Force numeric field on Treo

2007-07-24 Thread Ed Greenberg
On the Treo (mine is a 700p) when you are in the Contacts app, the phone number fields start off with the device set in num-lock (or symbol-lock if you will.) How can I emulate this behavior in my app. If the field expects digits, I'd like to set this mode for the user automatically. Many

Treo 650 and Cobalt?

2005-04-13 Thread Ed Sahakian
Does anyone know if the Treo 650 can ever be upgraded to run on the new Cobalt OS? Also what is the list of Cobalt enabled phones out there if any? Thanks, -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Off-topic: PalmOS or WinCE

2005-03-15 Thread Ed Garbacz
programmers PalmOS can be fairly easy to learn. However, for the less experienced or those looking to create something quickly CASL has a lot to offer along with room to grow. Thanks for your comments. Ed G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.caslsoft.com -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums

Unknown SerialDispatch request error on T3/T5

2005-01-24 Thread Ed Jones
Hi all, I am trying to run the COMM.PRC serial test program provided with Pocket Studio 2.1 but when I tap on it after loading it onto my Tungsten T3 to start it, I immediately get this message: Comm68K.c, Line 4008, Unknown SerialDispatch request:0 and the only thing I can do is reset the

Where are the emulator ROM images????

2005-01-18 Thread Ed Pugh
and then on Platform ROMs, I get a page that lists only the ROM image for Palm OS 4.1.2, but none of the earlier OS images. Where are the earlier ROM OS images? (I'm looking for 2.0). Regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev

Re: Where are the emulator ROM images????

2005-01-18 Thread Ed Pugh
it so famous! SHAME ON XEROX! As a palm developer, I truly hope the Xerox company dies a horrible and painful death because of their patent infringement lawsuit. With best regards (but not for Xerox), Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http

Re: Where are the emulator ROM images????

2005-01-18 Thread Ed Pugh
last a bit longer. And sorry about my earlier rant. It came from the frustration of learning that I cannot obtain the earlier OS ROM images (which is still a frustration for me, but I should not have ranted, even though I still think Xerox are The Bad Guys in all of this). Best regards, Ed

What is AccessorDispatch???

2005-01-17 Thread Ed Pugh
with OS's earlier than 4.0, but I was hoping to release the game to the general public and declare 2.0 as the minimum required OS. (That was the reason I ran CheckPRC on the software.) Thanks and regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

How to license and publish cost-free software?

2005-01-04 Thread Ed Pugh
instructions. (Is there anything else I should include?) Any other ideas on how to get started with publishing PalmOS software would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support

re: Can IR port be used to synchronize TOD clocks between two palms?

2004-12-14 Thread Ed Pugh
I forgot to mention - the solution must work on PalmOS 3.0 onward. Thanks, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Can IR port be used to synchronize TOD clocks between two palms?

2004-12-14 Thread Ed Pugh
showing a PalmOS implementation of NTP over the IR port? Thanks and regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Can IR port be used to synchronize TOD clocks between two palms?

2004-12-13 Thread Ed Pugh
using the exchange manager or something. Any good suggestions or web sites with example code would be appreciated. Thanks, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Can a RAM application replace a ROM application of the same name and creatorID?

2004-12-13 Thread Ed Pugh
in the PalmOS? Thanks and regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Sleep/Wake events. (Bob M., Ben C. note)

2004-12-09 Thread Ed Pugh
is running? Thanks and regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

How do I keep tick counter and RTC synchronized across sleeps ?

2004-12-06 Thread Ed Pugh
up the Palm, or will it launch its normal application instead? (I can find this out later by actually trying it when I get back home.) Thanks and regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: How do I keep tick counter and RTC synchronized across sleeps ?

2004-12-06 Thread Ed Pugh
or hard key has turned the palm on (but not when such a key does NOT turn the palm on). I had a couple of other questions in my original post, also. Thanks and regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support

What is easiest way to get tver resource string?

