List Redraw Problem

I have a problem that is just slaying me here.. it isn't a problem on OS 3.5 (my IIIc), but it does happen on 3.3... my experience has shown me that when this happens, I'm doing it wrong :) Ok.. I have a Modal Dialog with two listboxes. Both of them are dynamically drawn using custom drawing

Re: UK PalmOS programmers

Will, sounds like a nice idea. Count me in (Nottingham) if you go ahead with it. Darren. Will Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:18263@palm-dev-forum... I've been thinking about setting up a list of PalmOS programmers in the UK. The idea is simply a web page which

RE: UK PalmOS programmers

I've been thinking about setting up a list of PalmOS programmers in the UK. Why limit it to UK only? Well it seemed to me that most PalmOS developers are in the US and there are already a couple of sites - i.e roadcoders, Palm Entrepreneurs etc - - that are, by sheer weight of

Palm OS 3.5

Hi! Where can an ordinary user get the PalmOS 3.5 upgrade? Many applications demand version 3.5 at least for some functions, and a lot of people around are stuck with 3.3 on their devices. I see here many developers happily coding for 3.5, otoh there are mainly 3.3 devices around here. Any

RE: UK PalmOS programmers

Hi, we could put up a list with for all european PalmOS programmers at: www.palmosdeveloper.com (this belongs to me) cya ... Collin -- Collin Richard Mulliner personal: www.mulliner.org/collin palm software: www.palmosdeveloper.com don't know: betaversion.net/error Linux enthusiast -

Re: SYNCit, new self extrating palm file installer

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Richard Bram wrote: What do you think about exe installers from the developer point of view? How many installation support issues do you have? Is this installer useful for you? Would you pay for it and how much? As a Mac user myself, I would eschew exe installers. I

Unwanted nilEvents keep apearing - Using example from Neils Rhod es Book

Hello, I have been trying to use a comms example from Neil Rhodes book. The part in question is page 264. I have some differences as I am using the new serial manager and Palm OS 3.5. The Problem: I have implemented the TimeUntilNextRead function in the same way as the book. But I get

Re: CodeWarrior Plugin Error (and link error)

Hi prashanth, U check that whether your resource.frk and corresponding header files are ReadOnly or not.If they are read only this error will come.Better u check ur .tmp file by right clicking it. Once you remove those read only bits ,it wont give any link errors

Re: Unwanted nilEvents keep apearing - Using example from Neils Rhod es Book

repeated from the conduit list: You can't stop or predict the nilEvent. The OS uses it for various reasons, not just because of how you set EvtGetEvent. Read the documentation on EvtGetEvent (the 2nd parameter is not an absolute, just a minimum value) and nilEvent (

RE: List Redraw Problem

I assume what you're saying is that when you redraw you want to maintain the selection of whatever was in the first list box. When you redraw the list, make sure you LstSetSelection to the selection you got before. DeAnna -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Doc readers for other platforms

Greetings, Does anyone know if there are DOC readers for other platforms (i.e. Macs, Unix etc..) similar to Big Doc for windows? Akil Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- For

all pen taps (mouse clicks) produce nilEvents when debugging with POSE.

-Original Message- From: Matthew Starensier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 3:42 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: all pen taps (mouse clicks) produce nilEvents when debugging with POSE. I'm new to Palm development, and having trouble debugging my

RE: all pen taps (mouse clicks) produce nilEvents when debugging with POSE.

Ive got exactly the same problem, therefore I am taking the approach of never using the nilEvent as its a pain cos you get it at any old time. This means that the serial example in Palm Programming book is not very useful. I would also like to know how to solve this problem nicely. At the moment

Raw Data on Serial

Is it possible to send raw data to the Tx Rx Cts and Dtr pin on the palm pilot, without using any kind of protocol, ( no handshake, no baud rate, no parity, no stop bit... ) If yes how, or where could I find documentation on the subject ... -- For information on using the Palm Developer

RE: SYNCit, new self extrating palm file installer

Speaking about Mac installers, our Mac port of Catapult is under development; we'll surely need several Mac developers for beta testing, so drop a line if you are interested; the first beta is expected in no less than a month, though. Bobby Kolev www.beiks.com -Original Message- From:

Re: all pen taps (mouse clicks) produce nilEvents when debugging with POSE.

