Re: Cobalt porting: No longer single prc for all OS versions

2004-03-02 Thread Alex
For a developer porting to this newer version of OS has marginal gain at best from sales point of view. Porting to PPC could double the revenue. Just from a developer's perspective. We can do nothing (or very little) and stay in the 68k mode. Or going through the aerobics with Palm for ??? It's

Re: New Palm OS developer tools available for download

2004-03-02 Thread Eron Hennessey
Simon Dick wrote: He has sims except Cobalt running, but we still couldn't work out why none of them ran on my wine installation, slightly annoying for me. Anyone know if cygwin and PODS runs under wine? ;) Running cygwin under wine... now there's an image I'm going to have to try hard to

Re: time optimization

2004-03-02 Thread Flex
Concentrate your efforts on MemHandleLock - it's hell slow operation. If you can avoid some of the locks (by pre-locking for example) you'll be happy. Also if you can share one single buffer for all your... hm... records? I mean allocate the maximum length and save a couple of

code warrior 9.3 runtime library bug?

2004-03-02 Thread koreapalm
I was updated my codewarrior 9.2 to 9.3 and Build All project rebuild. My project source used mod function like below long i = 0; long x = I % 3;- Error When I used runtime library PalmOSRuntime_4i_A4A5 that was fatal error. But, any other runtime library didnt error. Please help.. --

Re: Cobalt porting: No longer single prc for all OS versions

2004-03-02 Thread Konstantin Klyatskin
Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For a developer porting to this newer version of OS has marginal gain at best from sales point of view. Porting to PPC could double the revenue. Just from a developer's perspective. We can do nothing (or very little) and stay in

using PODS-could not find getreent in dynamic dll

2004-03-02 Thread vitor paixao
hello i'm a newbie and i'm trying to get a basic palmOS project to work on the new developer suite. i'm getting this error when i build make target: could not find entrance point __getreent in dynamic library cygwin1.dll (i'm translating this from portuguese so there might be some slight changes

Re: code warrior 9.3 runtime library bug?

2004-03-02 Thread Ben Combee
At 05:09 AM 3/2/2004, you wrote: I was updated my codewarrior 9.2 to 9.3 and Build All project rebuild. My project source used mod function like below long i = 0; long x = I % 3’;- Error When I used runtime library “PalmOSRuntime_4i_A4A5” that was fatal error. But, any other runtime library

Re: Cobalt porting: No longer single prc for all OS versions

2004-03-02 Thread Ben Combee
At 02:21 AM 3/2/2004, you wrote: It's not clear why the changes could not be more evolutionary. It's even less clear the advantages of the overhaul. It is clear that the Palm is waffling about their own OS(s). Not a good message to developers who put up a lot over the years and just find the

Re: Cobalt porting: No longer single prc for all OS versions

2004-03-02 Thread Laurens
Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For a developer porting to this newer version of OS has marginal gain at best from sales point of view. Porting to PPC could double the revenue. Just from a developer's perspective. We can do nothing (or very little) and stay in

How to make a Shared Library using C++?

2004-03-02 Thread Alexandre Luz Barreto
i´m using the wizard in CW 9 to create a sahred library if i check Force C++ compilation.. just after finishing the wizard i get link error without forcing C++ it compiles what is the right way to make a C++ shared library? thnx -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to

Re: How to make a Shared Library using C++?

2004-03-02 Thread Ben Combee
At 06:58 AM 3/2/2004, you wrote: i´m using the wizard in CW 9 to create a sahred library if i check Force C++ compilation.. just after finishing the wizard i get link error without forcing C++ it compiles what is the right way to make a C++ shared library? There is no right way. The 68K shared

IR Print

2004-03-02 Thread Davi Carvalho
Hi everybody, I am new in this list... I am a Palm Developer since June/2003, so I don't have to much skills yet. I am trying to do a program that prints in an infrared printer. Any of you knows a simple program that uses the infrared comunication and so I can take some clues? I would like

Re: IR Print

2004-03-02 Thread Regis St-Gelais
Davi Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit dans le message de news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] snip I am trying to do a program that prints in an infrared printer. Any of you knows a simple program that uses the infrared comunication and so I can take some clues? snip You should look at this: XPrint

