That is one of my aims to do that.
Eric
Brian Mathis ¼g¤J¡G
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Adam wrote:
Eric wrote:
is it possible to take a checksum of parts or even whole of the
code? if possible, I can prevent my code get corrupt.
Checksums might detect corruption, but
How can a program get and set its v3.5 Launcher category?
Alex Robinson
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David Fedor wrote:
I'm using the ProtectOurDatabase() function ripped out
of the DrMcCoy example app to prevent my apps from being
deleted or beamed. Works great, except on the 3.5 devices.
Both
PrvMisAlignedForwardInnerBitBlt is a particularly tricky function (along with
PrvMisAlignedBackwardInnerBitBlt). It has this habit of walking off the end or
beginning of an allocated buffer while copying pixels from one place to another.
As it turns out, it does so in a fairly safe fashion, and
I have had problems with using nil events as pose creates extra nil events
causing problems, my method appears to work fine so far.
Rik
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From: HowY [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 08 August 2000 15:10
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Re: Creating a non
Even if youe email doesent bounce, youll be a luckier man than me if you get
a responce, ive sent them 4 email spanning 3 weeks and have had no replies.
Rik
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From: Bob Whiteman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 08 August 2000 15:33
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject:
Hi, I'm new in this dev area, I downloaded the Palm OS emulator software,
but it seems need a ROM image file in order to work, but I don't have the Vx
palm device on my hand. Could someone send me the ROM Image file for Palm
Vx, cause I want to develop some app for it. Also, is that ture for most
(Although I use the emulator as a selling support mechanism sometimes...
our clients like to play with our gadgets, but sometimes we don't have
them in house...bet you haven't realized it could be used for that yet!)
Actually, that's one of Poser's stated goals.
We would LOVE to be able to
The solution is not to fire off your own event on every nilEvent. Look at
the # of sys ticks since the last nilEvent or the system time to determine
if you should proceed.
I have had problems with using nil events as pose creates extra nil events
causing problems
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There used to be a README on the Palm website that described converting an
app from pre-Palm OS 3.5 to Palm OS 3.5, but I can't seem to find it. I
can't get to the KB from the firewall here, but you may want to browse the
Palm KB to see if there is an article on this. There should be other
Sorry, there isn't a way to include pure asm blocks inside CodeWarrior, at
least not for Palm. Currently only function-level assembly is supported.
That would be:
asm void foo ()
{
add.l d0, d1
rts
}
This is described in the Targeting Palm OS documentation. The rest of the
From: Andrew Lathrop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
[...]
The best bet seems to be to post to the groups. There are a
few Palm people
who troll through here doing there best to answer. They don;t eply to
individual emails, but who knows, others in the group may be
able to help.
Andrew
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Andrew Lathrop wrote:
That is true. But i believe that you can use the save bound emulator
function and get around this. I beleive you need to be running Windows NT
for it to work. It save the emulator and all the current settings/programs
in an .exe that can be distibuted (i think? )
Does
I think the article Jun-Kiat Lam is refering to is article 1710 in the Knowledge
Base. In addition, I would look at the Sample Code entitled "Color Deal" as an
example of using color in your application.
Ezekiel Sanborn de Asis
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dimensions are different.
Ezekiel Sanborn de Asis
Palm Dev Support
Latest eWeek magazine, arriving today, says the serial connector
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd be curious to know what hardware changes would require emulator changes
for these devices.
Then look at the Poser sources (in particular, the EmRegsDevice.cpp files).
Those will tell you the relevent hardware differences for currently supported
devices. When
Eric wrote:
That is one of my aims to do that.
Good luck.
Any function can be cracked to return a constant value
Any comparison can be cracked to return a constant value
You're not likely to be much of a nuisance to an experienced
cracker using a checksum method.
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Looking around, the NT is only required to generate the exe. I read this in
a post somewhere - something to do with the settings in windows required to
make the exe. If you lookin the UsingPose.pdf that came in the Docs folder,
on page 6, at least in my version, it metniosn a program called
Sounds good to me. Got 'em stumped have you and they don't want to admit
it!! = Þ
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From: Andrew Lathrop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
[...]
