how to handle long pulldown lists...

2004-03-26 Thread John J. Corelli
Good afternoon all I'm using a popup trigger to display a group of options in a pulldown. The problem I now have is that my group of item in the list generates a pulldown that is longer than the screen. Any suggestions on how to better handle this UI control? I don't suppose you can make

testing post - delete me.

2003-10-24 Thread John J. Corelli
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RE: newbie table question

2003-07-30 Thread John J. Corelli
It would help if you could post your code - *how* you are trying to do it is just as important as what you are trying to do. Tables can be tricky initially, but I end up using a boilerplate for my table functions. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Database problem on startup.

2003-07-08 Thread John J. Corelli
I'm developing a conduit to copy some data onto the handheld into a newly created database (the conduit handles that for me). However when I start up the app (which opens/creates the database), I get a dmErrNotValidRecord error back and the current POSE session crashes. I understand that reading

RE: A bit off-topic, not not really

2003-07-07 Thread John J. Corelli
Have you looked at the printers used in point of sale for car rental companies? I realize they're integrated with the whole unit, but depending on how many you need, you may be able to get just the printer from the companies that make those units. Of course, re-reading your post, it sounds like

off-topic desktop question...

2003-06-24 Thread John J. Corelli
Playing with the conduits and such, I'm wondering this: When I make changes to my Address book or Memo Pad, where does that data actually exist? In user subdirectory, the files there are only updated during a HotSync operation. Where does the Desktop application actually

Disabling IRBeaming from AppLauncher

2003-06-21 Thread John J. Corelli
I've been reading the docs and various books about getting IRBeaming into my application (to send databases). I was wondering if there is a programmatic way to prevent the main OS App Launcher from beaming my application itself. Anyone had experience with this? John -- For information on

GPS Springboard of choice?

2001-11-14 Thread John J. Corelli
Aside from what I've been reading about the various GPS Springboard modules for the Handspring, I was wondering if anyone out here has some helpful opinions or experience with any of them. Any strong likes or dislikes for the GPS modules that are out there? Thanks, John -- For information

RE: Can an application determine whether it is running on POSE...

2001-08-07 Thread John J. Corelli
You might be able to ping the IRDA hardware as it is not supported on POSE. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eric W. Sirko Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 12:58 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Can an application determine whether it is

RE: Can an application determine whether it is running on POSE...

2001-08-07 Thread John J. Corelli
Developer Forum Subject: RE: Can an application determine whether it is running on POSE... Ping the IRDA hardware... What does that mean??? -- Keith At 1:11 PM -0400 8/7/01, John J. Corelli wrote: You might be able to ping the IRDA hardware as it is not supported on POSE. -Original

RE: word of warning

2001-08-03 Thread John J. Corelli
Interstingly enough, I have also received this virus warning. Is there a virus out there that's harvesting email addresses from the forum? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave Lippincott Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 9:29 AM To: Palm

Handspring USB HotSync in Win2k

2001-07-26 Thread John J. Corelli
Hi Forum - I've got some issues with trying to sync my Visor with my new Win2k box. I've been around the block with a couple of approaches and still am having problems. I've been in touch with Handspring support which helped out a little bit to get additional USB drivers unloaded, but I still

RE: Crappy Forum LOL

2001-07-26 Thread John J. Corelli
Hey, thanks Jeremy. I might actually use this site! John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeremy Nuss Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 2:26 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: RE: Crappy Forum LOL In the midst of all this I had a newbie

RE: palmos api keyword listing posted

2001-07-25 Thread John J. Corelli
Cool. That *does* look useful. Thanks again Hal. John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Burmeister Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 8:07 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: RE: palmos api keyword listing posted From: Hal Mueller

RE: How are IRQs mapped in Palm device?