Re: Cobalt porting: No longer single prc for all OS versions

2004-03-02 Thread Roger Stringer
Subject: Re: Cobalt porting: No longer single prc for all OS versions From: John Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 19:28:44 +0100 Linke, Andreas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been programming Palm OS for 7 years now, but I can't remember such a radical change. There seems to be

Link Error : StartupCode.c: Illegal object data

2004-03-02 Thread Colin MacKenzie
I am trying to write an extension for Satellite Forms using the demo version of codewarrior and when I tried to make my project I get the following error: Link Error : StartupCode.c: Illegal object data in 'StartupCode.c'. Link Error : _RuntimeModule_: '_Startup_' referenced from

send database via Bluetooth, but not to use exchange manager

2004-03-02 Thread John Lai
I re-post this from bluetooth-forum to see whether anyone can help. In my app, master and a slave form a piconet. I can send data (char array) between them, using BtLibSocketSend(), RFCOMM socket. What I want now is to send a database or a record. Before creating a piconet, I can use exchange

Re: IR Print

2004-03-02 Thread Pierre Demeure
Bonjour, I suggest also that you use SDK provided by editors who have developped drivers for printers. That'll spare your time and you can dedicate your time for your program... Personally, I use Palmprint (Stevenscreek software) or Printboy (Bachmann Software). Both offer a sdk for developers.

PODS Can't Connect to Palm OS Simulator

2004-03-02 Thread Mike McCollister
When I try to debug an application with the Palm OS Simulator using PODS, I get the message: Error installing files: Error establishing connection to debug target: Connection refused: connect Any idea what the problem is? I've setup the launch target and it opens up the Palm OS Simulator but

Re: Cobalt porting: No longer single prc for all OS versions

2004-03-02 Thread Jamie Macleod
Jamie, Brad Figler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jamie Macleod wrote: It depends. If your targeting the CF .Net it is pretty easy, especially if you use VS .Net already. If you want to target PPC natively it is a little more difficult. Yes, Microsoft did a

Re: PODS Can't Connect to Palm OS Simulator

2004-03-02 Thread Ben Combee
At 10:48 AM 3/2/2004, you wrote: When I try to debug an application with the Palm OS Simulator using PODS, I get the message: Error installing files: Error establishing connection to debug target: Connection refused: connect Any idea what the problem is? I've setup the launch target and it

Re: Link Error : StartupCode.c: Illegal object data

2004-03-02 Thread Ben Combee
At 09:20 AM 3/2/2004, you wrote: I am trying to write an extension for Satellite Forms using the demo version of codewarrior and when I tried to make my project I get the following error: Link Error : StartupCode.c: Illegal object data in 'StartupCode.c'. Link Error : _RuntimeModule_: '_Startup_'

Re: Cobalt porting: No longer single prc for all OS versions

2004-03-02 Thread Brad Figler
But in my line of work, who cares if meet some ideal of expert? I need to develop solutions, not impress my users with my OS knowledge. I can get down and dirty with the best of them, but I prefer to have the development tool/environment do it for me. Anyways the .Net Framework is basically

Re: Cobalt porting: No longer single prc for all OS versions

2004-03-02 Thread Keith Rollin
At 7:02 PM -0800 3/1/04, Alex wrote: Just reading the overview of Cobalt makes me wonder whether it is a good time to port to PPC. If one needs to change that much, might as well picking up a new platform. Alex, What, to you, seems to be that much? Why would updating to the Protein API (which

Re: New Palm OS developer tools available for download

2004-03-02 Thread Keith Rollin
At 9:57 PM -0800 3/1/04, Eron Hennessey wrote: Tom Frauenhofer wrote: (Now Linux support - that's something that would be nice to see for the Cobalt toolset.) Anyone know how that project is coming along... the FAQ implies they're still looking for dev help on that... given that both PRC-tools

Re: PODS Can't Connect to Palm OS Simulator

2004-03-02 Thread Mike McCollister
Ben, I am running the one with PODS and DevNub is indeed running. Mike --- Ben Combee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:48 AM 3/2/2004, you wrote: When I try to debug an application with the Palm OS Simulator using PODS, I get the message: Error installing files: Error establishing