2004-11-22 Thread Ed Pugh
Hi. Is DmGetResource the only method available to get at the version string (as defined in the 'tver0001' resource)? Is there a more direct API specifically for the version string? Thanks and regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

What is the maximum system error string length?

2004-11-22 Thread Ed Pugh
buffer be? What is the maximum length of any system error string? Thanks and regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Software Copy Protection - One More Time!

2004-11-22 Thread Ed Pugh
Hi. Concerning Aaron's white paper on this topic, following is a post that I wrote in reply to the Lock beamin thread (which began on 2004-10-29 at 05:10:00). The following has instructions on how to obtain the white paper from Palmsource's Knowledge Base. Regards, Ed. -- my Lock

Re: What is the maximum system error string length?

2004-11-22 Thread Ed Pugh
, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Software Copy Protection - One More Time!

2004-11-22 Thread Ed Pugh
the serial number - for Palms with FLASH ROM), and it becomes much more difficult to pirate the software (but still not completely impossible). Aaron's white paper had some other good ideas. Regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http

How to get version string from tver resource? What is max length of system error message string?

2004-11-21 Thread Ed Pugh
? Alternatively, is there an easier way to get the 'tver' resource version string? Thanks and regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

re: OReillyStarter.zip

2004-11-19 Thread Ed Pugh
I can download it OK. Go to: ftp://ftp.calliopeinc.com/palmprog2/ It's called OReillyStarter.zip, not Starter.zip. There seems to be a lot of other good stuff in there, too. Regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http

re: OReillyStarter.zip

2004-11-19 Thread Ed Pugh
Woops, sorry. You had the right name, after all. I read it wrong. (I looked for Starter.zip when I first got there.) Anyway, I had no problem downloading it from the sight you quoted. Regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http

re: TxtGlueParamString on Sony S300

2004-11-19 Thread Ed Pugh
Why not use FtrGet to determine the ROM version, then call the glue function if it is earlier than 3.5, or the ROM function if it is later? I have not tried this, so is there any reason why this would not work? Regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums

re: transmitting records

2004-11-18 Thread Ed Pugh
interest you, such as: Exchange Manager: Sending Records, Attachment support sample code and Guidelines for Attachment Support. You may also want to look through other categories such as INet Library or Bluetooth. Hope this helps. Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums

re: transmitting records

2004-11-18 Thread Ed Pugh
into binary, and then write it to the database. If you are writing your own mail or send-record client, you could probably automate almost all of the above steps and may not even have to use the clip-board. Regards again, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe

Re: Signature capture

2004-11-18 Thread Ed Pugh
Huh? Just go to the knowledge database: http://kb.palmsource.com and then type signature in the search text field and then click on search. It came up with three hits and the first one looks like what you want. The knowledge database is your friend! Regards, Ed. -- For information

Re: Can new label be written to pointer returned by CtlGetLabel() ?

2004-11-13 Thread Ed Pugh
a form is loaded and initialised, all the form's objects are locked in dynamic memory, right? This allows me to get the pointer to a button's label and expect it to stay there while the form is loaded, right? Thanks and regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums

Can new label be written to pointer returned by CtlGetLabel() ?

2004-11-12 Thread Ed Pugh
= '*'; } else { *btnLabelPtr = '@'; } } Is there any problem with dynamically changing the label using the above method? Thanks and regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

re: Can new label be written to pointer returned by CtlGetLabel() ?

2004-11-12 Thread Ed Pugh
it on the POSE, it did not seem to mind changing the label as in my previous example code. Thanks and regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Lock beaming.

2004-11-02 Thread Ed Pugh
Platform Software Protection Near the bottom of the resulting page are .sit (for MAC) and .zip (for PC) files that contain the white paper. It has some interesting ideas. Regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev

What tools are available to print small labels from a Palm PDA while mobile?