The best bet seems to be to post to the groups. There are a
few Palm
Brian said:
If you were a PC software vendor, would your customers expect you to know
all the details of Intel's newest chip?
Yes. Intel releases info on chips that are 2 years out, while they're
still in R D mode.
If you were an auto salesman, do
you think it's reasonable to think that
From: "Jun-Kiat Lam" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Best books / documents about color programing
There used to be a README on the Palm website that described
converting an app from pre-Palm OS 3.5 to Palm OS 3.5, but I
can't seem to find it.
Try "A Beginner's Guide to Converting a Project
This is one of those cases where the OS is trying to be helpful, but ends up
just being annoying. :)
I just took a peek at the source and it's the IR library that's asking the
user if he wants to enable beam receive when you disconnect after an ExgPut.
The condition for putting up the dialog is:
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Oliver King-Smith wrote:
Palm is definitely sharing information with favored developers. They also
share the information with the press (this was bragged about on PalmPower)
yesterday. So you are being very naive in believing that everyone gets the
information at the
Sadly, I have another bug which I believe is in Palm OS 3.5.
I have a form with many controls on it, including a button with the text
"New". I create a field using FldNewField, and immediately after that call
the button's text is changed to "Nqw". I verified this by looking into the
form
Hi there, I am an undergrad comp eng senior and I'm looking forward to doing
a wireless project for senior project so I was wondering what kind of palm
projects can I do. I've heard of viewing traffic using the plam and I was
wondering if it has something to do with web clipping. My project
Just a couple of additional comments...
I have had problems with using nil events as pose creates extra
nil events causing problems, my method appears to work fine so far.
POSe is an emulator not the real device
The solution is not to fire off your own event on every nilEvent.
Look at
I agree with what you say about leaks, rumors and NDAs, David. It all sounds
like intelligent business practices. I have a couple additional comments
below.
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[...]
At 2:51 PM -0700 8/7/00, Bob Whiteman wrote:
I entirely
Here's my code...
Follow comment...
case MainBtnUpButton:
{
if(SerialLink == false)
{
//Find serial ref num
ThisErr = SysLibFind("Serial Library", SerNum);
if( ThisErr == 0)
{
//open serial port
SerErr = SerOpen(SerNum, 0, 9600L);
Michael S. Davis wrote in message 20190@palm-dev-forum...
...
If palm gave out the advance information to everyone that claimed to be
a developer, I don't care how much of a non-disclosure agreement you
had, I guarantee you that many of those developers would let the cat out
of the bag.
It
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From: Peter Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
This sound suspiciously like the adjust pointers bug I heard
about a while ago. When adding objects to a form, the
structure of the form in memory needs to be adjusted so that
pointers continue to point where
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Richard Hartman wrote:
Michael S. Davis wrote in message 20190@palm-dev-forum...
...
If palm gave out the advance information to everyone that claimed to be
a developer, I don't care how much of a non-disclosure agreement you
had, I guarantee you that many of those
At 12:47 PM 8/8/2000, Bob Whiteman wrote:
I haven't heard of this bug before...is it a bug in the OS? I'm guessing
that the code to which you're referring is FrmAddSpaceForObject() in the OS.
Yes, it's an OS bug.
I was unable to find any references to this bug in the Knowledge Base or in
Are you being sarcastic? I can't tell. You should indeed expect us to
change and improve our products, and some may have USB particularly as
more
and more desktop machines ship without serial ports. Don't base your
business on a little detail like that! (Or stock up on USB - Serial
I am trying to get the popup trigger text that is displayed in the form to
match the current selection on a list. When I start the window I have set
the LstSetSelection to the proper value, and I want the popup trigger to
take on this text so it is properly displayed. Any help would be
"DIAMOND JEFF" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:20262@palm-dev-forum...
In my Metrowerks project, for some reason the main project window came
up with its top half off the client area when I reloaded my project.
I can't find anyway to move the window using keyboard shortcuts, and
I open the serial library and keep it open for the life of the application,
then open and close the serial port as necessary. Also try using
SerSendWait.
