I am looking for various system metrics type functions.. I think I have
found everything I need except for the screen resolution. What function
should I use to determine the color/grayscale capability of a device?
--
Bradly J. Barton - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jenies Technologies Incorporated
(9
Thank you very much to the respondents to this thread - its good to see that the
problem wasn't anything to do with my app per se.
On the downside, this is a problem that Palm need to address with a higher priority
than what its received so far. Let me explain
why.
My app has a button entitled
Jun-Kiat,
My other message was from the office, and so from memory - in case I mixed
something up, my configuration is:
Macintosh PowerBook G3/400 w/320MB ram, running virtual memory on set to
321MB.
Mac OS 8.6
CW IDE 4.0.2 set to 32,000KB Memory
POSE 3.0a6 set to 16,384 KB Memory
palmos35-dr4-
> Can we write conduits on Unix Platform.
Yes, although each Unix Palm Desktop has its own conduit architecture,
so unfortunately, conduits aren't portable between the various
desktops.
> What are the development tools
> available for it.
Nothing special; different desktops use different langua
Tim Lock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >SysCurAppDatabase will give you the card number and local ID of the
> >application's database.
>
> Just wondering why the LocalID variable that i receive back from the call
> is different to the creatorID of the application. Is there a way to get the
> cr
The only think I can think off right off hand is you might need to type cast
tempRec to a char*
In other words
record *tempRec;
tempRec (Ch
Sorted it out.
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Shende
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 8:49 PM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Basic Question
Hi.
I'm having a little trouble with "typedef" in relation to my record
retrieval fun
At 10:14 11/05/00 -0700, you wrote:
>SysCurAppDatabase will give you the card number and local ID of the
>application's database.
Just wondering why the LocalID variable that i receive back from the call
is different to the creatorID of the application. Is there a way to get the
creatorID from
Hi.
I'm having a little trouble with "typedef" in relation to my record
retrieval function. I have used typdef to create an alias for a struct as
follows
--
typedef struct{
In my program I keep a variable called "currentField".
Then whenever a field receives the focus (I forget the name
of the event) or one of my controls receives a ctlSelectEvent,
before I process the event, I call a function called losingFocus().
Inside this function I do my field validation on cur
At 08:27 1/06/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Check out the HwrMiscFlags.h header file. There are a number of defines
>in there that you can use in conjunction with the hardware calls (which
>are diagrammed in detail in the Palm OS Reference). Look near the bottom
>of the file...
thanks.. look pretty got
"Christopher Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:13185@palm-dev-forum...
> I've just had a look more into the PalmOS 3.0 source and
> note that FrmNewLabel, FrmNewBitmap and FrmNewGadget
> call FrmAddSpaceForObject, which in turn, calls PrvFixupPointers. However,
> none of these functi
"William F. Weiher III" wrote:
> If this problem happens in a non-reproducable manner (unless you are running
> on the emulator) and the alert contains more than one button,
This is indeed my scenario.
> it may just be
> the bug in the older rom versions of prvfixuppointers (or some such name).
Hi Frank,
>From the information provided, your setup looks rather confusing to me. You
have CW Pro 5.2 and CW for Palm R6 on the same system - are they merged? I
assume that you do, but just to check, you have all the Palm OS 3.5 plugins
installed as well right? I have Lite running on Mac OS 9.0
Dear Developers,
I am trying to get a response from the Palm Development team on this issue,
but I wanted to run it past all of you to see if you have run into the same
type of situation.
We have a Windows 98 PC running MS Outlook 2000 that several users are
syncing to. The problem and how to r
Thanks for your response - it sounds like ExgDBRead and ExgDBWrite are
exactly what I'm looking for!
Regards,
Mark Peters
in article 13161@palm-dev-forum, Danny Epstein at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote on 6/1/00 1:49 PM:
>
> "Mark A. Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:13155@palm-de
in article 13163@palm-dev-forum, Stephen Coffman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
on 6/1/00 1:49 PM:
> Mark A. Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:13155@palm-dev-forum...