2004-10-28 Thread Ed Pugh
to send infomation to a label-maker? Any suggestions on how to do this would be appreciated. The end solution must be as low-cost as possible for the end user, as this is a hobby-related application. Thanks and regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums

How do I dynamically chage help resource ID on modal forms?

2004-10-20 Thread Ed Pugh
. Is there a better way to do this that will prevent my code from being broken in other or future Palm OS versions? Is there a supplied API that I have missed that will change a form's help resource string ID? Thanks and regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums

How do I obtain application creator ID at run-time?

2004-10-20 Thread Ed Pugh
database? How do I do that? (Once I do that, then I can just use that creator ID to create or open a the application's data database.) Thanks and regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: How do I obtain application creator ID at run-time?

2004-10-20 Thread Ed Pugh
Ah! That was simple! I was not previously aware of the SysCurAppDatabase function. Thanks, Ben. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: How do I dynamically change help resource ID on modal forms?

2004-10-20 Thread Ed Pugh
Thanks, Ben. I did try looking in the reference index under help but did not find anything there. Lesson learned: ALWAYS check the glue lib. Hopefully I'll get that burned into my bio-firmware. :-) Thanks, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe

Becoming the launcher

2003-07-24 Thread Ed Greenberg
Many third party applications exist that take over the Home button in order to become the launcher. Handscape comes to mind, but there are a bunch. How is this done? -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Need PDA Replacement

2003-06-24 Thread Ed Greenberg
Tungsten C has built in Wifi, hires, and an SD slot. 64MB and OS5.2. Unfortunately, it's not cheap, though at a couple thousand, you could probably get a good deal. --On Tuesday, June 24, 2003 4:06 PM -0400 Dave Mottorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I developed an application for the

Re: Database Development

2003-06-21 Thread Ed Greenberg
Try these functions for converting strings to doubles and back again. http://www.escribe.com/computing/pcpqa/m71771.html /edg --On Saturday, June 21, 2003 1:50 PM +0800 DongDong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have same question too. I'm going to do a project with floating point numbers and some

RE: POL Questions Attn: Matthew and Robert

2003-06-01 Thread Ed Greenberg
Score another vote for POL. I have it working in three projects so far. --On Saturday, May 31, 2003 9:12 PM +0300 Maks Pyatkovskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At this moment POL 4 can be purchased only as part of Metrowerks CodeWarrior 9 Pro. All CodeWarrior 9 users can download free POL updates

cardNo vs volRefNum

2003-02-06 Thread Ed Greenberg
Many calls, such as DmFindDatabase, refer to a cardNo, which is usually 0, but could be a memory card. To find out what cards are available on the device (in addition to 0) one seems to call VFSVolumeEnumerate in a loop until you run out of volumes. (I realize that in present day hardware, the

Re: cardNo vs volRefNum

2003-02-06 Thread Ed Greenberg
Replying to my own post... How does one launch an application that resides on a card? The .prc is in /PALM/Launcher on the card, so how do I get the dbID and SysUISwitch to it? DmNumDatabases returns 0 when called on card 1. --On Thursday, February 06, 2003 1:44 PM -0800 Ed Greenberg [EMAIL

Re: Question about the use of CW8...

2003-01-29 Thread Ed Greenberg
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

Palm OS Developer Group in Silicon Valley?

2003-01-27 Thread Ed Greenberg
--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 areas, I'll be talking to your local Palm OS developer group this week. Does

RE: How tall is a list

2003-01-24 Thread Ed Greenberg
This doesn't take into account the list which has less entries than it's height can hold. The problem is solved though. --On Friday, January 24, 2003 10:12 AM -0600 Jeff Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed Greenberg wrote: The question was in items. The solution for me, as suggested by Aaron

How tall is a list

2003-01-23 Thread Ed Greenberg
I have a list on a form (declared in the resources, not constructed at runtime) and I need to know at runtime how tall it is. LstGetVisibleItems only returns the number of active choices. No way to tell if the list is full or not. I wonder if I have to embed a constant that I would have to