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From: "Patrick Ouellet" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum
To: "Palm Developer Forum" [EMAIL
A question. I have written an app that works fine in the emulator. It uses
the serial port to connect to a third device via a direct serial cable.
When the HotSync the program to my Palm, and then try to use it on the Palm,
connecting to the third device using the HotSync cradle. It no longer
Richard Hartman wrote:
Adam Wozniak wrote in message 20133@palm-dev-forum...
I'd be curious to know what hardware changes would require emulator changes
for these
devices.
Because the emulator is emulating the _old_ hardware?
Perhaps I didn't state that very well.
What hardware
Please, please, please consider retaining the serial port for legacy
products. (the Visor TTL serial port is a start but lacks the necessary
control lines). Don't put me out of business!
Ok, now I understand your point. Thanks for the clarification; it makes
sense now.
(Obviously I can't
This answer doesn't work for my application. Let me descibe a bit more
specifically what I am looking for.
I have some functions that generate list selections that I want the user to
modify. The user opens a form, and in the forminit routine I go through
the various lists and set the
Hi,
I'm trying to test some Serial Manager code I've written. I've got a file
called c:\hello.txt on my PC (Windows 98) that contains "hello world!" How
do I send the contents of this file so that my program can read it using the
code I've written? Thanks.
Tom
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Hi,
I'm trying to test some Serial Manager code I've written. I've got a file
called c:\hello.txt on my PC (Windows 98) that contains "hello world!" How
do I send the contents of this file so that my program can read it using
the
code I've written? Thanks.
Tom
The simplest way to do this
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:02:29AM -0700, Danny Epstein wrote:
This is one of those cases where the OS is trying to be helpful, but ends up
just being annoying. :)
I just took a peek at the source and it's the IR library that's asking the
user if he wants to enable beam receive when you
(Obviously I can't wave my magic wand and make promises either way, but I
understand now.)
Hopefully those who make the future hardware decisions will also understand
(especially if you tell them). BTW, can I borrow you magic wand, I have a
few places I'd like to wave it.
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Sorry, this is just a test - for the last three to four weeks I
haven´t been able to send mails via news.palm.com, as it always
rejected them saying "article xyz is already on server".
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One thought... the cradle already crosses the Tx and Rx lines. I'd make
sure you're not crossing them a second time when you use your Palm. But
there are really few differences between Poser and a device.
I have found that if your serial app works with Poser, it almost always
works on a device
I am having trouble writing to a database/record from a shared library. I
can read database records, but cannot write. The DmWrite function is
failing indicating that the record in invalid.
Here is a code snippet...
DmOpenRef db = DmOpenDatabaseByTypeCreator(DBTYPE,
Hi all,
I am a newbie. I am interested in the bitmap format, and one of the post in
archives mentioned about reading bitmap.h.
I use Code Warrior 6, and I can not find this file. Is it changed to another
name ? Or must i find it somewhere else ?
I appreciaite your ideas,
Vu Pham
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I appreciate the tip, but hitting ctl + '/' has had no effect.
The best I've been able to do is select "MinimizeWindow" from the
Codewarrior Window menu, then from the minimized window, I can click
on the window menu and do "Maximize".
This allows me to at least access the contents of the
It's part of the Palm OS 3.5 SDK, which you can download at www.palmos.com.
CW for Palm R6 comes with the Palm OS 3.1 and Palm VII SDK by default, not
the Palm OS 3.5 SDK - not sure what the equivalent header (if any) is for
these SDKs though.
Rgds,
Jun-Kiat Lam
Metrowerks Technical Support
Hi there,
I'm currently on the bug crunching path on our Zap!2000 game, and we've long
had a problem with the system Find button. If you go ahead and do a find,
then Cancel and return to the game then you get a 'attempt to read
unallocated memory' error from POSEr and things go quickly downhill.
The preferences might have become corrupted. If Ben's suggestion doesn't
work, try deleting the folders CW Autosave and CW Debugging Cache inside
the c:\winnt\Metrowerks or c:\windows\Metrowerks folders to see if this helps.
