Re: About the string function.!!

StrNCopy() with string-ptr + offset and number of chars. But don't forget to terminate the resulting string from StrNCopy() with a 0-char. Henk Susan wrote: Hi, Thank you very much for the reply. But if I want to get the last three number or the mid numbers of the string, in CASL,I can use

bitmap Resource handling in OS 5 vs OS 4

Hi everyone, I have a Scratch Pad kind of a application written in CW which writes a on-screen bitmap (user drawn) to a seperate resource file and later on read from the file and display it. My app works fine in OS 4 and under and it has been using for long without any any issue. But the app

smooth line on a plam

Hi all I'm working on a paint application in palm. To draw curved lines I get pen move positions and link them with straight lines on a fly. But the lines are not smooth as expected. Is there another stratergy to draw curved lines smoothly (on a fly) ? Is there a way to get more pen move events

Re: smooth line on a plam

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 08:50, DNR wrote: I'm working on a paint application in palm. To draw curved lines I get pen move positions and link them with straight lines on a fly. But the lines are not smooth as expected. Is there another stratergy to draw curved lines smoothly (on a fly) ? Is

Re: VFS Volume error

I'm having some intermittent problems with VFS. Under certain conditions (that I have not been able to reproduce) I am receiving error code vfsErrVolumeBadRef from calls to VFSFileOpen(). I obtain the VFS Volume number from a enumeration on the card. I complete the enumeration and once the

Re: bitmap Resource handling in OS 5 vs OS 4

The code you gave below for writing the bitmap makes several invalid assumptions about the bitmap format. Read up more about OS5 in general and PACE in particular to understand why what you're doing won't work. (PACE is the 68k emulator layer responsible for running your 68k-based app on the

File stream ???

Hello, I would like to save informations for my app on my palm. I would like to use FileOpen, FileRead and FileWrite to do that, but it looks like the datas are not persistant when I quit my application. When I restart my app, and do an FileOpen and FileRead, I don't read the datas I write in

Question about the use of CW8...

Hello, I use CW to make mya pplication, but I find that it is a little boring to use it.. I explain: In debug mode with my Plam, I must make the Shortcut..2 each time I want to debug on the target ? is it possible to force this mode at the first time... and only one time? When I call the Help

Memory allocation

Hi, Is there a way to allocate memory on the storage heap ? It works on the emulator but not on a real device perhaps due to unlocked storage heap (on Simulator it's possible to lock/unlock it). Thanks Chris -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Lots of forms

Is there any limit to the number of forms a prc can have? We're having odd reports of flakiness when there are more than about 35 forms in a project. The most we've seen is 71 forms, which seemed to work OK on any Palm with more than 2 megs. I haven't seen any documented limits. George Henne

Re: Memory allocation

At 12:21 2003-1-29 +0100, you wrote: Hi, Is there a way to allocate memory on the storage heap ? DmNewHandle It works on the emulator but not on a real device perhaps due to unlocked storage heap (on Simulator it's possible to lock/unlock it). This will work on any device running Palm OS

Re: Question about the use of CW8...

At 11:24 2003-1-29 +0100, you wrote: Hello, I use CW to make mya pplication, but I find that it is a little boring to use it.. I explain: In debug mode with my Plam, I must make the Shortcut..2 each time I want to debug on the target ? is it possible to force this mode at the first time... and

Re: Memory allocation

Ok, i was talking about allocating memory using MemChunkNew with storage heap ID. This works on emulator but not on real device. I need to have a pointer access. - Original Message - From: Ben Combee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January

Re: Memory allocation

Ok, i was talking about allocating memory using MemChunkNew with storage heap ID. This works on emulator but not on real device. I need to have a pointer access. tell me a good reason why you need to allocate so much memory? i have been involved in a number of 'high memory' demanding

Re: NetLibSelect needs a UI event to realise there's also some socketdata to read