Re: How tall is a list

2003-01-23 Thread Ed Greenberg
--On Thursday, January 23, 2003 7:03 PM -0800 Steve Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a list on a form (declared in the resources, not constructed at runtime) and I need to know at runtime how tall it is. In pixels or items? Pixels: get the objects bounds. Items: min(# items, visible

Five-way on Simulator/Emulator

2003-01-21 Thread Ed Greenberg
Anyone know how to get Tungsten T functionality (specifically five-way) on the simulator? Is it possible to add five-way to the Emulator? The Fiveway SDK is silent on this issue (that I can find). -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

CW9 and OS-5 serial debug...

2003-01-20 Thread Ed Greenberg
I would like to report success debugging on the Tungsten T with CW9. Debugged my way through code using Netlib and talking to a bluetooth connection. Wow! --On Monday, January 20, 2003 12:38 AM -0600 Ben Combee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 14:11 2003-1-19 -0500, you wrote: Does anyone know

UI question: app can't continue, what now?

2003-01-15 Thread Ed Greenberg
In the case that an application cannot continue, what is the correct UI behavior after the user presses cancel. Example: * App starts and user is dropped into modal dialog box for first-time setup. * User provides UID and Password * App goes off to network and UID/PW fails * User dropped back

Program Counter is not even

2002-12-23 Thread Ed Greenberg
I'm getting a strange error from the emulator that I haven't seen before. Does anybody know what I might be doing at the application level to cause this? ... just changed emulated program counter to ___. This address is invalid because it is not even. And indeed, the address ends in 'f'. This

Re: Program Counter is not even

2002-12-23 Thread Ed Greenberg
--On Monday, December 23, 2002 11:25 PM -0600 Ben Combee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your problem is that you pass the address of p to PrefGetAppPreferences rather than the value of p. The OS is retrieving the prefs and storing it on the stack, which is overwriting your return address. You try

HTTP GET on Tungsten T

2002-12-22 Thread Ed Greenberg
I'm trying to get an HTTP GET (TCP/IP NetLib app) to work on the Tungsten T. Here's my environment, what I've done, and what I've got. Tungsten T, PicoBlue (Bluetooth) Access Point. (Problem) Reference platforms that work: * Emulator running M515 rom with net calls redirected to the PC * Palm

Tungsten-CW for debugging

2002-12-16 Thread Ed Greenberg
I know that one can't debug via USB, but can one get a Tungsten serial cable to allow debugging. Specifically I want to debug an app that will be doing NetLib communication via the Bluetooth interface, and I'd like to be able to step through it on the device in case it doesn't work in

Override the UI colors

2002-12-13 Thread Ed Greenberg
I'd like to override the UI colors when writing in a list or a field. Do I have to write with a custom routine, using WinDrawChars, or is there some easier way? -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: NSBasic

2002-12-10 Thread Ed Greenberg
I went to the nsbasic website, but lost interest when I saw that it had a 100K runtime. --On Tuesday, December 10, 2002 1:15 PM -0700 Dustin Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's no reason to take it off-line. You can't convince me that it is fast or that the run-time is small, so there is

Re: WDBAS

2002-05-17 Thread Ed Lineberry
even exist yet? CodeWarrior's page on it was very descriptive (including price!) and helpful, but you can't deploy a solution with the CodeWarrior package. I'm wondering if it's still in the late vaporware stage If I get any info, I'll make sure to pass it along. - Ed - Original Message

Re: Urgent - Category problem

2002-04-11 Thread Ed Lineberry
for DmQueryNextInCategory? - Ed -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Basic C question

2002-04-02 Thread Ed
and local variables. Applications may access the area of the stack above the stack pointer, but not below it. All I want to to is get the value of encDate into record.Date. I cant see why this is failing unless I am missing something. Any ideas? Thanks, Ed. John Leung wrote: Try replace