2001-07-18 Thread John J. Corelli
I don't have the answer to your question, but IMHO this would seem *really* too hardware specific and could get you in trouble down the road as Palm could move IRQs around in later devices. Of course if your application is just a one-off to use in the lab or something and you don't ever plan on

RE: Trademarks

2001-07-11 Thread John J. Corelli
Just make sure you don't infringe on my Pomb apps :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 9:45 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: RE: Trademarks That is way I write Pom apps -Original Message-

Software retitling and version numbers

2001-07-11 Thread John J. Corelli
My question this morning for the group is this: If I go ahead and rename a piece of software I have out there, what do I do about the version numbering? What's the general practice/idea out there? John -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

RE: Software retitling and version numbers

2001-07-11 Thread John J. Corelli
and version numbers IMHO Keep the current version number scheme. Treat the name change like a bug fix. Don't start back with v1.0 - Original Message - From: John J. Corelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 9:57 AM Subject

RE: Can Palm Inc own the word Palm ?

2001-07-10 Thread John J. Corelli
From the actual document to which Brian was referring: Trademark Guidelines for Solution Providers Naming Your Product or Company To ensure the protection of our branding eff o rts, we have imposed the follow-ing guidelines on the usage of Palm brand identities. You may not use Palm, Palm OS,

RE: Shareware pricing?

2001-07-05 Thread John J. Corelli
...okay, so I see where the target pricing is located for the time being. I'm not sure we have qualified the *type* of software to be priced in certain brackets though. What about software that includes a conduit? Do you charge separately for the conduit? I'm thinking of scenarios where you

RE: Shareware pricing?

2001-07-05 Thread John J. Corelli
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bradly J. Barton Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 9:45 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Shareware pricing? From: John J. Corelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm thinking of scenarios where you could offer the handheld software for free (or some nominal

RE: Newbie: How to tell if string is numeric.

2001-07-05 Thread John J. Corelli
I'm guessing you have looked extensively through the reference for a single function to do this and have simply overlooked the low level functions that you can use in order to write your own function in 'C' to do this. ;) You're going to have to loop through the string to the terminating '\0'

Shareware pricing?

2001-07-02 Thread John J. Corelli
Greetings all - Can anyone suggest how one would properly set up pricing for a piece of shareware s/w - like what you see on PalmGear? I see a lot of the games range in price anywhere from $5 to $15. Some of the applications have an even bigger spread. For the ones out there in the community

RE: Disabling System Timer

2001-06-29 Thread John J. Corelli
If you're talking about disabling the auto sleep function, just do: UInt NumSeconds = 0; SysSetAutoOffTime(NumSeconds); The zero value of the argument disables the timer. That's my stab, but I'm not sure if that's really what you were asking. Keep an eye out for more posts. I'm not totally

RE: Ascii Chart

2001-06-29 Thread John J. Corelli
Version 2.0.3 of AsciiChart reports making fixes for Palm OS 3.5 http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=82722920010423124509p rodID=217 Regards, John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of William F. Weiher Sent: Friday, June

RE: Disabling System Timer

2001-06-29 Thread John J. Corelli
- From: John J. Corelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 10:47 AM Subject: RE: Disabling System Timer If you're talking about disabling the auto sleep function, just do: UInt NumSeconds = 0; SysSetAutoOffTime(NumSeconds); The zero value

RE: Database Index

2001-06-29 Thread John J. Corelli
The documentation of DmGetDatabase says: Call this routine to retrieve the database ID of a database by index. The index should range from 0 to DmNumDatabases-1. This routine is useful for getting a directory of all databases on a card. The databases returned may reside in either the ROM or the

Accessing other application's icons

2001-06-29 Thread John J. Corelli
Hi all - I want to display the icons of the default applications that are tied to the four h/w application buttons on the bottom of the device. Going through the docs I see I need to use a call to get a handle to the icon resource using DmGetResource(), but how do I get the resource to an icon

RE: applications category

2001-06-29 Thread John J. Corelli
Is this a good idea if the category doesn't exist on the device? What happens then? When you beam or hot sync install, the app is always put into the Unfiled category, right? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Wilson Sent: Friday,

RE: I don't quite understand this

2001-06-27 Thread John J. Corelli
Just to cover the bases, you are including the Day.h and SelDay.h files as needed, right? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jimi Malcolm Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 4:14 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: I don't quite understand this