NetLibSelect() should work in a real device, however sysFileDescStdIn is not supported in the Palm Emulator. Would you like to try to use macros and try again? For example, netFDZero() netFDSet() netFDIsSet() sysFileDescStdIn You may also want to refer to the standard codes in the Palm OS

Re: Memory allocation

I'm porting a app to palmos. - Original Message - From: Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 1:40 PM Subject: Re: Memory allocation Ok, i was talking about allocating memory using MemChunkNew with storage heap

Re: Memory allocation

I'm porting a app to palmos. doesn't tell us much - does it? --- Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] CEO - CTO +46 70 656 1143 Mobile Wizardry http://www.mobilewizardry.com/ -- For information on using

Re: File stream ???

I would like to save informations for my app on my palm. I would like to use FileOpen, FileRead and FileWrite to do that, but it looks like the datas are not persistant when I quit my application. When I restart my app, and do an FileOpen and FileRead, I don't read the datas I write

Re: Memory allocation

I'm currently porting ScummVM to palmos and some games need lots of memory to work (not really lot but more than the dynamic heap) I don't want to change all the code accessing memory pointers to DmNewHandle/DmWrite but it seems this is not possible because storage heap is write protected. -

Re: Memory allocation

I'm not sure but isn't it possible to malloc more than 64KB in storage memory using the feature memory functions? I'm currently developping a media player for palms (MP1,2,3/WMA audio and later hopefully MPEG1-2-4 video and a JPEG-2000 image viewer (j2000.org)) and I need to malloc more than 150KB

Re: Memory allocation

I'm currently porting ScummVM to palmos and some games need lots of memory to work (not really lot but more than the dynamic heap) I don't want to change all the code accessing memory pointers to DmNewHandle/DmWrite but it seems this is not possible because storage heap is write protected.

building native ARM apps

Hello, Does anyone know if Palm plans to enable developpers to build native ARM apps without having to call ARMlets from 68k code in the near future? It would be a lot more easier to have the whole app built into native ARM code than having to separate the most time-critical sections. David

Re: Memory allocation

I'm not sure but isn't it possible to malloc more than 64KB in storage memory using the feature memory functions? I'm currently developping a media player for palms (MP1,2,3/WMA audio and later hopefully MPEG1-2-4 video and a JPEG-2000 image viewer (j2000.org)) and I need to malloc more

Re: building native ARM apps

Does anyone know if Palm plans to enable developpers to build native ARM apps without having to call ARMlets from 68k code in the near future? It would be a lot more easier to have the whole app built into native ARM code than having to separate the most time-critical sections. will

RE: PEF-Talk

Subject: [off-topic] PEF-Talk mailing list? From: Ron Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone here know what happened to the PEF-Talk mailing list? (Palm OS Entrepreneurs Forum). Is it live? I haven't seen anything in a couple weeks. I e-mailed this question to Brian about a week ago and he

Re: Memory allocation

you *could* avoid the DmWrite procedure using MemSemaphoreReserve and MemSemaphoreRelease API's - but, they stop working on OS5+ however, on these devices, there are more memory. be very careful using these API's i am sure someone at palm is cringing in their seats for me even mentioning

Re: Question about the use of CW8...

Thanks for these asnwers but : Is it normal that my palm reset when I kill de debuger on my PC ? is there a way to stop debugging properly wihtout reseting? About the Help file, if I launch it manualy, I don't have the cursor problem but I can not press F1 an be directly moved on the right page,

Re: Palm VII RS232 Situation

Now you need to make extensive use of some details. What exactly do you mean by 'a bid dodgy', and don't spare the details. Don't forget to include any other details that might help describe your problem. (if I figure out where to use the word 'details' more, I'll post it. ;-) - Original

Re: replication development for the palm

http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/ - Original Message - From: jorge gamas ortiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:02 PM Subject: replication development for the palm Hi I'm new develeping for the palm, but I have made

