Overlapped controls in PalmOS ?

2003-04-02 Thread Alex Gusev
HI all, sorry for posting analogues quiestion again, but I really need some answer. is it possible to overlap controls, say list over table or vice versa, under PalmOS?. 'upper' control in z-order should get all events. and are there differences in event handling between PalmOS 3.5 and 4.x

Open database overhead

2003-04-02 Thread Martijn Stalenhoef
Is there any overhead associated with an opened database? I'm trying to figure out if it's a really bad idea to keep open a total of 18 different databases. Regards, Martijn Stalenhoef -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Close Dialog

2003-04-02 Thread Alex
On PalsOS4 to close dialog I use this code with success if(frmP-attr.doingDialog) { //FrmDoDialog is active frmP-attr.exitDialog = 1; //for to exit from loop } But on PalmOS5 it`s doesn`t work. How I can take same effect? Thanks. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums,

Re: How to use a non editable text field to display text during runtime?

2003-04-02 Thread Gearoid Murphy
You can untick the fields 'Editable' attribute in Constructor and programmatically set the fields text using FldSetText, FldSetTextHandle or FldSetTextPtr (FldSetTextPtr only to be used with non-editable fields). Regards, Ger From: Jeremy Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Palm Developer

String to Hex

2003-04-02 Thread borjas
Hi, I'm developing a little aplication for Palm. Now I'm facing a little problem. I have to convert a string in to a hex and I don't now how. The string would be like this:FF A1 23 D2 5E. First I have to take out all of the spaces. I tried to use StrCopy but I got no sucess. After taking

RE: How to use a non editable text field to display text during runtime?

2003-04-02 Thread David Martin
Subject: RE: How to use a non editable text field to display text during runtime? You need to set the field to usable but not editable. The ... I believe (haven't done this for a while) that you may need to set the field to editable for the duration of your calls to update it...

Re: String to Hex

2003-04-02 Thread Aaron Ardiri
I'm developing a little aplication for Palm. Now I'm facing a little problem. I have to convert a string in to a hex and I don't now how. The string would be like this:FF A1 23 D2 5E. First I have to take out all of the spaces. I tried to use StrCopy but I got no sucess. After taking

Re: How to use a non editable text field to display text during runtime?

2003-04-02 Thread Dave Lippincott
Just a suggestion: Don't use a text field. Use a label or write the text directly to the screen. - Original Message - From: Jeremy Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 12:00 AM Subject: How to use a non editable text field

how to change time and date values

2003-04-02 Thread David Martin
Context: GCC prc-tools, Palm OS Emulator 3.5, SDK 4.0, cygwin. I am trying to implement a 30-day trial period, and have tried two different approaches, neither of which works. I have checked the archives under TimGetSeconds and DateAdjust but found nothing appropriate. what am I doing wrong?

Re: how to change time and date values

2003-04-02 Thread Aaron Ardiri
Context: GCC prc-tools, Palm OS Emulator 3.5, SDK 4.0, cygwin. I am trying to implement a 30-day trial period, and have tried two different approaches, neither of which works. I have checked the archives under TimGetSeconds and DateAdjust but found nothing appropriate. i have an example of

Re: how to change time and date values

2003-04-02 Thread Aaron Ardiri
DateTimeType *dt_expiry; DateType *d_expiry; these should be: DateTimeType dt_expiry; DateType d_expiry; UInt32 gExpiry; /* first attempt: bus error (read from non-mapped memory)*/ TimSecondsToDateTime( timenow, dt_expiry ); DateSecondsToDate( timenow, d_expiry ); and..

Re: String to Hex

2003-04-02 Thread Dave Lippincott
I'm a little confused: I have to convert a string in to a hex - convert a string of numbers? into a string of Hex numbers? so the return would be something like this:255 161 35 210 94... But this implies you convert a string of Hex numbers into a single string of decimal numbers Which is it?

RE: how to change time and date values

2003-04-02 Thread David Martin
Thank you, miracle recovery! I'll include the corrections so the next hunt through the archives will be rewarded: /* add 30 days to current time */ UInt32 timenow = TimGetSeconds(); UInt32 gExpiry; TimSecondsToDateTime( timenow, dt_expiry ); DateSecondsToDate( timenow, d_expiry ); DateAdjust(

RE: How to use a non editable text field to display text during runtime?

