On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Daniel Morais wrote:
> > palm doesn't care about gaming/multimedia :)
>
> Do they realize why Sony devices are so appreciated ?
> Wasn't Palm OS 4 (and then Palm OS 5) supposed to include some
> "multimedia features" ?
sony units kick ass :) but, sony sucks at being "nice
Oliver Steinmeier writes:
>> Then a newer version of the app is released.
>> What strategy should I follow so
>> that the data is not lost when the user
>> replaces the app with the new version?
>
>Todd, I don't think the databases of an application
>will get deleted if you replace the applic
From: "Dharini Iyengar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Is there any availible method to send fake GPS signals to the
> POSE.
> I know this is a realtively simple method to write, but would like to use
> some available method if it already exists.
>
We were planning to write a small C or VB app that copied
Is there any availible method to send fake GPS signals to the
POSE.
I know this is a realtively simple method to write, but would like to use
some available method if it already exists.
Thank you
Regards
Dharini Iyengar
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On Wednesday 10 April 2002 02:44, Danny Epstein wrote:
> WinScreenLock isn't useful for page flipping in games.
It isn't actually, but it can be : just allow us to use the pointer returned
by WinScreenLock and we can take advantage of hardware flipping !
:)
( which is working fine on most col
Agreed, I did not intend to argue it's actually method for doing what it
does.
I was just answering your ? as to what one would use if for.
I use it for it's advertised purpose to 'lock/freeze' the display until I'm
done drawin then get a one-shot draw effect. For that it works, and it
works as
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 01:47, Aaron Ardiri wrote:
> palm doesn't care about gaming/multimedia :)
Do they realize why Sony devices are so appreciated ?
Wasn't Palm OS 4 ( and then Palm OS 5 ) supposed to include some "multimedia
features" ?
>> You mean by using FtrPtrNew, for exemple ? :
Let me see if I can put this debate to rest...
WinScreenLock isn't useful for page flipping in games. We've discussed this
before. However, it is useful for delaying screen updates so that they
appear all at once. This is normally done with a pair of calls to
WinScreenLock. The first copies the s
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 01:57, Matt Disher (TiBook) wrote:
> As far as I can tell it does what it's designed to do... Which is lock the
> screen and prevent updates to the screen for things that take a long time
> to update (say a complicated table that the end users sees refresh it's
> conte
As far as I can tell it does what it's designed to do... Which is lock the
screen and prevent updates to the screen for things that take a long time to
update (say a complicated table that the end users sees refresh it's
contents column by column, row by row)
Locking it gives you a whamo-all at
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Daniel Morais wrote:
> Hi Aaron !
hey daniel :)
> On Tuesday 09 April 2002 19:48, Aaron Ardiri wrote:
> > maybe we are not supposed to allocate two 320x320 16bpp windows? :P
>
> Yes, maybe... and maybe Palm OS 5 should not be presented as an OS
> allowing to use high den
Hi Aaron !
On Tuesday 09 April 2002 19:48, Aaron Ardiri wrote:
> maybe we are not supposed to allocate two 320x320 16bpp windows? :P
Yes, maybe...
...and maybe Palm OS 5 should not be presented as an OS allowing to use high
density screens !
> there are other ways to do this if there is n
I think I wasn't quite clear or correct in my answer and I apologize for it.
We didn't actually implement PPP server, we implemented a simple proxy for
sending/receiving HTTP requests over the USB port; proxy client on the
Windows side receives the requests and makes the actual Internet connectio
> The major suspect is NetLib, since
> Palm doesn't release the source code for it. Do any of the functions in
> NetLib call EvtResetAutoOffTimer()?
Yup: it calls EvtResetAutoOffTimer. I think it's trying to prevent the
device from turning off while it's waiting for data to come in over the
seria
I'm working on my final paper for my masters and wanted to take
a straw poll on current industry software engineering practices.
If you could provide me the following information:
What industry do you work in?
What part of the country/world do you work in?