>> It appears that what I should do is create a new resource database, create
>> a new resource within it, then res
> From: Hannes Frischat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> When I try to log in at ftp3.metrowerks.com it tells me
> that anonymus log in is not allowed. How do I get to the
> window with the user name?
Try this link: ftp://palm:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The docs have SerSetWakeupHandler as 'system use only' and don't list
SerPrimeWakeupHandler
They may have existed but were not documented.
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From: Bruce Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I've had some users ask about me using a function in one of my
programs that is similar to the CategoryEdit function.
It brings up a form, allows you to add and delete items, but has
sort, move up, and move down buttons.
I could've *sworn* I've seen this before, but after looking through
the do
> "". This used to work correctly (in R5 I think) so this is
a
> regression. Or is this working correctly for anyone else?
Not working for me.
> So is there a fix coming soon for this problem? It's extremely
annoying to
> not see OS function names in the call stack.
I have never needed to k
You are not alone. I don't see the names of ROM functions either. It's
been awhile since I used R5, but I don't remember it working in there
either. Maybe it did. Regardless, it definitely doesn't work for me in R6.
DeAnna
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMA
Hi Dave,
SerSetWakeupHandler and SerPrimeWakeupHandler have existed since
at least PalmOS 3.0. I believe you are confusing these with
SrmSetWakeupHandler and SrmPrimeWakeupHandler (Note the different
prefix, Ser vice Srm).
The documentation for the Srm calls is much more complete
re
Isn't "relocation truncated to fit" gcc's brain-dead way of saying
"function not found 'MyFunc'"? Someone can't spell/capitali(z|s)e, or just
plain forgot to write the function.
At 01:51 PM 6/1/00 -0700, you wrote:
>The message sounds more like too far a jump in your code. ".text" would
>seem t
Heather Tufts wrote:
> I just want to let you all know that there is a patch that has
> been made available for the debugger. It can be found at
> ftp3.metrowerks.com. Log in with the following:
Hmm...
When I try to log in at ftp3.metrowerks.com it tells me that anonymus log in is not
allowed.
Is it possible to change the size from 32767 bytes to 65000 bytes in
pilot.ld? The linker complains that the section is full, and I was
wondering if there are technical reasons for the limit.
Thanks,
Eugene.
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At 03:41 PM 6/1/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks but SyncWriteSysDateTime is the function I am using,
>and no luck. Any other suggestions.
Write the date/time into the AppData section of your database and use the
HotSync launch code (whatever it is) to update the date/time using the info
supplied in
Mark A. Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:13155@palm-dev-forum...
>
> It appears that what I should do is create a new resource database, create
a
> new resource within it, then resize it and write to it as data arrives
from
> the network. When the whole thing has been transferred
"Mark A. Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I want to do an on-demand transfer of a .pdb existing on a server (a .pdb
> that is otherwise suitable for installation via HotSync) to the handheld
> over a TCP/IP connection. Looking over the data manager API,
The message sounds more like too far a jump in your code. ".text" would
seem to imply the text segment and "DISP16" sounds a lot like 16 bit
displacement.
Instead of 'jump to address foo', the compiler is generating 'jump this far
from here' (or 'call the function this far from here'). Using re
Thanks but SyncWriteSysDateTime is the function I am using,
and no luck. Any other suggestions.
I am using the latest versions of the CDK and the lates Hotsync
*
Silvia Brunet
Lighthouse Technologies, Inc.
www.lhtek.com
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>From Prasad
-
Ya. I faced the same problem several times. I solved that the same way by
returning true in that Someformhandleevnt function. I again checked . its
working. Hope u will find the solution.
regards
Prasad
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From: Richard Burmeister <[EMAIL PROT
I want to do an on-demand transfer of a .pdb existing on a server (a .pdb
that is otherwise suitable for installation via HotSync) to the handheld
over a TCP/IP connection. Looking over the data manager API, it seems that
DmCreateDatabaseFromImage might be the key to doing this. It isn't clear t
Hello,
I am trying to use the FlashMgr resource in an application that I am
building in CW. How do I add this resource to my project.