Re: Cobalt porting: No longer single prc for all OS versions

2004-03-02 Thread Aaron Ardiri
Is removing unused card number parameters and doing a search/replace for UInt32 - uint32_t so onerous that you think porting to PPC is easier? removing unused parameters + search and replace - BAH! #define UInt32 uint32_t i actually use uint32 in all my code, and for old palmos headers i

Re: Cobalt porting: No longer single prc for all OS versions

2004-03-02 Thread Keith Rollin
At 9:42 AM -0500 3/2/04, Roger Stringer wrote: Subject: Re: Cobalt porting: No longer single prc for all OS versions From: John Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 19:28:44 +0100 Linke, Andreas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been programming Palm OS for 7 years now, but I can't

Re: PalmSourceDeveloperSuite migration

2004-03-02 Thread Keith Rollin
Ben posted in another thread that he'll be addressing this in the form of articles and samples. I'm not sure what his timeline is for providing these, but considering that this is his second day of work here, I wouldn't expect that it would be before, say, this afternoon. :-) -- Keith Rollin

RUN TIME ERROR

2004-03-02 Thread RAHUL CHOUBE
dear friends, i am facing a runtime error while creating socket between two simulators running on desktop. the error is : Odd aligned read from 33007465 this error is occuring at the client side. Any help on this topic will be thankfully appriciated. regards rahul

Re: Backing up Cygwin installation?

2004-03-02 Thread Ralf Zimmermann
On Monday 01 March 2004 20:48, you wrote: At 10:18 AM + 2/28/04, Ralf Zimmermann wrote: 2) The installation of PODS has changed the path of /PalmDev inside the cygwin console from (in my case) D:\PalmDev\ to C:\Program Files\PalmSource\Palm OS Developer Suite\ You

Re: Cobalt porting: No longer single prc for all OS versions

2004-03-02 Thread David Fedor
This is going to be a chicken-and-egg-like situation for the forseeable future. Until Cobalt devices start selling in significant numbers, there won't be much incentive for developers to port and maintain OS6-specific branches of their apps. It is interesting to read this comment in light of the

Re: Cobalt porting: No longer single prc for all OS versions

2004-03-02 Thread David Fedor
Konstantin Klyatskin wrote: We are seriously thinking about quick patch our application for OS6.x just to disable DIA recognition as well as other non vital features causing the problem. Let's go down to 3.5. In the short term, if you don't want to take advantage of any new features, that's

Re: PODS Can't Connect to Palm OS Simulator

2004-03-02 Thread Keith Rollin
What version of PalmSim are you running, what kind of application are you building and trying to debug, and how did you configure your Launch Configuration? -- Keith Rollin -- Development Tools engineer At 10:34 AM -0800 3/2/04, Mike McCollister wrote: Ben, I am running the one with PODS and

icon depth density poll

2004-03-02 Thread Matt Graham
hello, I have kind of a poll question about icons. We currently support 6 combinations of bit depth and density for our icons. All possible combinations of bit depths 1, 2 and 8 and densities 72 and 144. This seems kind of overkill to me, so I'm wondering which combos are most common and

Re: Cobalt porting: No longer single prc for all OS versions

2004-03-02 Thread Jamie Macleod
Okay I can agree with that. And your right, the Palm is much easier to program then the PPC using eVC (or whatever it is called). Palm has done a great job of maintaining consistent API's across the different devices. I would consider Frameworks like .Net or JVM an OS from the developers point

Re: icon depth density poll

2004-03-02 Thread Ben Combee
At 03:05 PM 3/2/2004, you wrote: hello, I have kind of a poll question about icons. We currently support 6 combinations of bit depth and density for our icons. All possible combinations of bit depths 1, 2 and 8 and densities 72 and 144. This seems kind of overkill to me, so I'm wondering which