2003-04-02 Thread Mark Cameron
Subject: RE: How to use a non editable text field to display text during runtime? You need to set the field to usable but not editable. The ... I believe (haven't done this for a while) that you may need to set the field to editable for the duration of your calls to update it... then

newbie help

2003-04-02 Thread budi
hi .. i'm new to this list and just learn about palm programming anyone can give me url pr book as reference fpr programming palm device using code warrior? tia boed __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and

Re: pilrc

2003-04-02 Thread Chris DiPierro
It shold be noted, that you need not use BITMAPFAMILYSPECIAL A regulare BITMAPFAMILY will work just fine. And wow, someone else actually uses this, yay! Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tell pilrc to map the bitmap data to a specific palette

Re: pilrc

2003-04-02 Thread Aaron Ardiri
It shold be noted, that you need not use BITMAPFAMILYSPECIAL A regulare BITMAPFAMILY will work just fine. And wow, someone else actually uses this, yay! oh yeah :) sorry.. BITMAPFAMILYSPECIAL is used simply because lemmings runs in 4bpp *g* i just cut+pasted from existing code i already had

FORMBITMAP and BITMAPFAMILYEX

2003-04-02 Thread Bradly J. Barton
Making my first real foray into PilRC (been using Constructor) and I have encountered a problem while trying to use FORMBITMAP with high density bitmap families I have the following: FORM ID MainForm AT (0 0 160 160) USABLE NOSAVEBEHIND HELPID 0 DEFAULTBTNID 0 MENUID 1000 BEGIN TITLE test

Local SMS Send via Exchange Manager

2003-04-02 Thread Steve Mann
On OS 4.1/POSE 3.5, I'm able to send myself a message using the local exchange library with the following socket setup: ExgSocketType exgSocket; MemSet ( exgSocket, sizeof ( exgSocket ), 0 ); exgSocket.target= MyAppCreatorID exgSocket.name = _local:SMS.sms; ExgPut ExgSend (send a

saving bitmap

2003-04-02 Thread christy
I have been following the signature.c example and was able to let the user draw his signature on palm screen. When the user clicks on the submit button, I would like to turn the drawing into a bitmap and save it along with other fields into a database. I don't need to re-display the signature

Local SMS Send via Exchange Manager

2003-04-02 Thread Steve Mann
Should I be sending something other than a string to the SMS application, or should I be doing something entirely different (like talking directly to the SMS Exchange Library)? Additional information: on a real Tungsten-W, the error message I get (twice per attempt) is Invalid parameter in

Re: FORMBITMAP and BITMAPFAMILYEX

2003-04-02 Thread Aaron Ardiri
Making my first real foray into PilRC (been using Constructor) and I have encountered a problem while trying to use FORMBITMAP with high density bitmap families I have the following: FORM ID MainForm AT (0 0 160 160) USABLE NOSAVEBEHIND HELPID 0 DEFAULTBTNID 0 MENUID 1000 BEGIN TITLE

RE: newbie help

2003-04-02 Thread David Martin
hi .. i'm new to this list and just learn about palm programming anyone can give me url pr book as reference fpr search Amazon.com for the word Palm Programming under the Books category. 46 entries last time I looked. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/002-7973369-4236028

RE: newbie help

2003-04-02 Thread John Gordon
Hello, There's also the set that are recommended by Palm on their website: http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/docs/other.html HTH, John... --- David Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi .. i'm new to this list and just learn about palm programming anyone can give me url pr book as

Re: Close Dialog

2003-04-02 Thread Ben Combee
At 17:06 2003-4-2 +0400, you wrote: On PalsOS4 to close dialog I use this code with success if(frmP-attr.doingDialog) { //FrmDoDialog is active frmP-attr.exitDialog = 1; //for to exit from loop } But on PalmOS5 it`s doesn`t work. How I can take same effect? Use FrmEraseForm and