The resource was built in GNU and I am able to use the Palm GNU tools to
achieve the desired results but have found no way in CW.
Any help would be greatly apprec
If you look at Event.h, then you should see
struct _GenericEventType generic;
and in SysEvent.h
struct _GenericEventType {
UInt16 datum[8];
};
--vivek
Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05/30/2000 06:07:04 PM
Please respond to "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROT
> From: Heather Tufts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> The Windows one fixes the annoying "can't
> debug twice on Win2000" problem.
Yay, it appears to work as advertised.
HOWEVER it still has the long-standing bug where the stack trace does not
display the names of ROM functions. Instead it shows o
>How do you trigger or queue validation code when the user navigates out of a
>field?
You can look for a FieldChangedEvent (not its actual name) or
intercept individual keystrokes as they come in.
> Any reference to best practices for programming field level
>validation would be appreciated.
Try SyncWriteSysDateTime. I haven't tried it, the reference says it does
work on HotSync versions prior to 2.2. Hope this helps!
Regards,
Steve
-Original Message-
From: Silvia Brunet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 2:22 PM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Tim
Jason's right on. Update to the 3.5sdk before you do this, because doing it
in CodeWarrior R6 without the fix, won't work.
Sometimes to help me "visually" see the bounds of the icon I'm creating, I
will draw an outline just outside of the visible area. Then I know how much
space to work with.
Is it possible for me to set the time and date of my device (palm)
while a hotsync is happening.
I wrote a conduit to process other data, so if this is possible I
will just need to know the function calls for this.
I read there were problems with this functions. Has anyone done
this successfully
"Richard M. Hartman" wrote:
>
> There is a tool called "PAR" which displays the information
> you are asking about. It is a showcase tool for a library that
> would let you create your own .pdb files. Both are freely available
> ... now the bad news ... I don't recall the URL...
http://www.djw
All you have to do is create a second Multibit Icon with id 1001 with
dimensions 15x9 or 16x9 I forget. If you have the new constructor patch
then you create a second APP ICON Family with ID 1001 and it works.
J.D.
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I have some PRC that gave to a Workpad (3.1) IR Hotsync Support
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:23:44 -0700
From: Brian Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Subject: Re: IR hotsync
>Someone made a reference to enabling the HotSy
Does anyone use WeSync or AnyDay to manage multiple calendars? If so, could
you please let me know what your think about each one or maybe provide me
with some information on other solutions. The solutions do not have to be
web based.
Thanks!
Jeff
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>The routines you want are SerSetWakeupHandler and
>SetPrimeWakeupHandler (or something like that, I'm going from memory
>and it's early in the morning :-))
Brian isn't using the new serial manager. Those functions are not available
prior to OS 3.3.
>I am not using the new serial manager . this
I just want to let you all know that there is a patch that has been made
available for the debugger. It can be found at ftp3.metrowerks.com. Log in
with the following:
user account:palm
user password:p1l0t (PILOT with a 1 instead of an I and a 0 instead of
an o)
There is a new debugger
How do you trigger or queue validation code when the user navigates out of a
field? Any reference to best practices for programming field level
validation would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Curtis
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>Someone made a reference to enabling the HotSync either through the cradle
>port (basically serial) or the IR port (IrDA). Can someone provide a little
>more
>information as to how this functionality is controlled? (Not
>programmatically,
>but as just a user from the silkscreen.)
If you have O
How do you create the small icon for the application launcher to display
when in list mode? Page 107 of the Programmer's Companion mentions "you'll
need to create a tAIB resource having 1001 as the value of its ID" but I
haven't yet found any additional documentation about tAIB resources and how
Mobile Applications BOF
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Peter,
That is strange, I have a default button specified and that code is not
being executed when I press an application button. There might be a bug in
PilRC.