Your level of
Thanks for all the help Danny. Following your advice I was able to get
procedure alarms working, along with proper deletion protection.
Unfortunately something is still calling EvtResetAutoOffTimer(). I've done a
search through the OS source code and found all occurrences of
EvtResetAutoOffTimer(
At 9:56 AM -0700 4/9/02, Nick Hoggard wrote:
>When I do a profile with POSE then dump the results, the emulator
>crashes with a "fatal internal error", with no error information. A
>profile txt file is produced but it has only headings and no data.
>
>Anyone know what the problem could be?
>
>I'm
> From: Borislav Kolev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Well, we managed to get our own PPP replacement protocol working
> on both sides - Palm and Windows - and it seems to be fine.
Is there any work required on the Palm side? I'd hope that the OS's
built-in PPP interface would automatically try to
Well, we managed to get our own PPP replacement protocol working on both
sides - Palm and Windows - and it seems to be fine.
There are quite a few gotchas, though, and I wouldn't call the solution
"clean"but at least "satisfactory working".
- bobby
-Original Message-
From: Scott Joh
Some form objects support a usable bit. If a form object isn't usable, it
won't accept any events, and it won't appear on the screen. This is
conceptually quite different than simply erasing and drawing a form object.
Erasing the object will make it disappear from the screen, but it won't keep
it
I have been seeing weird things regarding a couple of tables on my form. I searched
through the archives at escribe and I
found an entry that I think can confirm this strange behavior. The message I read was
saying that when having multiple tables
on a form the tblSelectEvent is acting strange
The Popup form is a helper form that helps edit field contents on the
calling form. After the user is 'done' with the helper, they click a "done"
button, which triggers the FrmReturnToForm(0).
Can I 'refresh' the calling form prior to the FrmReturnToForm(0), or is
there an event I can trap somew
I've been using floats and doubles since '97, support has been there since
the beginning. What do you mean by updating fields? Via a conduit or in
the PDB directly?
Any particular reason you have to support OS2.0? There are very few 2.0
devices still in use (at least that haven't been upgraded)
Hi,
I was doing some testing today, and I think I've found a bug in the
Simulator, related to the modifiers field for keyDown events. If I press
Shift + UpArrow in the emulator, I get:
event->data.keyDown.chr = 30
event->data.keyDown.modifiers = 5
but if I do it in the simulator, I get:
event-
At 11:43 AM -0700 4/9/02, Venugopal B wrote:
>Can anyone please tell me whether
>support for Floats and Doubles is provided for all the
>Palm OS's including Palm OS 2.0?
What kind of support are you looking for? There are float and double
types. If you want basic ASCII<-->float conversion routi
> My appl uses considerable time sorting records after a hotsync.
> I like to inform the user about what is happening.
> I want to use an alert.
The HotSync app has its own progress dialog that shows "Cleaning up" while
it does the sysAppLaunchCmdSyncNotify launches. Putting up your own dialog
on
Hi All,
We have a PRC application currently supporting devices
running on Palm OS 3.0 and later. We also have a
conduit and a desktop application. Our desktop
application uses some float and double types and the
PRC needs to be updated with these fields. Also we
would like to support the PRC on d
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Daniel Morais wrote:
> I have done some tests with the latest version of Palm OS Simulator ( dr9 )
> and while it seems I had no trouble to initialize a 320x320 16 bpp screen, I
> was unable to do something with it, as WinCreateOffScreenWindow failed...
>
> First call was fine,
Hello,
Using BmpCompress to compress a screen image then uncompress it to display,
I found out that if the bottom five pixel rows were all blanks, the row
above them will "bleed" onto them. That is, the row above is unwantedly
repeated til the end. The compression type could be either scan l
> From: Stan Chee Keh Yong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Did anyone experience or know how to setup the PPP (Point-to-Point
> Protocol) between Palm m505 (Palm OS) and Windows (95 and 98 and 2000
> Professional) via the USB cable ?