I would suggest to anyone having trouble sorting out timers (and other periodic events) that use nilEvents should search past post on this subject. Several developers have already given excellent suggestions as well as examples. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to

Debugging on POSE - unreadable error/warings

I am debugging some serial code on POSE, although I have seen this problem before with other code , and I get a dialogue box appear with a red and white warning/error X appear, with 3 unprintable characters, usually ||E or ||| or something equally useless. What does this mean ??? Has my

Avantgo in an intranet

Older versions of AvantGo (2.0) didn't go through AvantGo servers but straight to the page requested when downloading pages. I want the newer version, 3.0 and up, to behave in a similar way. Or in other words, I don't want to go through AvantGo servers. This because I want to get files in an

Re: Raw Data on Serial

Tx and CTS are input lines so you're not going to be able send anything on them. DTR is hardwired to the RS232 transceiver so you can't control that either. I don't know if it possible to send data on Rx via a hardware UART without some kind of baud rate. You can already adjust the handshaking.

Form.c, Line:514, Invalid window position

Any advice on tracking down this error? I must be overwriting some memory somewhere, but I can't seem to find the problem. When I debug the app, inside the FrmDoDialog() call, pFrm2 gets set to pFrm. It happens after about 25 calls to this function. TIA for the help, Eric Martens ---

Re: List Redraw Problem

What does a redraw have to do with the current selection? The selected item works fine, this is a visual thing. Specifically (it was late when I posted this message last night), what happens when I click on a new item in LB1, the previously highlighted item redraws with the text non-highlighted

Mail problems with www.palmos.com

I posted this last week, with no response. So here it is again. No one else has had e-mail problems with www.palmos.com/dev? Today, I tried twice to post a message to technical support at www.palmos.com. Both times, the web page said my question had been submitted and that I would receive

Re: Raw Data on Serial

Is there any way to bypass the RS232 Is it possible to send data to Rx without the UART. Dave Lippincott wrote: Tx and CTS are input lines so you're not going to be able send anything on them. DTR is hardwired to the RS232 transceiver so you can't control that either. I don't know if

RE: Mail problems with www.palmos.com

Yes, I've had this problem at times, but you'll get answers if you post here, too. If it's a confidential thing (aka source code that can't be posted) then maybe you could ask one of the Palm support engineers for their email. -Rus -Original Message- From: David Heil [mailto:[EMAIL

Pins on the Palm

Hi all I would like to know more about the 10 pins in the Serial Port on my Palm V . I would like to read the "status" of these pins, for example if they are HI or LO . Who knows where in the memory these values are stored? What I want to do is to detect if the Palm is attatched to other

Reg Codes and Japanese OS

I have been using a variant of the Reg Code scheme to generate keys for registration. I have only recently come up against a problem. For some reason the keys are not working on the Japanese version of the OS. I know there is a difference in the character size for US and Japanese versions but

For GCC and PRC-TOOLS users - Question about resource size

Since I am using prc-tools, I no longer get *.grc file (I think that's the file I used to see). So how am I to tell the sizes of my individual code resource segments. Is there some switch setting that will report the size of these multiple code resource segments? Thanks -- For information

Re:Mail problems with www.palmos.com

I have posted my question here. But I also wanted to post a formal question at www.palmos.com/dev because, although I got responses here, there has been no resolution yet. I posted a question successfully before they changed the web address. This is the first time I have tried since the

RE: List Redraw Problem

Obviously I did not understand your question. When you (re)draw your list, do you make sure nothing is highlighted? If not, you should try explicitly setting the selection to nothing until the user selects something. (LstSetSelection(listP, -1);) That should make sure nothing is

Dealing with segments in CodeWarrior...

If your code for your application exceeds 32K, so you need to make two segments, is there a way to make a function in one segment call a functionin another segment? Secondly, if you have a resource that is greater than 64K, is there a way to include it automatically as a single resouce broken

Re: Bug in Address lookup with sysAppLaunchCmdLookup

Thanks for the reply. The PhoneLookup Hack looks good, but I can't rely on people having it installed so I'm just working around the problem in my code. Fortunately the only field which I need and which is affected is "home", and making this the last field in the lookup format string gets around

Re: Floating point support

In email, Andre S. Chen wrote: I am making use of the FloatToString function you posted on Palm Dev Forum on July 14. I think there may be a bug, however. It seems to turn a float between 0 and -1 into a positive number string. I'm not much of a programmer so I wanted to see if you were

RE: Dealing with segments in CodeWarrior...