Rgds,
Jun-Kiat Lam
Metrowerks Technical Support
At 03:19 PM 8/8/2000
Thanks!!!
I found the section on assembler directives within TargetingPalmOS.pdf,
and it's great!
Thanks for the tip!
- Jeff
DIAMOND JEFF wrote:
I have read through the Metrowerks documentation, and although there is
much about pure assembler syntax (generically), and the disassembler in
Hi Richard,
Does your app receive huge amounts of data? The OS is not very good at managing
CTS, which could be causing overflow. Are you checking for (and handling)
serial errors in your code?
If you're still having problems you might consider posting some source code.
Regards,
Peter
Does anybody know where I can find any good reference material on developing
conduits?
I read one that comes with CDK 4 but sample code and explanation for it
wasn't that great.
Thanks,
Pavel
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Hi there,
When I loaded my most recent pqa into the emulator and tried to run
it, I got a pop-up error message that read:
"Web Clipping" 3.2 has just performed an illegal operation. It
performed a "bus error". If this is the latest version of "Web
Clipping", please report this to the
I'm running Palm OS 3.3 and I ran into an error. Can anyone give me a hint
as to what cause this error? I've never seen it before.
Table.c, Line: 2850, Invalid Parameter
You passed a bad (too large) row number, or a bad table pointer, to
TblGetRowHeight. (Or the table's internal data has
It seems that the networking folks have finally fixed things so that we get
email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] again. ("3Com: more connected." We're no longer
part of 3Com, but they run our networks...)
Try sending again, and it should arrive.
-David Fedor
Palm Developer Support
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"Jun-Kiat Lam" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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The preferences might have become corrupted. If Ben's suggestion doesn't
work, try deleting the folders CW Autosave and CW Debugging Cache inside
the c:\winnt\Metrowerks or c:\windows\Metrowerks folders to see if
Someone on this forum told me that PilRC would bridge the gap between xFONT output and
the binary resource format needed by CodeWarrior. I downloaded PilRC from PalmGear.com
and found that all I had was source code that needed compiling (I assume with the GCC
tools). Next, I downloaded a Win32
I don't know anything about Multilink and the problem you described, but it
should be a simple matter to prevent Find by simply detecting the vchrFind
virtual key code, and not passing it to SysHandleEvent()...
-David Fedor
Palm Developer Support
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On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 02:02:36PM -0700, David Fedor wrote:
Please, please, please consider retaining the serial port for legacy
products. (the Visor TTL serial port is a start but lacks the necessary
control lines). Don't put me out of business!
Ok, now I understand your point. Thanks
Hello everybody,
I am wondering if anyone knows of someone making a device which
implements Bluetooth which I could attach to a Palm or Visor. Thanks,
Chris Gilmore
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Has anyone out there used a library and database designer called JuliaDB???
the company web site is at http://www.softbow.com/
On PalmGear.com there were no reviews writen about it and I was just
wondering if it is a worthy product.
Thanks a bunch
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David,
Thanks for the information. It's unfortunate that the set of supported OSes
for my application happens to be the set of OSes which have this bug.
Regarding which approach to use to address this problem:
I think it's unreasonable to expect all the users out there to upgrade their
Unless I am really losing it, Does anyone know if there are any known bug with
BitmapSize() that causes it to return an incorrect value if the Bitmap is compressed.
The documentation says nothing about only working on uncompressed images but I have
found this to be the case.
Jason D
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Bob Ebert wrote in message 20184@palm-dev-forum...
At 9:07 AM +0200 08/8/00, Alex Robinson wrote:
How can a program get and set its v3.5 Launcher category?
You could put up a dialog asking the user to recategorize it for you...
:-)
I guess I'm in a mood today... but I can't help thinking "why
Actually, it seems to me that he would need to "uncross" the Tx and Rx
lines. The hotsync cradle's TX pin goes to the PC com port's RX pin, and
vice versa. Since he's tested the app with the emulator and a direct serial
cable, the device is expecting TX on the PC's TX line, and RX on the PC's
Mike,
It looks like DmWrite is using aiTemp which is uninitialized (unknown stack
debris).