ASCII Value

2002-04-02 Thread Ed
Is there a function that takes in an ASCII value and spits out the character? Sort of like the Chr$() function in VB... Maybe I missed it. Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Basic C question

2002-04-01 Thread Ed
With the code below, I get the following error: just read from memory location 0x003CD32, which is in the unused portion of the stack. The stack range is ... - ... and the stack pointer is ... This does not happen everytime. Any ideas? Thanks, Ed. Borislav Kolev wrote: The I can only

Re: Fixing 16-bit reference out of range errors

2002-03-27 Thread Ed Ross
that have used multi-segment apps, is there a noticeable delay or performance hit 2.) Can I share global variables between the two segments? Ed. Chris Ring wrote: There's a decent discussion of your options in the slides for Designing the Non-Simple Application from PalmSource 2002 at http

Popup Trigger

2002-03-26 Thread Ed Ross
setting the popuptrigger to fire, selecting the desired item. So - which way should I go about this, and am I even on the right track? Thanks, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Fixing 16-bit reference out of range errors

2002-03-26 Thread Ed Ross
the project to the necessary point. Any thoughts? Thanks, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Where are OS 5 preview tools?

2002-02-05 Thread Ed Lineberry
Actually, I believe it says that they _will_ be available. No time frame. I looked as well and couldn't find them Members of the Palm OS Developer Program will be able to download the following tools from the Palm OS website: - Ed

Re: My never ending struggle with menu bars and gcc/pilrc development

2002-01-25 Thread Ed Lineberry
i END END Pilrc compiles both without error or warning, but I _think_ the first is incorrect. At the very least it is different syntax than what's on the manual page at www.ardiri.com. HTH, Ed -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http

Re: pilrc issues

2002-01-23 Thread Ed Lineberry
a few of mine that pilrc thought were just fine. WRT the menu problem, I've never had that problem personally. Perhaps it would be useful to post the (relevant portions of) .rcp file? HTH, Ed -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http

Re: Sales, Handango, PGHQ

2001-10-25 Thread Ed Lineberry
. Not as dishonest as holding money owed to a developer for 3+ months, but two rights don't make a wrong -- or something like that. I think this is a great opportunity for someone to step in and be the next PG or Handango while doing it better and for less. Something will change. - Ed

Re: Formatting a floating point number to display as text with two de cimal places, i.e. calculating and displaying money

2001-10-25 Thread Ed Greenberg
At 06:09 PM 10/24/2001 -0700, you wrote: At 02:16 PM 10/19/2001 -0700, Ed Van Vliet wrote: I am trying to get a floating point number to display in a field with two decimal places. You and me both! The code below gets a number entered by a user and adds it to a total. The total is subsequently

Re: Formatting a floating point number to display as text with two de cimal places, i.e. calculating and displaying money

2001-10-24 Thread Ed Greenberg
At 02:16 PM 10/19/2001 -0700, Ed Van Vliet wrote: I am trying to get a floating point number to display in a field with two decimal places. You and me both! The code below gets a number entered by a user and adds it to a total. The total is subsequently displayed. It works OK but the answer

Re: Advantage Program

2001-10-23 Thread Ed Lineberry
Their website seems to be a mix of the old and new programs. I couldn't get to the linked dev programs below by navigating the site. My guess is it will take some time for the web people to catch up with the PR people. Did I read correct that there's no more hardware discount? - Ed

Re: Handango increase to 30%... take action!

2001-10-02 Thread Ed Greenberg
At 11:10 AM 10/2/2001 -0400, you wrote: (apologies for off topic) In case people are wondering, it is possible to have your software listed on Handango, but not for sale. Follow these steps in the product administration page: snip The product is listed now as 'freeware'. The 'buy now' and

Given a list value, find the numeric index in the list for that value

2001-09-24 Thread Ed Greenberg
work since the emulator complains that I'm looking at memory I shouldn't I don't want to force that through unless the consensus here is that it's proper in this case. What do others do? /edg Ed Greenberg -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http