Re: FORMBITMAP and BITMAPFAMILYEX

2003-04-02 Thread Ben Combee
At 11:51 2003-4-2 -0600, you wrote: Making my first real foray into PilRC (been using Constructor) and I have encountered a problem while trying to use FORMBITMAP with high density bitmap families I have the following: FORM ID MainForm AT (0 0 160 160) USABLE NOSAVEBEHIND HELPID 0 DEFAULTBTNID

Re: FORMBITMAP and BITMAPFAMILYEX

2003-04-02 Thread Aaron Ardiri
Have you applied the 9.1 update to CW V9 -- it includes an updated PilRC Designer. I don't see anything wrong with your syntax here -- have you looked at the output PRC file using PRC Explorer to see if the resources look OK? bradly emailed me privately. he was using an out-of-date version

Re: newbie help

2003-04-02 Thread Oliver
hi .. i'm new to this list and just learn about palm programming Welcome! anyone can give me url pr book as reference fpr programming palm device using code warrior? It's a bit hard to make recommendations without more information about your background. In any case, there are a couple of

Play IMA ADPCM wave files on Tungsten T

2003-04-02 Thread Ken Pan
I have used SndPlayResource to play IMA ADPCM compressed wave files in Tungsten T without success. Installing Audio Update from Palm didn't help either. However, I have found out that Voice Memo in Tungsten T can record voices in IMA ADPCM compressed format and play them back nicely. I wonder

Re: how to change time and date values

2003-04-02 Thread Matt Hebley
I think you were closer with your second attempt, you just need to tell the compiler to use 32-bit integers. gExpiry = TimGetSeconds() + 30 * daysInSeconds; Matt - Original Message - From: David Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April

Re: how to change time and date values

2003-04-02 Thread Aaron Ardiri
I think you were closer with your second attempt, you just need to tell the compiler to use 32-bit integers. gExpiry = TimGetSeconds() + 30 * daysInSeconds; i didn't see anything wrong with his latest attempt actually if your not going to pick on code efficiency or so :) of course, doing a:

Preventing app from being moved to storage card

2003-04-02 Thread Alexander Galkin
How can I prevent the app on Palm OS from being moved from main memory to storage card? -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Preventing app from being moved to storage card

2003-04-02 Thread Ben Combee
At 17:01 2003-4-2 -0500, you wrote: How can I prevent the app on Palm OS from being moved from main memory to storage card? Set the copy-prevention bit in your application's PRC header. It will only stop casual copying, however, as its very easy to work around. -- Ben Combee [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Close Dialog

2003-04-02 Thread Dave Johnson
On PalsOS4 to close dialog I use this code with success if(frmP-attr.doingDialog) { //FrmDoDialog is active frmP-attr.exitDialog = 1; //for to exit from loop } If your situation allows it, you should use CtlHitControl() to hit the appropriate button in your dialog. I like this approach

Another couple of newbie problems

2003-04-02 Thread Eduardo Orea
I know that this couldbe a kind of dumb issue, but I can't figure out by my self. The first one. I created a database of about 10 records to store some configuration that I don't want to store in the Prefs. Now I can get the info using fields in my config form, but I'm not able to get the info

Re: Another couple of newbie problems

2003-04-02 Thread John Gordon
Hello, If you haven't already found it, check out the tutorial at http://tangentsoft.net/palmfaq/articles/tutorial/index.html - read it all though, including the debugging section, as there are some bugs in the code in the earlier section that are fixed in the debugging portion of the tutorial.

problems with changing FormBitmapType's member

2003-04-02 Thread chris
Now I'm porting some old version palm application to newer version original code have some codes that changes FromBitmapType's attr member to hide bitmap button icon.. but, when I try to build that original code for newer version of palmOS , some error has arisen... I try to find the reason,

RE: Another couple of newbie problems

2003-04-02 Thread Mark Cameron
I haven't found the built-in float support to suffice for decimal calculations or comparisons. I have built a couple of different iterations of myFloat classes. The first represented float values as Int32 values, e.g. an int value of 123456 with precision of two digits really means 1234.56. This

Re: Another couple of newbie problems

2003-04-02 Thread Steven Fisher
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eduardo Orea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a matter of floats, I have to make some calculations about time and cost per minute, but I get a nice 1.111e01 kind of result. How can I make it seems like 11.12 in order to be easy of undestand? if you can help me