Re: building native ARM apps

It's hard to imagine for me to have 99% of my code being native ARM. How do you handle global data in your application? I was thinking of porting to ARM various codecs I developped int he past (I implemented fast H263 and mpeg-4 coders/decoders for the opencodex.com contest a couple of years ago)

Re: Memory allocation

No I don't need write access, only read-only data will be stored there (.text section). Actually, at first, I wasn't aware of the feature memory capability of allocating more than 64KB and had to chop the code in various small 64KB modules, which was quite cumbersome. David Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL

Re: building native ARM apps

It's hard to imagine for me to have 99% of my code being native ARM. How do you handle global data in your application? simple. dont use globals :) it all comes back to that design question. --- Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] CEO - CTO

Re: Question about the use of CW8...

One more point... If your editor window does not have focus, and you can't see the cursor, just click on the title bar of the window, which will bring back the focus without the risk of losing the position of the cursor. --On Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:24 AM +0100 Rodolphe Bréjaude

game timings

I read information about maintaining intervals of frames in a game constant in the knowledge base months ago. But I can't find that article (about game, animation, input timings) any more. Could anyone help please? -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe,

Re: Double buffering

(Somewhat related) I observer on some licensee devices (such as Sony Clie's) that if I turn down the brightness then I can see a (quite annoying) flicker on the screen as well (at full power there is no observable flicker). Especially noticeable on the T615C (at least my T615C), but also

Issue with drawing bitmaps on some Sony devices

Hello: I've recently added color support to my software (using only basic OS 3.5 API functionality), and I'm getting some users reporting strange screen drawing problems on certain Sony devices, specifically the T615C. I've seen some postings here indicating that this is a known hardware bug,

RE: VFS Volume error

Nicholas Pleis wrote: I'm having some intermittent problems with VFS. Under certain conditions (that I have not been able to reproduce) I am receiving error code vfsErrVolumeBadRef from calls to VFSFileOpen(). ... Under certain circumstances (The closest I've come to reproducing it is

Re: VFS Volume error

Just a Question on VFS : Is it possible to create file with VFS on the Palm itself, not in the SD card? Thanks - Original Message - From: Jeff Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 4:44 PM Subject: RE: VFS Volume error

Re: building native ARM apps

In article 111050@palm-dev-forum, Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if Palm plans to enable developpers to build native ARM apps without having to call ARMlets from 68k code in the near future? It would be a lot more easier to have the whole app built into native

Re: Setting text to a Field

This is a roundabout answer, but Palm is offering an online training course Expert Case Studies -- free until Feb 28, 2003. I went through it and there's a function (source code included) that answers your question: void SetFieldText(FieldType *pFld, Char *pSrcStr, Boolean fDrawNow) Visit:

Re: building native ARM apps

Aaron, are you sure of this? If I recall correctly, the NetFront webbrowser that Sony ships with their OS 5 devices is completely ARM native. I don't believe it had a 'code' resources. I don't think that normal developers can develop ARM native applications, but apparently the NetFront

Re: building native ARM apps

Is there some particular reason for this? Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:111082@palm-dev-forum... 3rd party native wont happen. --- Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] CEO - CTO +46 70 656 1143 Mobile

simplest way to grab screenshots

Hello, Does anyone know what's the easiest way to grab screenshots under OS5 (high density)? Is there a way to do this from the simulator (couldn't find it in the menu)? thanks, David -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Re: building native ARM apps

Is there some particular reason for this? the core to OS5 is PACE. developers program to API routines, and, they are handled by the PACE layer on the ARM platform. building a native ARM application would require knowledge of the native API locations (i dont see header files available - do

Re: simplest way to grab screenshots

Does anyone know what's the easiest way to grab screenshots under OS5 (high density)? Is there a way to do this from the simulator (couldn't find it in the menu)? [alt][prt scr] standard windows(tm) shortcut :) if you did this on the emu, you'll even get the skin *ooers* - something the menu