I see you got no response to this earlier, probably because nobody
Hi
I am using CW7 with the latest updates to debug and SDK4 application on
an m505 through the serial cradle with all optimizations off. The
application downloads to the device no problems but everytime it hits a
breakpoint the application hangs on the device and requires a manual
reset. Is thi
Hi !
I have done some tests with the latest version of Palm OS Simulator ( dr9 )
and while it seems I had no trouble to initialize a 320x320 16 bpp screen, I
was unable to do something with it, as WinCreateOffScreenWindow failed...
First call was fine, but the second one failed with a "sysErrN
When I do a profile with POSE then dump the results, the emulator
crashes with a "fatal internal error", with no error information. A
profile txt file is produced but it has only headings and no data.
Anyone know what the problem could be?
I'm using POSE 3.4
_
I've noticed that the Palm OS security auto lock feature doesn't work when
my application is running. I'm running on Palm OS 4.0 (a Clie, but
hopefully that is irrelevant), and it is when the auto lock is set to happen
after a set time period of inactivity that it doesn't work (it works if auto
l
Low Pui Kuen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> May I know is there any website that compares or evaluate the different
> types of palm os development tools?
>
> Thank you
> Low Pui Kuen
This may not include every option, but it shows you some popular choices:
http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/core.html
HTH
At 06:40 PM 8/4/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>The code below fires when I click on a list that is displayed via a pop
>up trigger. If I click on the trigger and select an
>item in the list, on the 14th time I get a chunk overlocked error. (See
>line in question). I am using DmReleaseRecord paired
Lonnie,
Thanks for the info. I'm messing around with this now
and I'm not sure if it will work since I am trying to
detect this via a hack.
Regards,
Mike McCollister
--- Lonnie Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Mike McCollister wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know how to detec
I would use my own dialog that looks like an alert and in my timing code
call CtlHitControl to simulate tapping 'OK'.
- Original Message -
From: "c.d. jansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 6:06 AM
Subject: How to end an al
--- "c.d. jansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I can't find in the examples how to simulate the pushing of the OK
> button.
>
CtlHitControl
Purpose: Simulate tapping a control. This function adds a
ctlSelectEvent
to the event queue.
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Do You
Hi,
May I know is there any website that compares or evaluate the different
types of palm os development tools?
Thank you
Low Pui Kuen
_
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Hi I get your email address from one of the communication forum.
Sorry for interrupt u and I have I can give permission to ask u something in
the connection and communication issue.
I am being assign to develop an application on the PDA. I decide to use the
MIDP for Palm (JAVA) and Palm m
In article <83209@palm-dev-forum>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
> I was looking at the api and it looks like I could use a
> AddEventToQueue call to place an event in into the
> queue.
Look at the description of EvtEnqueueKey -- this is the only event
handling call that disables interrupts while
I think u shud show a Modal form without an ok button.
When u r work starts show that form.
on finish of work post an frmCloseEvent into the event queue.
Do lemme know after trying it whether i am rite.
Regards,
Vikas Lakkashetti
- Original Message -
From: c.d. jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED
Hello,
My appl uses considerable time sorting records after a hotsync.
I like to inform the user about what is happening.
I want to use an alert. The user can use the OK button, or wait till the
sorting is over. When ready, the message have to disappears.
I can't find in the examples how to simu
Ben,
I was looking at the api and it looks like I could use a
AddEventToQueue call to place an event in into the
queue.
Is a user defined event above the 0x6000 considered
a virtual key event?
Are you saying that is not possible while inside an interrupt to place
a user defined event onto the
Good days, all
Did anyone experience or know how to setup the PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)
bween Palm m505 (Palm OS) and Windows (95 and 98 and 2000 Professional) va
the USB cable ?
I try it but it fail because it required the Serial Cable (COM) but i need
to use the USB (to save the company co
In article <83202@palm-dev-forum>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
> I have a interrupt driven serial input routine and want
> to have that place a custom event in the event queue.
>
> Has anybody timed how long in milliseconds the delay
> would be before my routine in a form handler would
> recieve
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