Looking for feedback in UI question

2001-06-27 Thread John J. Corelli
I have a form with a few popup lists from which the user selects different classes of items (ie. each list is a different grouping of related items). For example: List Grouping = Produce Items = Apple, Peach, Banana List Grouping = Dairy Items =

RE: character string to hexadecimal string

2001-06-26 Thread John J. Corelli
If you don't want to just use: char string[20]; int value; StrCopy(string, hi there whats up !) value = StrAToI(string); to convert the whole string, then you'll have to iterate through and get the ASCII value of each character *in* the string. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

POSE skins

2001-06-26 Thread John J. Corelli
I'm running a fairly recent version of POSE (3.1) and I see I have a whole bunch of skins installed in the proper skins folder. But when I try to switch to, say, one of the Handspring skins via POSE (right click-Settings-Skins), I get only the Generic, English and Japanese options in the skins

RE: POSE skins

2001-06-26 Thread John J. Corelli
Okay, so I guess my problem is how do I emulate a Visor? I've downloaded several more ROMs, but nothing is identified as being Handspring specific (or any other non-Palm model). John On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, John J. Corelli wrote: I'm running a fairly recent version of POSE (3.1) and I see I

RE: Sounds On the Palm

2001-06-25 Thread John J. Corelli
The Sound manager is the way to do it. Take a look at the archives - this has been talked about fairly recently. Specifically, here is some sample code posted last Friday (I'm sure there's more) This was originally posted by Richard Burmeister . To do what I think you are trying to do, I use

RE: Button Bug?

2001-06-25 Thread John J. Corelli
Some sample code snippets might be useful here. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Randy Eaton Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 1:10 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Button Bug? I have an intermittent problem when dynamically creating

RE: small application icons

2001-06-25 Thread John J. Corelli
and it doesn't impact any other icons in list mode. The Palm OS programming book, from the Ground up shows how to use small icons. Page 72-73. I think you need to set both the BW and Color options in the IDE. -Original Message- From: John J. Corelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June

RE: small application icons

2001-06-25 Thread John J. Corelli
Burmeister Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 3:44 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: RE: small application icons From: John J. Corelli I've been through the KB as well as the email archive and can't find the information I need for doing small icons. Yes, in the KB I found an article describing

RE: Creating .pdb's externally.

2001-06-22 Thread John J. Corelli
Steve (or anybody) - The question I have regarding this subject, and your product, is that if I put together an application which would require the user to import their own CSV database, (using p-rad for example), how would I distribute the app without p-rad? For these types of utilities, what

RE: Creating .pdb's externally.

2001-06-22 Thread John J. Corelli
The question I have regarding this subject, and your product, is that if I put together an application which would require the user to import their own CSV database, (using p-rad for example), how would I distribute the app without p-rad? Sorry, that wasn't clear from your initial question (or

checkbox usage in a Table

2001-06-20 Thread John J. Corelli
I have a table made up of N rows and 3 columns. Column 1: Item # Column 2: checkbox UI element Column 3: Name of a Task I want to use the checkbox in column 2 that I programmatically check or uncheck based on whether the task has been done. I have a few questions about the approach. First of

RE: Database deleting

2001-06-20 Thread John J. Corelli
I guess the question *I* would have is, how do you end up with an open database *without* a DmOpenRef? How can I delete a database that is open when I don't have a DmOpenRef to it? TIA Ralph Krausse Expo International, Inc. 110 Shawmut Road Canton, MA 02021 telephone (781) 821-6653

DB record insertion

2001-06-13 Thread John J. Corelli
I'm having problems _updating_ the contents of an existing record in my database. I've looked through the archives on this one and found a post that talked about using DmAttachRecord along with the regular DB Manager functions to make this happen. [from the archive snip] Another