Re: Given a list value, find the numeric index in the list for that value

2001-09-24 Thread Ed Greenberg
At 10:41 AM 9/24/2001 -0700, you wrote: There are several popup triggers and associated lists in the form. The actual list values (not the list index) is what's stored in the DB. I need to set the current value of the list, which requires an item number for LstSetSelection, as well as the text

Re: Given a list value, find the numeric index in the list for that value

2001-09-24 Thread Ed Greenberg
The above led me to realize that the way to retrieve the various entries in the list is to reset the selection to each one in turn using LstSetSelection. I hadn't connected with that. Thank you. Actually, answering my own question, it's easier than that. LstGetSelectionText takes an

Re: web browser for Palm

2001-09-20 Thread Ed Greenberg
At 08:29 PM 9/20/2001 +0530, you wrote: I have an application that I am trying to port to PalmOS (3.5 or 4.0). This application has certain features that are web-based. I need to invoke some server-side web-scripts that take parameters from my app and output HTML. I accomplish this on the desktop

Re: OT--RE: I hate to say I told you so but..

2001-09-17 Thread Ed Lineberry
Also, one of the important things about Palm is backward compatibility, and so far I have suffered minimum inconvenience for Palm, while I have stopped using my own WinCE devices altogether. Maybe this is where Palm has truly missed the boat. What better way to boost hardware sales than to

Re: I hate to say I told you so but..

2001-09-14 Thread Ed Lineberry
the low end market. An 8 MB Palm V at around $150 might get new users hooked. Let them upgrade to color and sound when they're ready to spend more money. - Ed -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Re: pdb to MS access

2001-09-12 Thread Ed Greenberg
At 09:41 AM 9/12/01 +0530, Shaikh Khurram Saghir wrote: Different solutions are appropriate for different situations. What will happen if the database does not reside on the local system where the user syncs his device. Thank you for reminding me of several issues. Note: I am using Excel

Re: pdb to MS access

2001-09-11 Thread Ed Greenberg
At 05:01 PM 9/11/2001 +0530, you wrote: Well, Just from the top of my mind. You can write comma separated files at the dekstop during synchornization or directly from your PDB files and we all very know that one can import the CSV files in MS access. Regards, Khurram+ Couldn't he write a

Re: FldGetTextPtr / FldGetTextHandle

2001-08-25 Thread Ed Greenberg
At 04:10 PM 8/25/2001 +0200, you wrote: Can I safely do this on a non-editable field ? The documentation let me thing it's not forbidden, but... is it safe ? Yes, it's safe. I learned it in the developers class in order to initialize labels that I wanted to be right justified and bold.

Re: PRC-tools and GCC will not work

2001-08-22 Thread Ed Lineberry
Sorry, Christian. I didn't mean to confuse anyone or slander your product. Next time I'll check the archive before naming names. :) - Ed -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

pilrc-edit and PRC-Tools to CW

2001-08-22 Thread Ed Lineberry
of this and the PilRC Plugin for CW may make this an acceptable GUI dev environment. Also, with the Pilrc Plugin, I miss the -h command line option. Is there any plan to add this functionality, or is it even possible? Thanks, Ed -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums

Followon to DB question - when to open and close DBs

2001-08-22 Thread Ed Greenberg
is the best procedure. Thanks, /edg Ed Greenberg -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Re: Using CVS with Code Warrior 7

2001-08-22 Thread Ed Greenberg
-0500, Ben Combee wrote: Ed Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:60459@palm-dev-forum... I have a project in a CVS repository that I would like to get at with Codewarrior7. I installed the CVS plugin and I can successfully log into the CVS server, but CW doesn't offer

Re: pilrc-edit and PRC-Tools to CW

2001-08-22 Thread Ed Lineberry
rob is in the UK right now from memory.. email him :) if you want to support the product.. make changes and send him patches - thats how free software works.. :) I would love to support and contribute. But I'm happy with vanilla PilRC and before I suggested this as a good solution for my

