Starting out

2005-02-16 Thread Andy Bell
Hi All, I have recently been looking at PalmOS development and have a couple of questions that maybe someone will be able to help me on. a) What device runs the Cobalt OS? b) I want to do network programming using the Bluetooth device, and then WiFi. Is there an SDK to support these? Is there

Re: Form must be full width - why?

2005-02-16 Thread Ben Combee
At 11:52 PM 2/15/2005, you wrote: I'm relatively new to Palm programming, and one of the projects I've done is a little utility used by me and maybe a couple of other people. It displays a modal dialog in the middle of the display, about 3/4 the width and the height of the full diplay. Also,

Re: Starting out

2005-02-16 Thread Ben Combee
a) What device runs the Cobalt OS? No released devices run Palm OS Cobalt at this time. b) I want to do network programming using the Bluetooth device, and then WiFi. Is there an SDK to support these? Is there a guide? In general, you just use NetLib and rely on the user to have the proper

RE: Starting out

2005-02-16 Thread Andy Bell
Hi Ben, Thanks for the info. What plans are there for a Palm OS cobalt device release? With regard to the video streaming, I am actually porting a library I use for desktop applications so hopefully it won't take that long. What would help would be some sample code for a simple application

Re: Palm's equivalent of C++'s cout?

2005-02-16 Thread Chris Brooks
JSY, There's no cout , the PalmOS is a GUI, so you'll have to use StrPrintF() to format it, and WinDrawChars() to put it on the screen. For converting a string to an integer use StrAToI() Chris. - Protected by:

how to know whether our application is running???

2005-02-16 Thread chintan
hi, Can anybody suggest me a way or an api function to know whether our/any application is running or not. Regards , chintan -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Hot Sync.

2005-02-16 Thread prabakar.mp
Hi, Is Hot Sync version 6.0 released? If yes, where can i get that? - Martin Prabakar. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Display pics on Palm OS

2005-02-16 Thread Fernando Israel
Hi there, I understand that the Palm OS uses it's own bitmap format. Is there any library support to decode standard formats such as jpg, gif, etc. into the Palm OS format so they can be displayed on a Palm ? Thanks, Fernando -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to

Re: Hot Sync.

2005-02-16 Thread A.Kazantsev
I bought it with my TT5. pm Is Hot Sync version 6.0 released? pm If yes, where can i get that? -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Touching T3's screen reduces performance by more than 30%

2005-02-16 Thread Marek Wyszynski
Thanks for your message Chris. Have you tried your game on T3? The problem is that no matter if you detect pen Events and not let them be processed by the system or simply ignore them, when you use touch pad performance drops more than 30%. I'm begining to believe that there is nothing that

RE: Hot Sync.

2005-02-16 Thread prabakar.mp
Hi, Please try to send me HotSync 6 version, I need that urgently. - Martin Prabakar. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of A.Kazantsev Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 5:20 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Hot Sync.

Re: Touching T3's screen reduces performance by more than 30%

2005-02-16 Thread Chris Brooks
Marek, I initially developed the game on a M515, then also on a T3 after I had newer OS troubles (nothing beats testing on the real thing) It's freeware, look for CaveRun on PalmGear, and try for yourself, touching the screen makes no difference at all to the game. Here is the event loop used

Re: Touching T3's screen reduces performance by more than 30%

2005-02-16 Thread Chris Brooks
Marek, Something I should also mention is the game was unplayable on a T3 because it was so fast - I had to cap it at 50fps. This may be why you're getting a slow down. It may be worth dumping out the FPS on-screen so you can see how slow it is with the pen movements, then capping it at that

Re: PODS vs CodeWarrior

2005-02-16 Thread Roger Stringer
Subject: Re: PODS vs CodeWarrior From: Mikhail Barashkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:30:03 +0200 CodeWarrior, as far as know, will not be further developed for PalmOS platform (i.e. Cobalt support, etc). Has there been any official word from Metrowerks about this? No.

Emul68KMain.c Line 403 error

2005-02-16 Thread Perl Guy
Hello I'm having problems with this error... Can anyone tell me what this means? I suspect this part of my code to cause the problem. Boolean Get_One_Buffer(unsigned char* buffer) { activeBuf-isFull = 0; MemMove(buffer, activeBuf-buf, IN_BUFFER_SIZE); activeBuf =

Flash Player on Palm OS

2005-02-16 Thread John Murphy
Hi, I'm not sure if this is in the correct forum. I am developing a Flash Player for the Palm OS 5 and was wondering could anyone here point me in the right direction for information on porting a Flash Player onto the Palm OS. Where do I start and what should I know. I am unfamiliar with Palm

RE: Hot Sync.