Thanks,
Mike McCollister
> -Original Message-
> From: Peter Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2
Dave,
Thanks. That did it. It was so obvious that I just glanced over it.
Mike McCollister
> -Original Message-
> From: Dave Lippincott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 12:08 PM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: Re: Event Confusion
>
>
> I'd move your
I'd move your SaveData() function to your main form event loop and have it
called when the form receives a frmCloseEvent. The appStopEvent doesn't get
posted to your app until another application is executed (on some OS
version, I'm not sure if its true on all of them) so if you goto the app
laun
My guess is that you haven't properly set the default button on your preferences
dialog. This should be set to the button you want to be automatically pressed when the
user chooses some other application.
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Actually, as of PalmSource 1998 it is officially supported.
The routines you want are SerSetWakeupHandler and
SetPrimeWakeupHandler (or something like that, I'm going from memory
and it's early in the morning :-))
A wakeup handler gets called at interrupt time when a predefined
number of byte
> On a 95 test machine, when I use the new version of
Condcfg (cdk4), my
> conduit will load correctly. When I use the
olderversion (cdk3), it will
> not...although both versions will load the conduit on
my Windows 2000
> machine. Any takers?
Ralph,
Cdk3 is used with Microsoft Visua
Hi all
I'm trying to build a shared library, from source code that seizes 59 k
when built as a static library. When linking (i'm using prc-tools 2.0)
i've the following error message:
foo.o (.text+0x3ca):foo.c: relocation truncated to fit: DISP16 MyFunc
I was wondering if it could be due to th
No offence meant and I didn't say "who wants to deliver those just for the
installation". Whoever wants they will and they do. Whoever doesn't -
welcome to our solution. In the manual it is clearly defined - to the best
of our knowledge, of course - what Catapult can do and that you should use
Ins
Does anyone know where to find information or sample code on how to display
4-bit (16 greys) on a Visor other DragonBallEZ based box?
I know it is possible -- AlbumToGo can do it. Display does some very odd
things, but it really does look like 16 greys.
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On a 95 test machine, when I use the new version of Condcfg (cdk4), my
conduit will load correctly. When I use the olderversion (cdk3), it will
not...although both versions will load the conduit on my Windows 2000
machine. Any takers?
thanks
Ralph Krausse
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Just a thought, but perhaps you should call your SaveData in
your ApplicationStop( ) function instead of trying to handle
the event? I know there's a frmClose event that the forms
handle, but when the stop event gets processed, usually the
ApplicationStop function is called. I don't know if th
Check out the HwrMiscFlags.h header file. There are a number of defines
in there that you can use in conjunction with the hardware calls (which
are diagrammed in detail in the Palm OS Reference). Look near the bottom
of the file...
-Rus
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>From: Jason Simpkins [mailt
From: "Scott L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Popup List problem
> Does your event loop handle the ctlSelect event (if you have any
> buttons on the form) and if so, does it return true when you tap
> this trigger? This would case the problem you are seeing. You
> must return false t
Does Catapult support older installs like the one described by a previous
poster? I, too, often have to deal with installations that are still using
PalmPilots and a 2.0 HotSync or earlier. (I've even had some installs that
use Starfish Software's TrueSync that used to come with Sidekick 97.) Does
Umactually if you have CodeWarrior for Palm R6, they should be on the CD
in PDF form.
Rgds,
Jun-Kiat Lam
Metrowerks Technical Support
- Original Message -
From: "Farzin Ashraghi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 10:29 AM
I heard there was a small serie of Visors, which cause problems with the
interface modules and there is a publicly available way of identifying it by
device id (probably FlashID). I would greatly appreciate if someone can
direct me to the exact place to find how to do that.
Regards,
Bobby Kolev
Dear friends:
Please, somebody knows where can I download the IDE User
Guide and C Compilers Reference documents?
Thank you!
Farzin
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Quito, Ecuador.
Hello,
How does one determine the hardware you currently running on?