RE: DB record insertion w/code

2001-06-13 Thread John J. Corelli
[from the archive snip] Another alternative to modify an existing record is to: 1) Use DmNewHandle to create a chunk to contain the new contents of the record. 2) Use MemHandleLock, DmWrite, and MemHandleUnlock to fill in the contents of the new record. 3) Use DmAttachRecord to put replace

CW6 running on Win2000

2001-06-09 Thread John J. Corelli
Greetings again (BTW: Happy B-day Aaron) - I'm back to running my dev tools on my win2k box. I'm running CW-R6 with the latest version of POSE (3.1). I've gone through the process of installing the necessary updates and Debugger plugins, but my debugger environment is still not stable. When I

Timer latency question

2001-06-09 Thread John J. Corelli
Hello developers - I have a stopwatch timer that is controlled by the application buttons (start/stop and split functions). At the POSE level, I am seeing anywhere between 30 to 110 milliseconds latency from the time I 'press' on a split button to the time when the application loop comes around

more Timer Latency...

2001-06-09 Thread John J. Corelli
I'm guessing my problems with the latency of the reaction time of the s/w versus the real time has to do with the OS getting and servicing the interrupt. I don't want to get down to the hardware of the on-board timer to get more accurate timing down to 10 msecs. (this can only cause problems

RE: POSE and win2k

2001-04-25 Thread John J. Corelli
Two solutions: 1) Use a different ROM image. Some don't have this digitizer check, others do. I'll take a look at different ROM images, but I'm running the same version on both machines (my NT and Win 2k boxes) 2) Save your POSE session and set POSE to auto-reload. This will save the

POSE and win2k

2001-04-24 Thread John J. Corelli
Hi All - I have two boxes - an NT machine and a win2k machine both running CW-R6 and the latest version of POSE. I have done the additional installations to my win2k box to address some of the CW issues that were present (3.5 SDK, Update 1, and the Debugger Plugins). But my POSE running on the

Application's title in Launcher

2001-04-18 Thread John J. Corelli
I just got back to picking up my software after a while and I want to change the application name that shows up in the launcher window.This is independent of the project name (which I do not want to affect). How do you do this through the Code Warrior environment? I don't think the tutorial

RE: Application's title in Launcher

2001-04-18 Thread John J. Corelli
Subject: RE: Application's title in Launcher From: John J. Corelli I want to change the application name that shows up in the launcher window. This is independent of the project name (which I do not want to affect). How do you do this through the Code Warrior environment? Change

Visor Diag board - Is the seller out here

2000-12-19 Thread John J. Corelli
I saw up on eBay that there is someone selling a springboard diagnostic extender card. He says he got it at Palm Source 2000 as part of a bundled Handspring kit. I sent him mail from the eBay site, but wondered if he's out here somewhere on the forum. If you are send me a message off line. I'm

Palm Source web aware?

2000-12-18 Thread John J. Corelli
For those of us who didn't get to make the trip: Does anyone know if there was any mention at PS 2000 that there would be postings of any of the technical sessions or keynote addresses up on the Palm Source site? Thanks John -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to

RE: CW r7.

2000-12-18 Thread John J. Corelli
Is the policy of 'buy version x and get x+1 free' still in effect? (e.g.. buy r6 and get r7 in the mail) According to one of the Metrowerks folks I talked to at PalmSource, "this is the 21st century." Interpretation: no. I thought Heather posted here last week that if you bought R6 within

RE: Palm Project Available

2000-12-07 Thread John J. Corelli
--Alan this reminds me of my contracting days. can you imagine a more ridiculous project than playing a video on a Palm? I never said you could not p*** up a stick. Just that it was a bad idea. For the same reason, most of the springboard modules currently on the market will fail. You

MemoPad Database clarification

2000-12-07 Thread John J. Corelli
Looking through the tutorial I was figuring out how the database stuff works. Going through Neil's book, in contrast, I see some missing pieces in the tutorial MemoPad project that I wanted to get clarification on. (I know I'm just missing something here...) In the MemoPad example (CW

RE: Conduit error example

2000-12-07 Thread John J. Corelli
For starters, you might want to try posting this on the Conduit Dev Forum, although I know several of the guys on that list are also on this one. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Timothy Boyle (ICWAY) Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000