Menu error

All, I am getting the following error when I try to bring up a menu on my main form. - UIResource.c Line 231: Menu rsrc not found. This particular menu worked fine before I upgraded to CW9. I changed my app to an expanded app as well. I verified that the menu is in fact in one of my

Re: building native ARM apps

Thanks for the explanation. (But what I don't understand is how licensees can build native apps then. And if they can, what is the reason (be it technical or commercial) that regular developpers can't). David Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:111086@palm-dev-forum... Is

Re: building native ARM apps

Thanks for the explanation. (But what I don't understand is how licensees can build native apps then. And if they can, what is the reason (be it technical or commercial) that regular developpers can't). they can rebuild the rom - and, have full access to everything. if you use the developer

Can I not generate a UniqueID from within a Conduit?

Hi, The SyncWriteRec Doc says.. • You can overwrite an existing record by specifying its record ID. • You can add a new record by supplying 0 as the record ID. Note that the application on the handheld is responsible for assigning new record IDs. does it really mean there is no way to assign a

Re: About the string function.!!

Susan wrote: But if I want to get the last three number or the mid numbers of the string, in CASL,I can use the right or mid function. How can I accomplish this? If you like using those functions, you should probably write them yourself. eh, I'll get you started. left is just functionizing

Re: smooth line on a plam

Sounds like splines or bezier curves... Henk DNR wrote: Hi all I'm working on a paint application in palm. To draw curved lines I get pen move positions and link them with straight lines on a fly. But the lines are not smooth as expected. Is there another stratergy to draw curved lines

RE: VFS Volume error

Rodolphe Bréjaude wrote: Is it possible to create file with VFS on the Palm itself, not in the SD card? No, not that I know of. VFS provides access to a file system on storage cards, not what I call main memory. Jeff -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to

Re: Memory allocation

Hi, Aaron Ardiri wrote: be very careful using these API's i am sure someone at palm is cringing in their seats for me even mentioning them here :) mis-use of these API's (ie: wild pointers) can render a device useless. I'm asking myself how it will work to render the device useless. Even that

Re: Memory allocation

be very careful using these API's i am sure someone at palm is cringing in their seats for me even mentioning them here :) mis-use of these API's (ie: wild pointers) can render a device useless. I'm asking myself how it will work to render the device useless. Even that any hard reset

Re: simplest way to grab screenshots

hm, I remember it is [prt scr] without [alt] also on my german keyboard... Btw, the screenshot can then be found in the clipboard. Henk Aaron Ardiri wrote: Does anyone know what's the easiest way to grab screenshots under OS5 [alt][prt scr] --

Re: Memory allocation

Strange world, why didn't they put a small mask rom inside the flash-rom devices just with a small flash-rom writing routine... But I guess you could probably connect a killed device to SDS using the debug pins of the dragonball? Henk Aaron Ardiri wrote: mask rom devices are the only safe

Re: Installing exchange library fails on OS5

Hi, I'm just about to start writing an exchange library, and I have some questions about getting started... - I'm confused about the CW9 project settings for the library and app that are built by the host transfer project. The project builds both a host transfer library and host transfer test

Question on highlighting text

I am hoping this is a newbie question in regards to the palm api. two questions: 1)I am interested in having some words or phrases in controls (grid,table,list,text,multiline) highlighted (either reverse highlight or a specific color, color would be bst). Do I need to create a custom control

Re: Question on highlighting text

1)I am interested in having some words or phrases in controls (grid,table,list,text,multiline) highlighted (either reverse highlight or a specific color, color would be bst). Do I need to create a custom control to do this or is there something built-in for this already? Have to do an owner

RE: simplest way to grab screenshots

If I remember, alt prints the active window while the alt-less prt scr prints the entire screen... or something like that -Original Message- From: Henk Jonas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:09 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: simplest way to

RTF control

Are there any RTF controls for the Palm? We don't want to have to write our own if we don't have to. Thanks Todd -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: simplest way to grab screenshots