Use the extern command when calling a function in another seg. Create a multi-seg project using the stationary under CodeWarrior, and it will show you examples of this. Hmm...that's a big resource. What kind of resource is it? Depending on the type of resource, it probably should have been

Re: palm-dev-forum digest: July 21, 2000

Palm Developer Forum digest said: You can type Ctrl-C to enter "Command:" mode. You can then enter the letter of the command (that is, the shortcut letter in the menu). For instance, Ctrl-C followed by B in the Launcher will bring up the Beam dialog. Is there a "shortcut" character that you

RE: Raw Data on Serial

You can bypass the RS232 transceiver with a small Phillips screwdriver and a soldering iron... FWIW, you might get more helpful answers if you would explain what it is you are trying to accomplish. IE, what UART behavior you are trying to circumvent and why... -jjf -Original Message-

RE: Avantgo in an intranet

AvantGo sells enterprise solutions (their server software for Intranets, etc.). I suspect that it is fairly easy, I doubt that it is cheap. -jjf -Original Message- From: Petrus Wrangv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 8:37 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject:

RE: howto hide an app ?

If it's not in the Delete menu, then it's probably not on the device. -hkmlt -Original Message- From: Wee Meng Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 8:27 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: howto hide an app ? On a slightly different note, how do you

RE: SDK Upgrade

Dear sir, I use CW6. What SDK version that equipped with CW6. Should I upgrade to SDK 3.5 ? What is an advantage and disadvantage. And how to upgrade. Best regards, Jeeradate K. Yes -- get the 3.5 SDK! CW6 comes with the 3.1 SDK. Even if you never intend to develop with for the 3.5

Re: Raw Data on Serial

No, the hardware doesn't work like that. RS232 is a protocol that has certain requirements, otherwise it wouldn't be RS232. (Palm does bend the rules a little, but not much) Its also not a direct line between the processor and the serial port. Palm RS232 serial communications must go through

bit field alignment (Database shifting)

I figured out what was causing the database shifting problem that happened when I migrated my application from GCC to CW. If you use the classic C nomenclature from Kernighan and Ritchie for defining bit fields, it looks something like this: struct { unsignedbitfield1 :

RE: CodeWarrior $$

Hi, What is the price of codewarrior software? whether codewarrior supports Java Development (J2ME)? According to the website (just clicking on Tools-CodeWarrior-Buy Online -- https://palmorder.modusmedia.com/Pu/PU-3C50112U.htm), it appears to be US$369 in the US. J2ME is not supported.

Re: Pins on the Palm

Have you looked on the PalmOS web site? http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/palmhardware/ - Original Message - From: "Jonatan Fernstad" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum To: "Palm Developer Forum" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 12:57 PM Subject: Pins on the Palm

Correct way to set Features

Hello all, I was wondering if it was possible to set strings as features. ie: char* pData = "hello world"; FtrSet(MY_APP_CREATOR, 5, (UInt32) pData); then, in a different part of the application: UInt32 iBuff; char* pString; FtrGet(MY_APP_CREATOR, 5, iBuff); pString = (char*)iBuff; Would

Serial Communications

Hello, I'm doing serial communication between my Palm and another device that uses a PIC processor. Just had a few questions I was wondering if anyone could answer about the format of the output more than how to program it. (all of this is from the Tx line) Right now, I just send some

RE: CodeWarrior Debug Window not coming up

This must be documented alreadyseveral things: a) get the latest debugger update; should be available through Metrowerks site (I got it form FTP) and the exact URL is somewhere in the history of this list b) even without it, what you see can be caused by two things: - sometimes the emulator

RE: CodeWarrior Debug Window not coming up

This must have been documented alreadyseveral things: a) get the latest debugger update; should be available through Metrowerks site (I got it form FTP) and the exact URL is somewhere in the history of this list b) even without it, what you see can be caused by two things: - sometimes the