RE: Palm Programming Book Raffle

2000-12-07 Thread John J. Corelli
Hey that's cool! I actually won something online! Thanks Steve! I'll be looking for it in the mail! John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Mann Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 12:04 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Palm

RE: Interesting Salon Article

2000-12-07 Thread John J. Corelli
The folks who wrote TinySheet (or any of the Excel derivatives) did this didn't they? Of course, have fun trying to get a -free- code snippet. ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 1:43 PM

RE: FAQ

2000-12-04 Thread John J. Corelli
Wow! Thanks for the information Adam. Everything you wanted to know about the forum but were afraid of getting flamed... ;) John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adam Wozniak Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 12:19 PM To: Palm Developer

RE: PC App from a Palm App.

2000-12-04 Thread John J. Corelli
Hmmm...well, you would be looking at a major design task to support all the Palm OS API calls. I would think using MSVC++ is as good a place to start as any (you'll get many opinions on this). But I wouldn't think the environment would be as critical as the code itself. As I mentioned, you're

RE: [W] Palm Application Icon

2000-12-01 Thread John J. Corelli
Can't you just go into the original project and do a cut and paste of the old icon into a brand new application icon in the new resource file (via Constructor of course)? John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Stover Sent: Friday,

RE: Resize of Array

2000-12-01 Thread John J. Corelli
These are just my thoughts If you *truly* don't know how big the array should be at declaration time...I would think that you would have to use some kind of dynamic memory allocation technique either by using a linked list or some kind of data structure that allows a dynamic growth to your

RE: Graphics

2000-12-01 Thread John J. Corelli
You just create the bitmap like you would any other resource. Once you create and select the new Bitmap Resource in Constructor, you select Options|Set Image Size from the Constructor system menu. Specify 160 x 160 and you're ready to roll. If you have a form created, you grab a Form Bitmap

RE: Multi-Segment

2000-12-01 Thread John J. Corelli
Try starting with this: http://oasis.palm.com/dev/kb/papers/1469.cfm John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lee, Eric Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 4:45 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Multi-Segment From what I understand, any

RE: New Entry

2000-11-28 Thread John J. Corelli
Try spending some time in the Developer's section of www.palmos.com Also, you will want to search the archives to see the various discussions about different development tools (pros, cons, etc). Once you've got your development environment in place, use the knowledge base, read postings from

RE: Search Function

2000-11-28 Thread John J. Corelli
If you mean the 'Find' function that is included on the silkscreen, there is an example of that in the Palm tutorial that comes with Code Warrior. Otherwise you might also find it in the Knowledge Base. John Hi all, Does anyone of u have a sample search program? I would like to add a

I know I'm missing something....

2000-11-21 Thread John J. Corelli
As someone earlier posted, a lot can be gleaned from the Formats example when adding Preference UI to an application. I went and looked at the project and even dropped it into CW. Taking a look at the source and header files, I can see how certain tasks are done with the app's preference

RE: newbie list down arrow

2000-11-20 Thread John J. Corelli
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal If you're looking to just get rid of the arrow... If you change the number of items displayed in the list to meet or exceed the actual number if items that exist in the list, you'll be able to get rid of the down arrow

RE: M100 16 greys?

2000-11-17 Thread John J. Corelli
Heather - I'm using Constructor 1.5 -and- defining 2-bpp depth bitmaps using a bitmap family, but I still needed to put on the /-2/ prefix to the icons I wanted to have the additional two shades of grey. (??) John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Creating the list icon for an application.

2000-11-16 Thread John J. Corelli
I assume you are using Code Warrior. In Constructor, the main application icon id is 1000. The smaller list icon id is 1001 You cannot change these as the OS expects to use those. To create the list icon, select the Icons resource in the resource window of your project then on the System menu

Re: Palm Source Anyone?