Thus spake David Janssens in news:111084@palm-dev-forum: Hello, Does anyone know what's the easiest way to grab screenshots under OS5 (high density)? From the device, there's at least Screenshot5 from LinkeSoft (no affiliation other than being a satisfied customer). I'd guess there are

Re: Question on highlighting text

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Matthew Henry wrote: 1)I am interested in having some words or phrases in controls (grid,table,list,text,multiline) highlighted (either reverse highlight or a specific color, color would be bst). Do I need to create a custom control to do this or is there something

Self modifying app icon

I have an application that can be used for 2 separate purposes depending on how it is configured. Is there any way to have the app change its own icon via code. I am trying to avoid having to compile one version, edit the resource in Constructor, then compile another version for each release.

Re: Question on highlighting text

Lesse, digging through some of my code on my form initialization function TblSetCustomDrawProcedure(table, 0, CardList::DrawItem); and later // This is a static class function, but could just as easily be a global function. void CardList::DrawItem(VoidPtr table, Int row, Int column,

Re: simplest way to grab screenshots

If I remember, alt prints the active window while the alt-less prt scr prints the entire screen... or something like that [ctrl] --- Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] CEO - CTO +46 70 656 1143 Mobile Wizardry

Re: Self modifying app icon

In codewarrior, create two separate targets. One includes the resource with one icon. The other with the other icon. David Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:15@palm-dev-forum... I have an application that can be used for 2 separate purposes depending on how it is configured.

Re: smooth line on a plam

Do a search for graphic gems, and you will find tons of routines for curve smoothing. The palm may not be able to process them fast enough on the fly though. What I ended up doing was just optimizing the hell out of the draw capture routine which used a gadget which resutled in relatively smooth

Can I not generate a UniqueID from within a Conduit?

does it really mean there is no way to assign a uniqueID to a record within a conduit and send it to the Device then? I don't think you can. You can, however, read the record index out of the newly created record in case your conduit wanted to know what unique ID was created on the HH side by

Re: Question about the use of CW8...

At 14:31 2003-1-29 +0100, you wrote: Thanks for these asnwers but : Is it normal that my palm reset when I kill de debuger on my PC ? is there a way to stop debugging properly wihtout reseting? Yes, it is normal. The debugger resets the device in order to get it to leave debug mode.

Re: simplest way to grab screenshots

At 18:09 2003-1-29 +0100, you wrote: Hello, Does anyone know what's the easiest way to grab screenshots under OS5 (high density)? Is there a way to do this from the simulator (couldn't find it in the menu)? ScreenShotHack 5 is a new version of ScreenShotHack written to use Palm OS 5

Re: building native ARM apps

At 18:24 2003-1-29 +0100, you wrote: Thanks for the explanation. (But what I don't understand is how licensees can build native apps then. And if they can, what is the reason (be it technical or commercial) that regular developpers can't). The reasons are business related. PalmSource doesn't

Re: Self modifying app icon

At 14:44 2003-1-29 -0500, you wrote: I have an application that can be used for 2 separate purposes depending on how it is configured. Is there any way to have the app change its own icon via code. I am trying to avoid having to compile one version, edit the resource in Constructor, then

Re: building native ARM apps

The next big release of Palm OS will have the ability to support full native ARM applications by any developer. There are tons of changes happening in the lower levels of the OS; lots of things that developers will be very excited about. Also new compilers, resource tools, etc. The

Re: Issue with drawing bitmaps on some Sony devices

In my HandyShopper app, I was using 1bpp bitmaps to draw certain screen elements. On various Clie devices that sometimes locked up the device. I worked around the problem by defining a custom font with the images I needed and using the custom font instead of the 1bpp bitmaps. A bit of a PITA

Re: simplest way to grab screenshots

Thus spake Aaron Ardiri in news:17@palm-dev-forum: If I remember, alt prints the active window while the alt-less prt scr prints the entire screen... or something like that [ctrl] Either PrtScr or Ctrl-PrtScr will work for the entire screen. Toby -- NP: Live - Throwing Copper /