Thanks,
Jason
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i have just discovered an easy solution to this. do a define of
#definesizeof(Int)sizeof
what this does is cast the sizeof to an int then that is passed as any
parameter you use it in. it seems kinda strange that this should be done.
anyone have any ideas on the reasoning why this meth
If this problem happens in a non-reproducable manner (unless you are running
on the emulator) and the alert contains more than one button, it may just be
the bug in the older rom versions of prvfixuppointers (or some such name).
The alert form is 'built' from the alert resource and this bug may ca
Yesterday I posted about a problem I was have drawing safely, since the
form I'm drawing on never got a winExitEvent when a dialog came up over
it.
I since discovered that it's only when using FrmPopupForm that there's a
problem, at least in my case. FrmDoDialog apparently has its own
EvtGetE
Hi,
I have an application that upon exit I call my SaveData() function when I
get appStopEvent. This function reads some data from some fields (one of
the things that I do is check if a field is dirty or not). Everything has
been working OK but I found that if I open up my preferences form and
So much for the API-guaranteed compatibility, that's what I can say. This,
and the fact that you actually have to distribute the DLLs with your
installation (instead of using the preinstalled ones by the client software)
made us develop Catapult. What's the use of "common" API for installing if
yo
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This should also work in a DLL. If the DLL is your conduit or a function in
a DLL called by your conduit, you should do this is a new thread, establish
an event in the conduit thread, enter a checkevent&sleep loop, and on each
interation through the loop ping the hotsync API so that the hotsync s
See "SysAppLaunch" Fuction. It is used to launch an
application from a program.
Bye.
> Sorry if this has been answered before but I couldn't
find anything i this
> forum.
>
> Is it possible to open an application from within my
own? If so, how would
> that be done technically?
>
Hi,
I have a preferences from that works just fine if I press my OK or Cancel
butotns. However, if I exit the preferences for by pressing the calculator
button (or any other button that switches to another application) I get this
message "Form.c, Line: 1728, object not in form". Any ideas on fi
Thanks Greg. I had forgotten about name mangling. Your suggestion fixed the
linking problem.
Thanks,
Paul
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>
> >> I've downloaded the sample shared library project, changed it to use
the
> 3.5
> > SDK, and work fine. T
Hi,
Is there a public domain encryption library that I can use on a Palm?
- Hong Siang.
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Sorry if this has been answered before but I couldn't find anything i this
forum.
Is it possible to open an application from within my own? If so, how would
that be done technically?
I'd be glad for any input!
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Can we write conduits on Unix Platform.What are the development tools
available for it.
Additionally can we write conduits on iMac using c\c++.is there CDK
available on it?
Thanx
Gaurav
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Hi all,
I hope someone can clear this up for me! CtlSetLabel is documented to "Set
the current label for the specified control object and redraw the control if
it is visible". Consider the following code:
FormPtr lFormPtr = FrmNewForm(3000, "a form", 0, 0, 160, 160, false, 0, 0,
0);
ControlPtr l
I was the original poster, and having performed the upgrade earleir this
week, I have not found any problems, even the "many games" (come on we all
know this is the main point of having a palm device :-) ) I have work
without error.
So to ayyone thinking of trying, go for it, BUT do remember to h
here is my make file
SRCS = client.c entry.c Ip.c
OBJS = client.o entry.o Ip.o
PALMCFLAGS = -g -O2 -palmos3.1
INCLUDES= -I$(HDIR) -I$(CC_DEFINES)
DEFINES = -DCPU=$(CPU) $(DEFS)
CC_DEFINES = -DCPU=$(CPU) $(DEFINE_CC) $(EXTRA_DEFINE)
CFLAGS = $(INCLUDES) $(DEFINES) $(ACFLAGS) $(PALMCFLAGS)
HDIR =
The form exists, "AboutFormID" is a constant I defined in a .h file.
The form appears and everything works but I get the warning I
mentioned in the Subject line of this message.
I just remembered something else that it's doing. Maybe this is a
separate problem? When the dialog goes away, there
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