RE: Raw Data on Serial

Patrick, call 613 825 4758 ask for Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Patrick Ouellet Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 3:29 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Raw Data on Serial Ok... I'm not a electronic technician so I might by

RTS/CTS and serial port under emulator

Hi there, Does anyone know if the emulated Palm correctly performs RTS/CTS handshaking on the emulated PC or Mac? Robert Crago Revelation Computing Pty Limited PO Box 459, ASPLEY Brisbane, Australia 4034 -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

loss of serial data with long loop

I have an application that receives serial data from an external device via the Ir port. The external device logs data, so I get a number telling me how many records will follow followed by a set of records (each record is 32 bytes), I can get anywhere from 1 to 995 records. I currently have

RE: CodeWarrior Debug Window not coming up

Jason, Make sure that in Edit-Preferences, Debugger-Palm Connection Settings the box is checked for Show Log Window. It is also possible that the window is there, but you just can't see it. If this is the case, you might want to go into the Preferencese in Debugger-Windowing and selest Hide

Emulation of serial port

Hi there, Does anyone know if the emulated Palm correctly performs RTS/CTS handshaking on the emulated PC or Mac? Robert Crago -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Re: Pins on the Palm

Have you looked on the PalmOS web site? Yes I have looked at that page and have not found any information on how to read the status of the I/O pins or where in memory this information is stored. One way (maybe) to find this out would be to join the Serial Port and Modem Casing program. Allthough

Loss of Serial Ir data during receive loop

I have an application that receives serial data from an external device via the Ir port. The external device logs data, so I get a number telling me how many records will follow followed by a set of records (each record is 32 bytes), I can get anywhere from 1 to 995 records. I currently have an

Variables and Constructor

Hi, I'm developing a Palm app whose name may change in the future. As part of the design, the name of the app is referenced many places in the app. Is there any way to give Constructor a variable in place of hard coding the app's name? Thanks! -Jason -- For information on using the Palm

Palm Training Development Books?

Hello, I have been researching development courses for the Palm VII. Does anyone have recommendations for Palm OS training courses and good development books. Any guidance would be apprecated. Regards...Paul -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please

Problem with menus

My app uses a table to display the names of records. The user has to select a record from the table in order to edit it, delete it, etc. If the user tries to click the edit or delete button without selecting a record, it gets an error message. I check to see if the message needs to be

netErrMessageTooBig

Hello all, I am developing a socket application for the spt1740. The application is the client, and the server is also developed by the company I work for. Currently I am trying to stress test the application by sending large amounts of data as quickly as possible. The data size can range

RE: CodeWarrior Debug Window not coming up

I'm running CW 6 on Win2K, and I'm trying to bring up a debug session with POSE. Everything appears to be fine up to, and including, bringing up the app in POSE. However, the Debug window (with the watches and more) do not appear. Does anyone have any insight as towards why this is

Link Error : Form using resource nbgt ID=1523 which can't be used by forms.

What does the error in the subject line mean? Code which previously compiled is no longer compiling, giving me this error message. I'm using CW R6 on Win2K. Thanks, Jason -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Re: RTS/CTS and serial port under emulator

If you specify hardware handshaking in the SerSettingsType or the srmCtlSetFlags control call, Poser will enable hardware handshaking on the host serial port. However, the effect you see in your emulated application may be different from what you see on an actual device. Poser buffers up

Deleting added table items

I have a table that I have added strings to via TblSetLoadDataProcedure(). In this call back I allocate memory to a handle and pass it to the table so the table can display my strings. I need to figure out how to enumerate the table and get back a handle to my strings so I can delete and free the

RE: Raw Data on Serial

Assuming all level conditioning, etc. is dealt with, you could do the following: 1. Open the serial port normally. This gives you ownership of the port and enables the RS-232 transceiver. 2. Reprogram Port G, bits 0 and 1 on the Dragonball so that they are general purpose IO pins. 3. Read

How many databases is too many?