Regards,
Randy Maxwell
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From: Michael J. Maigret [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 2:36 PM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Database access in shared
Unless I am really losing it, Does anyone know if there are any known bug
with BitmapSize() that causes it to return an incorrect value if the
Bitmap is compressed.
Well, the size of a compressed bitmap is stored in the first UInt16 of the
Bits of a compressed bitmap. So if the tool that
Hi Patrick,
What is the scope of SerNum? It should be a global variable otherwise
its value will be lost between subsequent calls to your event handler.
Regards,
Peter Easton
Palm Developer Support
Patrick Ouellet wrote:
Here's my code...
Follow comment...
case MainBtnUpButton:
{
in article 20094@palm-dev-forum, Eric at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 7/8/00 3:50
AM:
is it possible to take a checksum of parts or even whole of the
code? if possible, I can prevent my code get corrupt.
Without getting into a discussion of the merits or otherwise of doing so,
here's the code:
Although a properly scaled display for the m100 emulation would be helpful
to see how our apps appear on a 40% smaller screen. For reasons I didn't
quite follow, the reviewer in PC Week said the smaller screen made it harder
to use AvantGo.
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after spending three years in Sweden, i am considering giving it up and
moving to the land of guns, misery and laywers [USA]
Don't do it. Telecommute.
Regards,
Steve Mann
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Pavel Vagin wrote:
Does anybody know where I can find any good reference material on developing
conduits?
I read one that comes with CDK 4 but sample code and explanation for it
wasn't that great.
Thanks,
Pavel
There's some good info in this book:
Deleting the project data directory did it!
Thanks guys!
And I didn't lose any setting in the precess - I just had to rebuild the
object files.
But my window is free again!
- Jeff
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Just remember that if you're using movem for high data bandwidth (low
instruction bandwidth) then you have to REALLY use it.
If you only movem 128 bits (4 32-bit registers), than it's faster to do
individual move.ls
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From: Michael Yam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Although a properly scaled display for the m100 emulation would
be helpful to see how our apps appear on a 40% smaller screen.
I wouldn't expect POSE to support any such scaling. Currently its onscreen
size bears no relation to reality, so why
Hi all,
I would to create a binary file for the bitmap, based on bitmap.h. I don't
know if the format of this binary is required to have byte-swapped for
integer value ?
Thanks for youe help,
Vu
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Oh, man...I'd stopped reading this thread for a while in order to let the
ranting die down. But I was interested in what Scott had to say.
Michael, remember, the m100 screen is smaller because the pixels are smaller!
There's nothing I can do in Poser to make the pixels on your PC's screen any
Thanks but could you please help me find these resources using C code.
In a message dated 8/8/2000 11:47:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
t's been my experience that C is the most common language used to develop
products for the PalmI believe there are also some
I have a similar problem with the Emulator. I have to reload the Emulator
everytime I change code and want to debug the code. I was closing the
Emulator and reopenning it everytime until someone on this forum told me
that I could simple reload a session on the emulator and get the reset
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From: "Jun-Kiat Lam" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Palm Developer Forum" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: where is bitmap.h ?
It's part of the Palm OS 3.5 SDK, which you can download at
www.palmos.com.
CW for Palm R6 comes with the
From: Peter Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
[...]
I haven't heard of this bug before...is it a bug in the OS? I'm guessing
that the code to which you're referring is FrmAddSpaceForObject() in the
OS.
Yes, it's an OS bug.
With these hints I was able to find PrvFixupPointers in the OS
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Popup Trigger Text
After Howard's suggestion I also added a CtlSetLabel function to update
this text, but it did not update. Does anybody have any other
suggestions.
I've been using CtlSetLabel to set the text of a popup trigger with no
problems and
I've been trying to make progress on this issue. We've fixed the routines
in the OS for the next major OS release (of which we have no announcements
yet) but that wouldn't address the fact that this has existed ever since
3.0. It hardly ever was an issue until the dynamic heap started getting
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