2000-11-16 Thread John J. Corelli
This brings up a question I have. As I am unable to attend Palm Source (at least this year) will there be any online sources of information that are presented at the show? I guess I could keep checking the Palm Source web site for more info, but I figured I'd throw it out there now just to see

RE: Update field's contents

2000-11-14 Thread John J. Corelli
Doesn't your text pointer need to be initialized with text as a character array: char text[10]; ?? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Tu Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 1:58 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Update field's

RE: converting float

2000-11-14 Thread John J. Corelli
Well, during the last couple of weeks, you would surf the various postings that have appeared regarding this topic (you would have seen this done quite a few times). Or you can check the archives for other approaches. Basically: void MyFunc() { float fnum; char textnum[5];

RE: converting float

2000-11-14 Thread John J. Corelli
By the way, I forgot to include several of the perfunctory ":)" emoticons. I hope you didn't take me *too* seriously. I didn't mean to take a dig on anyone. But keep in mind there *is* a lot of information in the archives (it's so much, it can be hard to find what you're looking for).

RE: How do I convert a string to a number floating

2000-11-13 Thread John J. Corelli
try this... float num; char str[5]; StrSprintf(str,"%1.2f",num); John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 12:09 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: How do I convert a string to a

RE: How do I convert a string to a number floating

2000-11-13 Thread John J. Corelli
Richard nailed it on the head with the scaled by 100 factor approach. John Hello, Could you help me, please!!! How do I convert a string like "7.41" into a number floating like 7.41 instead 7.40 Regards, Marco -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to

RE: How do I convert a string to a number floating

2000-11-13 Thread John J. Corelli
whoops - I guess I had that backwards. (I thought you were going from number to string) John Hello, Could you help me, please!!! How do I convert a string like "7.41" into a number floating like 7.41 instead 7.40 Regards, Marco -- For information on using the Palm Developer

RE: question about event timing

2000-11-09 Thread John J. Corelli
ecuted one after another. Hence why for long operations, they recommend giving some kind of visual indication that the app is busy, and can't update the form, handle buttons, and whatever. -Original Message----- From: John J. Corelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 20

Event Queue size

2000-11-08 Thread John J. Corelli
Post Election Greetings from the swing state! (and we're still counting 'em up down here in FL)- I'm having a problem in my event loop. In my main event processing loop, I am getting events with a 10 tick timeout (EvtGetEvent()) so that I can get nilEvents and update an on-screen timer. In

question about event timing

2000-11-08 Thread John J. Corelli
This is related to my earlier post. If the timeout of the event loop is set to some positive value, I understand that if the timeout is reached, you will get a nilEvent. do { EvtGetEvent(event, 100); // after 100 ticks, you'll get a nilEvent in the event structure

RE: Actual Icon Sizes

2000-11-03 Thread John J. Corelli
Make sure you also specify the icon sizes in the Application Icon Families section of Constructor. For example, even if you draw your 15 x 9 small icon, unless you also specify the size in the AIF panel, the OS will allow the largest space for it and will clip text or objects that appear above

RE: Date Form

2000-11-02 Thread John J. Corelli
Make sure you have a valid enumerated value for selectDayBy. Remember that you can pass any of the following values in that argument: selectDayByDay selectDayByWeek selectDayByMonth Could you post a code fragment so we can see what you have so far? It would help greatly

database tool for development

2000-10-31 Thread John J. Corelli
I have a Microsoft Access database that can generate any kind of table I need. Specifically, I am thinking of using a CSV formatted file to get information back and forth to the Palm. My question is, what kind of database tools should I be looking for in order to run the database on the

point me in the right direction

2000-10-31 Thread John J. Corelli
Greetings all - I'm looking for into or any other good starting point information on being able to Hot Sync a handheld to a data base. I envision that I could have a CSV file on the desktop which I would want to get onto the Palm. I know I need to write a conduit for this and have started to

POSE problems

2000-10-27 Thread John J. Corelli
I'm running 3.0a6 of POSE and I just started having problems connecting to it from within the CW IDE. I've shut down everything and even rebooted (the old push the car back up the hill syndrome). I'm getting transport timeout errors right now. I have the project settings configured to connect

Application Icon

2000-10-26 Thread John J. Corelli
Good Morning All! I figured out how to rename my application icon on the main Launcher within Constructor. But I was unable to set my AppIcon to a newly created icon. In the Constructor project settings window, I see where it appears that you can set the ID of the icon you actually want

small application icons?