Re: PODS Can't Connect to Palm OS Simulator

2004-03-02 Thread Mike McCollister
Keith, I am running with PalmSim verion 6.0.0.0. I am compiling a simple 68K application. Launch code is sysAppLaunchCmdNormalLaunch Target is Palm OS Simulator (path pointed to once included in PODS) Arguments is -preferredLocale:enUS Mike --- Keith Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What

RE: PODS Can't Connect to Palm OS Simulator

2004-03-02 Thread Keith Rollin
Mike, See the section in the release notes labelled Debugging 68K Applications with pmgdb and Palm OS Cobalt Simulator. This section is there because of a problem in Palm OS(R) Cobalt Simulator that prevents it from being used within Eclipse for 68K debugging. I thought that we said that in

RE: icon depth density poll

2004-03-02 Thread Blake Winton
which combos are most common and which are relatively uncommon I'd focus on: 72dpi: 1-bit, 8-bit 108dpi: 8-bit 144dpi: 8-bit Very few monochrome devices run their displays in 2-bit or 4-bit gray by default, And even if they do (or if you switch them to), PalmOS 3.5 and up will convert

Link error trying to use Mathlib

2004-03-02 Thread RVRoadie
I get a link error saying pow and sqrt are undefined. I have a sample app from Garmin that uses Mathlib, and I can add these functions with no link error. I have mathlib.h included, mathlib.c in the project tree. Open and registration functions work fine. What am I missing? Thanks -- For

USB documentation???

2004-03-02 Thread Luke Pasek
Hi, is there any documentation available for USB driver (Serial Manager) in palmos 5? I need to comunicate over default pipe but I konow only how to open, bulk pipes... Please help!!! best regardz Luke Pasek -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

PODS and 'Simple' project for Cobalt

2004-03-02 Thread Ralf Zimmermann
Sorry to disturb, but I have a problem. I tried to make my first Cobalt application. Environment: PODS on Windows Professional2000 (What is professional about Windows...???) Compiling old projects under PODS/Eclipse (with PRC-tools) works fine. This is what I do: - New Palm OS Cobalt

MySQL from Palm ?

2004-03-02 Thread Stephane Pinel
I saw that there is a client API for PalmOS to connect to PostgreSQL RDBMS. Is there something similar to access MySQL ? Thanks. Stéphane -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Cobalt porting: No longer single prc for all OS versions

2004-03-02 Thread Ron Nicholson
On Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:42:09, Keith Rollin writes: However, providing 100% source code compatibility was at odds with other goals, such as providing oft-asked features such as multi-threading and security. It's not at odds as long as Feature Manager and error returns are provided on OS

Re: PODS and 'Simple' project for Cobalt

2004-03-02 Thread Keith Rollin
At 11:04 PM + 3/2/04, Ralf Zimmermann wrote: Sorry to disturb, but I have a problem. I tried to make my first Cobalt application. I think that we're trying to encourage people to post problems with PODS and other tools to the tools-forum. Environment: PODS on Windows Professional2000 (What

Re: Cobalt porting: No longer single prc for all OS versions

2004-03-02 Thread David Fedor
On Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:42:09, Keith Rollin writes: providing 100% source code compatibility was at odds with other goals, such as providing oft-asked features such as multi-threading and security. It's not at odds as long as Feature Manager and error returns are provided on OS versions

Re: Cobalt porting: No longer single prc for all OS versions

2004-03-02 Thread Ron Nicholson
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:15:49, David Fedor writes: ... And I bet a surprisingly large amount of code can in fact be shared, given judicious #includes of compatibility headers. But for example, the reason we had to add the DmRef parameter to FrmGotoForm, DmGetResource, etc. goes way beyond that.

Identifying a notification/event

2004-03-02 Thread Joe Bloggs
Hello Forum, I am working with the Kyocera 7135 Smart phone and am trying to identify the event/notification that is generated when the phone is closed (it is a clam shell style phone). I have looked through Kyocera's API docs but was unable to find this information. Originally, I believed it

Chinese / Constructor

2004-03-02 Thread Edward P. Ross
Is there a version of Constructor that will allow me to create resources using Chinese text? It works with Japanese I know and messages in the archives say that there isn't a Chinese - enabled one, but they were older posts. Thanks, Edward -- Acrocat Software, L.L.C. Do you workout? Get

Gotchas with Notifications?