Out of curiousity, what is the highest number of databases anyone has ever created for a single application for the palm? Thanks, Curtis. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Re: Link Error : Form using resource nbgt ID=1523 which can't be used by forms.

further info: I know i have no ID with that number. -jason -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

RE: Serial Communications

The SPI is quite a bit different from a standard async serial port. You can implement an async serial port in software on most PICs. I did one a long time ago on a PIC16C50 derivative and it worked pretty well. If you go to www.microchip.com and select Application Notes, a note on implementing

RE: Loss of Serial Ir data during receive loop

Never mind, I discovered a stupid mistake.. (sigh), how comes it seems that whenever I actually post something I tend to find a stupid error right afterwards.. ugh.. oh well - Thomas -Original Message- From: Anderson, Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 1:30 PM

Re: How many databases is too many?

I have the same question. An open database takes about 100 bytes in the dynamic heap, which doesn't sound like too much memory. My application will have about 20 databases. Each database is small but have many fields, one field per checklist item (char(2)). -Elizabeth

Lotus Notes Group Calendar

Hi All, Have you notice that when you grant rights to access to your Notes Group Calendar, you also grant rights to access to your emails? Are there any tips or tricks to prevent this? We are looking for some synchronization solutions to our Notes Group Calendar. Thanks. -Elizabeth --

Re: Emulation of serial port

"revcom" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:18555@palm-dev-forum... Does anyone know if the emulated Palm correctly performs RTS/CTS handshaking on the emulated PC or Mac? Just recently I wrote a program that uses the serial port to talk to a proprietary device that depends upon RTS/CTS

RE: Database is shifted

I figured out how to eliminate the database shifting that happened when I migrated my application from GCC to CW. I wrote my original GCC program using the following structure, and it always worked fine. typedef struct { unsigned selected: 1; unsigned

Can you trash a Palm programmatically?

Recently I've been working on a program that talks to a proprietary device through its the Palm's serial port. The program seems to work pretty well, but the Palm is having troubles. Because I'm a fairly new Palm programmer, I suspect that I may have failed to clean up my garbage somehow.

Re: For GCC and PRC-TOOLS users - Question about resource size

Michael S. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I am using prc-tools, I no longer get *.grc file Unless your project has multiple code resources, you can still use obj-res and get the .grc files if you want to. Is there some switch setting that will report the size of these multiple code

Re: MemSet

Brandon Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Didn't the 3.5 SDK introduce changes that made previously compiling code noncompilable without edits? If you're talking about the changes in type names (DWord - UInt32 etc), in fact (due to the simultaneous Pilot.h - PalmOS.h change) it was possible to

Re: MemSet

John Marshall wrote: Your point seems to be that, having inconvenienced people in the past, we shouldn't bother trying to do better next time around. If everyone agrees with Brandon on this, please tell me: it would make my job a lot easier! I don't mind minor transitional inconveniences if

Re: howto hide an app ?

Heather Tufts wrote: If it's not in the Delete menu, then it's probably not on the device. There are a number of things which don't show up in the beam and/or delete lists. That's the whole reason I've installed things like BeamBox which let you look at other things. -- Adam Wozniak

Do you have a position available!

I am sorry if this message bugs you. I spent the past year to co-found a company with two other people. My responsbility was in charge of building the technology. But due to some mistakes we made, management problems, hiring problems, and funging problems, we decided to shut the door. I am

Re: SYNCit, new self extrating palm file installer

What do you think about exe installers from the developer point of view? How many installation support issues do you have? I never had any installation support issues (ie, installation of PalmOS apps, for the most part, is pretty easy). Besides the cross-platform issues w/ .exe installers,

Re: Do you have a position available!

If you are willing to relocate California is a great place for IT personnel. I am a Unix/Firewall administrator and I have had 25+ job offers out here. Try dice.com or monster.com also.. you will be picked up quick On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Guanghe Pan wrote: I am sorry if this message bugs

Insert records to large database ( 10000 records)

Hi all, i wrote a palm program to get database records from PC to palm using FTP protocol. the program is running on SPT1500. it works fine at the beginning, but when the palm database grows large, the record insertion is very slow. and the program throw a fatal error at last (it maybe my

RE: Insert records to large database ( 10000 records)

Hi Sam, I would suspect that your memory could well be the problem here. Over time your memory may become heavily fragmented, and this will cause the progressive slow down. I've successfully moved large quantities of data around on the SPT1740 across RF (TCP) and unpacked those packets into