Re: PRC-tools and GCC will not work

2001-08-21 Thread Ed Lineberry
that was incompatible with PRC-Tools, so you might need to uninstall. My memory may be wrong on this, so check the archives. HTH - Ed -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Using CVS with Code Warrior 7

2001-08-21 Thread Ed Greenberg
I have a project in a CVS repository that I would like to get at with Codewarrior7. I installed the CVS plugin and I can successfully log into the CVS server, but CW doesn't offer the same choices on the VCS menu as in their documentation. For instance, there is no checkout feature -- not

Re: looking for Plonk!'s author

2001-08-15 Thread Ed Lineberry
You might try: http://www.alcita.com/palmpilot/ and: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good luck! -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Re: TimGetSeconds in year 2036?

2001-08-13 Thread Ed Lineberry
Finally an answer to that age-old question: What do people at the top of the world worry about? Shouldn't you be out wrestling polar bears or something? :) Really I'm just jealous. Off I go to sit in traffic for another 2 hours. - Ed

Re: what can drain the new batteries in 3 days?

2001-08-13 Thread Ed Lineberry
under normal use, even using a poorly written app. As for the virus FUD, I think there is still only one reported instance of a PalmOS virus in the wild, and I don't think it could drain the batteries instantly. - Ed Hi guys, I feel certain applications

FrmGetControlGroupSelection, 4.0 Docs, and PilRC Bug ?!?

2001-08-07 Thread Ed Lineberry
the group name to 1, and then the function worked fine. Is this a PilRC bug? ;) Hi, Aaron :) Is this a documentation problem? Or am I an idiot? All of the above? My code works now, so this question is just academic. - Ed -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe

Re: Want Information for memory and modem

2001-07-18 Thread Ed Lineberry
of this application goes. MIDP is something we were looking into and I'd like to hear feedback (on or off list) from others who have tried it. There is also a Java for the PalmOS forum, but if the archives on eScribe are correct, it's not very active. Hope This Helps, Ed --- Original Message

Re: Where to find FloatToString? (FplFToA no good)

2001-06-06 Thread Ed Lineberry
I found this in the archives some time back, but I couldn't find the original message to reference. Apologies to the orginal author. Here's the code: #ifdef UNIX #define StrChr(x,y) strchr(x,y) #define StrCopy(x,y) strcpy(x,y) #define StrLen(x) strlen(x) #include stdlib.h #include

Re: TimSetSeconds doesn't work

2001-06-06 Thread Ed Lineberry
, this function sends a sysNotifyTimeChangeEvent if the Notification Manager feature is present. Maybe another app isn't handling this. HTH, Ed Helmut Giritzer

Re: XML parser written in C ?

2001-06-04 Thread Ed Lineberry
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Data_Formats/Markup_Languages/XML/Tools/Parsers/ - Ed Hi: Thanks for the useful link. I must most certainly look into using the Aelfred parser. However, could anyone direct me to a C library implementation of an xml parser? It would be greatly

Re: Meet Ben Combee Tonight at Atlanta Palm Developer's Group!

2001-05-22 Thread Ed Lineberry
Great idea! I live in Atlanta and this would give me a chance to finally get a copy of |HaCkMe| 1.0. (Sorry, Aaron. Couldn't resist.) - Ed Aaron, We would love to have you as a guest speaker! Just say when and I will set it up. Jon C. Zaring [EMAIL PROTECTED] 404.431.5915 US Aaron

Re: Sort does not work consistently (Solved! Thanks!)

2001-05-17 Thread Ed Lineberry
Thanks, Mark! That solved my problem. If I had bothered to read the DmCompareF documentation I could have solved it myself. But I assumed that since it worked on reset that my DmCompareF function was working correctly. I don't even want to know why it did what it did. - Ed Ed Lineberry

Re: @stake ridiculousness

2001-03-05 Thread Ed Lineberry
handheld device in existence. - Ed Brian Mathis [EMAIL PROTECTED

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