2004-03-02 Thread Walt Bilofsky
Are there any special precautions my app needs to take once it's registered for notifications? It's running on OS 5.2. I found that updating the app with a HotSync will move its address, so then the next notification goes to the wrong place and gives a message like Emul68KMain.c, Line:456,

Re: Chinese / Constructor

2004-03-02 Thread Ben Combee
At 07:40 PM 3/2/2004, you wrote: Is there a version of Constructor that will allow me to create resources using Chinese text? It works with Japanese I know and messages in the archives say that there isn't a Chinese - enabled one, but they were older posts. The English version of Constructor

Re: Gotchas with Notifications?

2004-03-02 Thread Chris Faherty
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 08:53 pm, Walt Bilofsky wrote: I found that updating the app with a HotSync will move its address, so then the next notification goes to the wrong place and gives a message like (snip) So it turns its notifications off before the HotSync and back on again after. You

Re: IR Print

2004-03-02 Thread Alan Ingleby
Davi Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I am trying to do a program that prints in an infrared printer. Any of you knows a simple program that uses the infrared comunication and so I can take some clues? If you *must* roll-your-own, look for ir-ping. It's a

Purchasing Palms

2004-03-02 Thread Cliff
Once, long ago, when our company first became a Palm Developer, we were able to purchase Palms at reduced prices for use in developing. Is that program still in existence and if so, how does one go about accessing it if one is still a Palm Developer? Thank you. Cliff --

RE: Purchasing Palms

2004-03-02 Thread Colin Mitchell
Unless someone knows something I don't, there's not much of a program here for you. However, Palm does sell 'open box' units at tantalizingly low prices... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cliff Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 10:16

Re: Purchasing Palms

2004-03-02 Thread Cliff
So Palm no longer offers reduced pricing to developers? -- - Eliminate annoying spam! My mailbox is protected by iHateSpam, the #1-rated spam buster. http://www.ihatespam.net Colin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in

Re[2]: Base PRC and Overlay localization

2004-03-02 Thread Ken Krugler
Thanks for this info. Could you tell me where in constructor I can check the PRC's DB header? In constructor, in the project settings, there is a button Auto Generate Header file if I click on it, I can provide a header file name. Do I have to use that ? As the original program is not one of

Re: Japanese

2004-03-02 Thread Ken Krugler
I'm guessing that the strings you're referring to are being displayed in a dialog by POSE - No, the text was drawn to the screen using WinPaintChars. Then it should work, if you're using a Japanese ROM, as there's no desktop OS support involved. -- Ken -- Ken Krugler TransPac Software, Inc.

Re: Re: code warrior 9.3 runtime library bug?

2004-03-02 Thread koreapalm
Sure I'm fit 4 integer model in my project. And I was no error in codewarrior 9.2 version. It's occur in 9.3 version. Please help.. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Purchasing Palms

2004-03-02 Thread SLO Revo News
Once, long ago, when our company first became a Palm Developer, we were able to purchase Palms at reduced prices for use in developing. Is that program still in existence and if so, how does one go about accessing it if one is You can get modest discounts thru the Palmone PluggedIn developer

Re: Identifying a notification/event

2004-03-02 Thread SLO Revo News
Does anyone know of the event generated when a Kyocera Phone is closed or of a technique for identifying the event/notification that is being generated? You might want to try using PDQSigRegister to register for _all_ PDQ events, then log them to see what happens (if anything) when you close the

Re: Cobalt porting: No longer single prc for all OS versions

2004-03-02 Thread Konstantin Klyatskin
David, Actualy, I'm talking about specific sample rather then sampleS. It's SampleCollapse_DR2.zip PalmSource has distributed with some revision of SDK5. Application codeflow from this sample seems to follow SDK guides absolutely and it works as it should for preCobalt devices (even with debug

Re: Gotchas with Notifications?

2004-03-02 Thread Scott Dreslinski
Depends on the notification and how you registered it. If you are getting the notification as a launch code, then there should be no issue with your app moving. If you are registering your notification for a direct function callback, then you need to lockdown your code resource so it does not