Re: Private structType in Cobalt

2004-03-01 Thread Ben Combee
At 09:25 PM 3/1/2004, you wrote: > You have to give up some of the freedom of knowing exactly how Palm OS > works in order to free it to grow, have more functionality, and become a > better user experience. > All I am suggesting is allowing some room for Hacks (Patches). Another suggestion is to su

Re: Private structType in Cobalt

2004-03-01 Thread LionScribe
> You have to give up some of the freedom of knowing exactly how Palm OS > works in order to free it to grow, have more functionality, and become a > better user experience. > All I am suggesting is allowing some room for Hacks (Patches). Another suggestion is to supply for every structure a uniqu

Re: Private structType in Cobalt

2004-03-01 Thread Ben Combee
At 08:40 PM 3/1/2004, you wrote: I really hope that PalmSource is planning to create many Glue functions, to access private internal data, or else what are Patches worth? I would suggest a single function per structure, that returns a structure of pointers to all internal values. What do you th

Re: Private structType in Cobalt

2004-03-01 Thread LionScribe
I really hope that PalmSource is planning to create many Glue functions, to access private internal data, or else what are Patches worth? I would suggest a single function per structure, that returns a structure of pointers to all internal values. What do you think? LionScribe "Ben Combee" <[E

RE: Private structType in Cobalt

2004-03-01 Thread Scott Johnson
From: Ben Combee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Ben Combee, senior DTS engineer, PalmSource, Inc. > Read "Combee on Palm OS" at http://palmos.combee.net/ Nice new sig! :-) -slj- -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev

Re: Private structType in Cobalt

2004-03-01 Thread Ben Combee
At 06:25 PM 3/1/2004, Brad Figler wrote: Ben Combee wrote: You could always do that using FldGetAttributes/FldSetAttributes -- the FieldAttrType structure isn't part of the protected set. According to the OS 5.0 documentation that I have installed on my machine, FieldAttrType is part of the prot

Re: Private structType in Cobalt

2004-03-01 Thread Brad Figler
Ben Combee wrote: You could always do that using FldGetAttributes/FldSetAttributes -- the FieldAttrType structure isn't part of the protected set. According to the OS 5.0 documentation that I have installed on my machine, FieldAttrType is part of the protected set. At least the warning is at t

Re: Private structType in Cobalt

2004-03-01 Thread Ben Combee
At 02:12 AM 3/1/2004, you wrote: I have not delved deeply in to the new OS (yet). However, I hope that PalmSource does a better job of providing functions to get at some of the attributes of their private structures. I don't know how many times I have wanted to see if an attribute was set in fie

Re: Private structType in Cobalt

2004-03-01 Thread Brad Figler
Ben Combee wrote: > I fully expect the in-memory structures for forms and their objects to > change a lot in the future on Palm OS Cobalt. For example, PalmSource > has indicated that there would be some kind of user interface refresh in > a future release. To do that, it's likely that a lot of t

Re: Private structType in Cobalt

2004-02-29 Thread Ben Combee
At 09:12 PM 2/29/2004, you wrote: Why is PalmSource so intent in hiding the struct definition of all types (form, control, field, etc.) in the Cobalt release? Is it still going to change? I fully expect the in-memory structures for forms and their objects to change a lot in the future on Palm OS C