SysBatteryInfo API

What does Power percentage parameter exactly means that retrieved from SysBatteryInfo. Is it Remaining Power or Remaining Battery Capacity ? Appreciate your help -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Palm VII RS232 Situation

I have an application that makes extensive use of the RS232 port. The application runs just fine on Palm III's and Palm V's. For some reason, RS232 communications become a bit dodgy when the application is run on a Palm VII. I can find nothing in Palm's documentation to help me with this

i705 and IAS server

Does i705 support the SDK for processing the mpak packets for Mobitex network ? Currently I have an account with IAS server, is it possible for me to write apps to communicate with my server without activating with Palm.NET ? Thanks DT __ Do

Re: i705 and IAS server

At 13:23 2003-1-29 -0800, you wrote: Does i705 support the SDK for processing the mpak packets for Mobitex network ? Currently I have an account with IAS server, is it possible for me to write apps to communicate with my server without activating with Palm.NET ? No... there is no published

Re: Setting field text before displaying form

I have no problem doing that. Here's a snipet of code I use. notesPtr is a global char*. FormPtr frmP = FrmGetActiveForm(); UInt16 NotesLen; case frmOpenEvent: // Copy contents of notesPtr to the screen NotesLen = StrLen(notesPtr); FldSetMaxChars

Re: Menu error

I figured out what the problem is, just incase someone else runs in to it, I will explain it. When I opened my rsrc file and converted it to an rcp file (pilrc), it trashed the relationship between my form and the actual menu bar. I just re-associated it, and the problem went away. Brad Brad

Hotsync IDs and locales

Is there a definition of the values a hotsync ID can take? Presumably it can have no latin characters on devices with a locale such as Japanese. Usually strangeness is stripped from the hotsync ID to make the algorithm more robust to user inaccuracies when they enter their ID (say in a website).

Re: building native ARM apps

David Janssens writes: (But what I don't understand is how licensees can build native apps then. And if they can, what is the reason (be it technical or commercial) that regular developpers can't). A licensee has source code to the ROMs, and thus can statically link code to OS routines in that

Re: simplest way to grab screenshots

For windows I prefer Capture, a free utility that saves into files instead of onto the clipboard, no need to keep pasting stuff into a paintprogram. http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/capture.htm - Veronica Loell -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to

Help with Compile Error

If this question isn't appropriate for this forum I apologize in advance. But, can somebody please point me to help for a very simple program I'm trying to write for my Palm OS via Appforge for VB6. Private Sub btnConvert_Click() On Error GoTo ErrorHandler txtOutput(0).Text = (txtInput(0).Text

Re: Palm OS Developer Group in Silicon Valley?

In article 110716@palm-dev-forum, Ed Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Monday, January 27, 2003 1:58 AM -0600 Ben Combee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, this is a purely promotional message, but I thought this would be useful for some people. If you're in the Atlanta or Chicago

Re: PEF-Talk

In article 111051@palm-dev-forum, Stringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: [off-topic] PEF-Talk mailing list? From: Ron Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone here know what happened to the PEF-Talk mailing list? (Palm OS Entrepreneurs Forum). Is it live? I haven't seen anything in a couple

developers group in Denver/Colorado Springs

I'm interested in forming a Palm developers group that will meet from time to time in Denver or Colorado Springs to share tips, network, etc. If anyone is interested in talking with me about this please drop me an email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Beers -- For information on using the Palm

PDA (Access Denied 401)

Hi, I have developed a web clipping application that was running fine about 1 month ago but now when I again tryied to run that applicaiton then my web clipping applicaiton says Access denied 401 Actually my web clipping applicaiton is trying to connect to my IIS Server that is resided on my

Drawing application help!!!

Hi, I need help in developing a small application. Any suggestions on how to do it, or pertinent functions would be very useful. I need to have an app that allows a user to make random marks using the whole screen. I should then be able to retrieve the points and write it somewhere temporarily