bleeding outside of table selection

2001-03-02 Thread Ben Combee
"Timothy Astle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:41520@palm-dev-forum... Okay, I believe I figured it out. Instead of using a textTableItem, I used a customTableItem and used a technique shown in the Expense.c example. It seems to fix the "selection bleeding" on the table on the

RE: Urgent!!!

2001-03-02 Thread Eric Robson
Hey, I remember you from Grand Blanc. Aren't you all glad you now know this? -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Install Tool

2001-03-02 Thread Hans Han
Hi All, I've parctised many install tools for Palm Applications. After we perform it , all needed prc, pdb are copied to install diectory of current user . How can they do it? -Hans ~Šjž‰)jYƒz—Šš+‹r›z™^jymŸ )jYœ‡.š+

Re: How to prevent select one row in a table?

2001-03-02 Thread Edward Ye
Thanks. Actually what I am doing is mimic addressbook behaviour . Strangly enough, if two columns of last row are all customTableItem, when I tap any textTableItem cell, the whole row is hilighted and the text field is selected. and if the two columns of last row is customTableItem and

RE: Choose between NetLib and INetLib?

2001-03-02 Thread Randy Maxwell
"...In both cases, INetLib is used..." This is not quite true for Palm OS before 4.0 (and maybe 4.0 as well). I have worked on an app that could do both modem using NetLib and Palm VII wireless using INetLib. The app would detect the Palm HW capability and show either an info GUI (Label in a

HotSync Network Port?

2001-03-02 Thread Matt Mason
Can anyone tell me what port the HotSync uses on a Network sync? I am trying to enable my proxy server/firewall (winProxy) and am not sure which port to open. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Error C2060002 with PQA

2001-03-02 Thread Ralph Krausse
I know this isn't the best forum but I thought I would ask anyhow.We just finished developing a site. It seems to work fine with the emulator and the Palm 7 ROMS but once we actually go wireless on a Handspring with an OmniSky modem, it breaks. We get to our login screen, enter in the correct

Re: Error C2060002 with PQA

2001-03-02 Thread Ben Combee
"Ralph Krausse" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:41537@palm-dev-forum... I know this isn't the best forum but I thought I would ask anyhow.We just finished developing a site. It seems to work fine with the emulator and the Palm 7 ROMS but once we actually go wireless on a

RE: Opinions..

2001-03-02 Thread Stuart Nicholson
GCC is available for Windows and works quite nicely under 95/98/NT with the PalmOS emulator (that allows you to emulate Palm devices on your PC, Macintosh or Unix box). The GCC port for PalmOS is fully featured and includes a command line source code debugger and should be used in conjunction