2000-10-26 Thread John J. Corelli
As a follow up question to my earlier post, I was trying to figure out how to define and set the small application icon that appears when you change the application viewer preferences to show apps by list (and not their icon). This is when the small icons come up. I see that all the system apps

RE: small application icons?

2000-10-26 Thread John J. Corelli
"John J. Corelli" wrote: As a follow up question to my earlier post, I was trying to figure out how to define and set the small application icon that appears when you change the application viewer preferences to show apps by list (and not their icon). This is when the small icons come

Trapping hardware application buttons

2000-10-25 Thread John J. Corelli
Hello All - Digging through the Reference Guide and Companion document that both come with Code Warrior, I found the keymgr.h defines for the application hardware buttons (the address, calendar, page up, page down etc.). Now I am trying to figure out how to trap these events and use these

RE: [Q] Why is this difficult???

2000-10-25 Thread John J. Corelli
I'll take a stab at this one and in the spirit of "paying it forward" hope I can help someone else on this forum as I have been helped in the past (very recently with just this exact problem) Use a character array to handle your text. One such solution could be: #include stringmgr.h static

RE: [Q] Why is this difficult???

2000-10-25 Thread John J. Corelli
Of course this is the result from a computation and I would like to be able to print the results in a textfield. Jay The code snippet I posted (with obvious mods) should handle it with little change. The only other thing I left out was the conversion from your floating point result to the

this is getting really bad now...

2000-10-24 Thread John J. Corelli
Now I have about 13 duplicate messages from Jaco Vis. Has anyone addressed this on the forum yet? I wouldn't know because I have a couple hundred messages to sift through every hour. John -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Accessing String Manager?

2000-10-23 Thread John J. Corelli
Hello All- I'm trying to access functions in the String manager API and get a major failure at simulation time within POSE. I'm running Code Warrior R6 with version 3.0a6 of POSE. Here is my simplified code segment: #include Pilot.h #include StringMgr.h static Boolean

RE: what the--

2000-10-20 Thread John J. Corelli
I'm getting at least 3 copies. I posted about it the other day, but never saw my messege up on the board. What's up? John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 5:50 PM To: Palm Developer

multiple messages?

2000-10-19 Thread John J. Corelli
Okay, so for the last couple of days, I've been getting messages multiple times. I think I've seen the reponse from Heather about draining batteries 3 or 4 times. Anybody else have the same issue? Is this a Palm Dev Forum server problem? -- For information on using the Palm Developer

waterproof container?

2000-10-13 Thread John J. Corelli
Greetings all - I know there exists the "Otter" case for rugged *storage* of a Palm/Visor unit, but does anyone know of a package that provides some kind of minimal waterproofing/weather proofing that will still allow me to at least read the display and use the hardware buttons? I realize I

RE: 'BDWM' cannot be found.

2000-09-18 Thread John J. Corelli
I think there is a patch available for this that fixes the problem. I recall having to download a new plug in for the 3.5 SDK. I don't recall if I got the new plug-in from Palm's site or Metrowerks (I'm guessing the latter). John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Someone please help me

2000-08-02 Thread John J. Corelli
Of course it's a bogus message. Look at the "from" address and read it quickly: someass koolkarky some ass kool car key summa school car key --john ROTFL...god I hope this is a joke. --b "Someass Koolkarky" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:19633@palm-dev-forum... I'm new at

RE: (no subject)

2000-07-12 Thread John J. Corelli
Custom protocol or not, doesn't the API facilitate the ability to write your raw data out the port? If your protocol involves say, a special STX character followed by a byte count and the data and a checksum, and maybe even an end of text character you can still do this I think with the existing

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