2005-02-16 Thread Ben Combee
At 08:13 AM 2/16/2005, you wrote: Hi, Please try to send me HotSync 6 version, I need that urgently. You can download the Palm Desktop releases for the palmOne Tungsten T5 and Treo 650 from the pluggedin.palmone.com site. These include Palm Desktop 4.1.4 and HotSync Mananger 6.0.1. -- Ben

Re: Display pics on Palm OS

2005-02-16 Thread Regis St-Gelais
Fernando Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit dans le message de news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi there, I understand that the Palm OS uses it's own bitmap format. Is there any library support to decode standard formats such as jpg, gif, etc. into the Palm OS format so they can be displayed on a

Re: Touching T3's screen reduces performance by more than 30%

2005-02-16 Thread Regis St-Gelais
Marek Wyszynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit dans le message de news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've already started a discussion about it earlier but the problem is not solved and I think it may bother some of Palm game developers. In my game to get maximum performance in my event loop I have:

Re: Display pics on Palm OS

2005-02-16 Thread Fernando Israel
Hi Regis, Thank you very much for the pointer. This is very useful. Cheers, Fernando -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Palm Library SQL

2005-02-16 Thread Miguel Fernandes
Does anyone knows if there is a library with SQL commands to connect to a remote DataBase. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Emul68KMain.c Line 403 error

2005-02-16 Thread Brandon Roberson
Hmm... What error are you getting? On which line of code? How big is IN_BUFFER_SIZE, and how much space is allocated for buffer, and is it allocated in heap or storage RAM? What does Get_Next_Full_Buffer() do, and what is all of this trying to accomplish? Without knowing any of that, we can only

RE: how to know whether our application is running???

2005-02-16 Thread Hays, Jonathan \(GE Infrastructure\)
You can use SysCurAppDatabase to get the db ID of the currently active application. -Jon --- Jonathan Hays Palm OS Certified Developer http://hazelware.luggle.com --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: Palm's equivalent of C++'s cout?

2005-02-16 Thread Hays, Jonathan \(GE Infrastructure\)
If you are running with a debugger, you can use DbgMessage and/or HostTraceOutputTL -Jon --- Jonathan Hays Palm OS Certified Developer http://hazelware.luggle.com --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: how to know whether our application is running???

2005-02-16 Thread Krzysztof Kowalczyk
When your code is executing, doesn't that imply that your app is running? So the API call to detect if your app is running is really: Boolean fAmIRunning() { return true; } Krzysztof Kowalczyk | http://blog.kowalczyk.info -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to

RE: Palm's equivalent of C++'s cout?

2005-02-16 Thread Hays, Jonathan \(GE Infrastructure\)
Doh! Sorry, I didn't read the original posting. Oh, well. =) You can disregard my original message. -Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hays, Jonathan (GE Infrastructure) Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 2:11 PM To: Palm Developer

RE: Touching T3's screen reduces performance by more than 30%

2005-02-16 Thread Hays, Jonathan \(GE Infrastructure\)
Also, you should make sure that the full screen writing is disabled. You can use GoLcdSetStatus(refNum, goLcdDisabled) to make sure that it is turned off. -Jon --- Jonathan Hays Palm OS Certified Developer http://hazelware.luggle.com

Re: Flash Player on Palm OS

2005-02-16 Thread Krzysztof Kowalczyk
I would recommend getting Palm OS programming bible (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764549618/) book. It tells you all the basic (and more) things about Palm OS that you need to know. Sign up for palmsource developer program (http://www.palmos.com/dev/programs/, click Palm OS

Re: Palm Library SQL

2005-02-16 Thread Krzysztof Kowalczyk
I'm 95% sure that there is no such thing (the 5% is because it's not possible to proove that something doesn't exist). In any case, you should be more specific e.g. which database do you want to connect to? Krzysztof Kowalczy | http://blog.kowalczyk.info -- For information on using the Palm

Re: TxtCharIsHardKey - Error in Palm OS Reference.pdf?

2005-02-16 Thread Ken Krugler
The Palm OS Reference states that; TxtCharIsHardKey Macro is valid only if International Feature Set is present. I believe that is incorrect, and causes confusion. It is a simple macro that does not use any TxtManager function, and works with any OS. I believe I once saw a Post about this. Please

Re: how to know whether our application is running???

2005-02-16 Thread Ingbert Grimpe
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:12:17 -0800, Krzysztof Kowalczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boolean fAmIRunning() { return true; } Reminds me of a telephone conference lately. Not everyone had sound, so the speaker asked Can you all hear me? ... ;) -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums,

Interview with PalmSource CEO

2005-02-16 Thread Cory Pratt
Some of you might find this interview with David Nagel interesting: http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/02/14/HNpalmsourceceo_1.html He remarks on future plans for Linux and Cobalt. If I understand correctly, Cobalt will be there (probably as a translation between the API's and the Linux

WinScreenLock help

2005-02-16 Thread Benoit Cerrina
Hello, I am trying to use WinScreenLock to avoid flickering. I use it the following way: UInt8 * lPreventFlicker = 0; //prevent flickers if (hasNewFeatureset35()) { lPreventFlicker = WinScreenLockPadict(winLockCopy); } //insert code for drawing here if (lPreventFlicker)

Re: Interview with PalmSource CEO

2005-02-16 Thread Robert Moynihan
Cory Pratt wrote: snip smartphone apps will have to be signed by the wireless carrier to be able to load them. snip ...and elsewhere in the article he states that one of the advantages of PalmOS is that there are ten thousand apps avalilable for download. Of course, it's likely that only a

Re: how to know whether our application is running???

2005-02-16 Thread Logan Shaw
Ingbert Grimpe wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:12:17 -0800, Krzysztof Kowalczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boolean fAmIRunning() { return true; } Reminds me of a telephone conference lately. Not everyone had sound, so the speaker asked Can you all hear me? Or like the time many years ago

Re: Interview with PalmSource CEO

2005-02-16 Thread Logan Shaw
Cory Pratt wrote: He remarks on future plans for Linux and Cobalt. If I understand correctly, Cobalt will be there (probably as a translation between the API's and the Linux kernel), but the apps are being ported to Linux (probably for the improved driver support). I didn't quite get that

RE: Interview with PalmSource CEO

2005-02-16 Thread Jonathan King
Plus, also keep in mind that the scenario where someone buys an app from PalmGear and can't load it on the smartphone is not going to happen very much. People who have smartphones (with the exception of the tiny percentage who had a Palm OS device before getting the phone) make 99.9% of

Re: FrmDrawForm and double buffering

2005-02-16 Thread Benoit Cerrina
I experienced that on some devices iQue3600 and Tungsten C, the WinScreenLock causes a freeze of the device. I do not have the devices myself and it is not reproducible on the simulator so testing is difficult. However it looks like the WinScreenLock returned 0 although it did lock the form.

Re: WinScreenLock help

2005-02-16 Thread Logan Shaw
Benoit Cerrina wrote: This locks up on Garmin iQue3600 and on tungsten C (maybe on other device). The lock up is only on the physical machine, nothing on the simulator. I really need help on this one. what other precaution should I use when using WinScreenLock. Is there any known bugs?

Re: Web browser on Palm OS Emulator

2005-02-16 Thread Donald C. Kirker
Log on to PalmSource and download the Web Browser 2 SDK (it includes the PRC's) for the simulator if it is Garnet (5.x) based or Web Browser 3.0 if the Simulator is Cobalt (6.x) based. Both are very good and do not require a proxy. Web Browser 3 is the best, but requires Cobalt to run. -Donald

Re: how to know whether our application is running???

2005-02-16 Thread LionScribe
Well you bunch of , he most probably meant during a different launch (like alarm) he would like to know if his main application is currently running. I am hereby quoting from the Palm OS Programmer's Companion, Volume I If your application receives a launch code other than

Re: Display pics on Palm OS

2005-02-16 Thread Stefan Stolz
For Jpeg have a look at http://www.bin-people.de/pnoJpegLib/ Stefan Fernando Israel wrote: Hi there, I understand that the Palm OS uses it's own bitmap format. Is there any library support to decode standard formats such as jpg, gif, etc. into the Palm OS format so they can be displayed on a

Re: Interview with PalmSource CEO

2005-02-16 Thread Craig Likes
--- Cory Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He also goes on to say that smartphone apps will have to be signed by the wireless carrier to be able to load them. Didn't get this out of the article. In the article it states a supported capability, it mentions nothing that I can find on a