Re: How to react on new character

Thanks. Wojtek Mark Smith wrote: Wojtek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to extend my app for searching function like the one in Adresses. When user enters next char in a field app starts searching. I've watched through the code of Adresses by I haven't found it easy. Can someone give me

Near data segment is bigger than 64 k.

Hello, I am working with CODEWARRIOR LITE and I get error message "Link Error : _RuntimeModule_: Near data segment is bigger than 64 k." The problem caused by a big array that the program uses. How do I prevent this problem ? Best Regards, Elena Kodel Software Engineer Top Technology

Palmpak cards

Hello, Do you know what do I need to develop programs that will bee hold on Palmpak cards. Is there any diffrent between developing application for the Palm to the Palmpak cards. Best Regards, Elena Kodel Software Engineer Top Technology (85) Ltd. -- For information on using the Palm

Re: Searching records

Sorry for lack of knowledge. But how does binary search work? I suppose I should use DmFindSortPosition. (?) Richard Burmeister wrote: From: Wojtek My database is going to have over 1500 records. Is there a way I can speed up searching for a specified string in these records. DB is

RE: Near data segment is bigger than 64 k.

Hi, avoid using fixed arrays, use dynamic memory allocation. HTH, elmer -Original Message- From: elena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 6:46 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Near data segment is bigger than 64 k." Hello, I am working with CODEWARRIOR

Re: Searching records

Thanks. I tried DmFindSortPosition and it works much,much faster. There is only one problem for me yet. I want my DB to be sorted in three ways. I cannot sort on demand (because of amount of records). What is the way to do that? Wojtek Richard Burmeister wrote: From: Wojtek My database

Re: Near data segment is bigger than 64 k.

Allocate it dinamically, using pointers and MemPtrNew or MemHandleNew... Or, if it is cuasi-static data, create a database for it. - Original Message - From: "elena" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Palm Developer Forum" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 12:46 PM Subject: Near data

Re: Near data segment is bigger than 64 k.

In my case I can't use a dynamic memory allocation .I have to use the static array. Is it possible to change the linker options so it could link program over then 64K Best Regards, Elena Kodel Software Engineer Top Technology (85) Ltd. -Original Message- From: Elmer Medez [EMAIL

using the diary for activate an application

I would like to know how can I activate an application in an automatic way following the reception of an alarm to start by the diary (i.e. saving the execution of the application in the diary). thanks -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

My app quits receiving form events [Was Weird behaviour of FrmGotoForm and MemHandleNew]

What can cause a Palm app or the Palm OS no to generate winEnterEvents, frmLoadEvent and frmOpenEvent after a FrmGotoForm, and when it has sent frmCloseEvent, winExitEvent, penUpEvent and a nilEvent. The event loop keeps running, and if I tap the screen I receive penDownEvent, penUpEvent, and

Get the event handler function's address

Is there any way to get the current form's event handler function's address, so I can dissasemble it and see which event handler is loaded? -- Juan de Dios Santander Vela Control In Situ, S.L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please

Re: Searching records

There is only one problem for me yet. I want my DB to be sorted in three ways. I cannot sort on demand (because of amount of records). What is the way to do that? Palm OS itself does not provide support for that. But you can create an index DB yourself (at 1st launch after HotSync for

WinSetBackColor and Visor Prism

Hi, Does anyone know why this does not work on a Visor Prism? The text shows up as white on white instead of white text with a deep red background. IndexedColorType lastTextColor = 0; IndexedColorType lastBackColor = 0; RGBColorType newTextColor, newBackColor; static RGBColorType rgbBlack =

Re: Get the event handler function's address

From the documentation: The FormType structure and supporting structures are defined as follows: typedef struct { WindowType window; UInt16 formId; FormAttrType attr; WinHandle bitsBehindForm; FormEventHandlerType * handler; UInt16 focus; UInt16

RE: Event handler

Hi Chris, I tried the way you suggested but still stuck. Can you please illustrate with a simple example.. Regards, Kapil. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris DiPierro Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 1:01 PM To: Palm Developer Forum

Re: Get the event handler function's address

Well, I'll try a FrmGetActiveForm()--I don't know how I missed that--, and access those members directly, as this is something to be done for debugging purposes. As it seems Palm OS 5.0 will be the first Palm OS designed to run on top of DragonARM chips, I guess they will provide

Removing Popup Trigger Arrows

I'm trying to remove the black triangle arrow that appears with popup triggers in the form. Anyone know a useful way of doing this? Thanks Glenn -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Is this normal behaviour after FrmGotoForm?

OK, I've researched a bit more, and found the following: - Indeed, the handler member of a FormType has the address of the event handler function, but this has been of no use because - When I receive the frmCloseEvent, FrmGetActiveForm returns a pointer to a FormType consistent with

Re: WinSetBackColor and Visor Prism

One other thing. This code works just fine on a Palm IIIc and a Palm m505. Thanks, Mike McCollister --- Mike McCollister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone know why this does not work on a Visor Prism? The text shows up as white on white instead of white text with a deep red

Re: Removing Popup Trigger Arrows

Why don't you use a faceless button or gadget, and a hidden list that you can make appear and dissapear? This will be faster and easier than hacking the popTrigger drawing mecha- nism... - Original Message - From: Glenn Keighley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum To: Palm

PalmOS bug?

During some netlib development I've encountered the message non-free chunk in free list. In my code I do some memory allocation using (in the first versione of the program) MemPtrNew and MemPtrFree. This call are made while the NetLib is open. After some memory allocation I got a message stating

Re: WinSetBackColor and Visor Prism

I did a little more research and found that there seems to be some sort of problem with WinRGBToIndex on the Prism. When I call this command, I get errors like this on POSE 3.1: TestProg (1.0.1) just read from memory location 0x, which is in low memory. Low memory is defined as the

Connect with windows RAS

Hi, Can someone tell me where to find a complete step by step setting, in order to use Windows RAS to give internet connection to my palm via the cradel. Thanks in advance. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Re: Connect with windows RAS

Just a precision : I work under Win2000 Server sebastien GUERLET [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit dans le message news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Can someone tell me where to find a complete step by step setting, in order to use Windows RAS to give internet connection to my palm via the cradel.

MemoryMgrNew error

Hi Group, This is the error I am getting . Pls tell me what the error means and also how can I find in which line of code the error is pointing to so that I get a idea where the error is. Application Name1.0 reports MemoryMgrNew.c, Line:4132,NULL handle. If this is the latest version of

Re: FIX FOR: WinSetBackColor and Visor Prism

I guess that I found a bug in the Visor Prism. As it turns out, the code below was writing to an offscren window. If I wrote directly to the screen, then the problem did not exist. In order for me to get this to work and still write to an offscreen buffer, I had to do the following:

Re: Connect with windows RAS

Try this: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~echobase/network/win2k/ It works for me under Win2K pro. Best regards Pietro -- The pawn is the most important piece on the chessboard... up to the pawn. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Re: Getting Address to beam programatically

Hi Danny, help. You might be able to use the key queue. In the end, you'll probably have to duplicate the beaming code, but you shouldn't have to duplicate the That's the thing that I've been wanting to avoid. The beaming code in Address is really 1 huge chunk! And I understand that it's not

Re: MemoryMgrNew error

Hi, This is the error I am getting . Pls tell me what the error means and also how can I find in which line of code the error is pointing to so that I get a idea where the error is. Application Name1.0 reports MemoryMgrNew.c, Line:4132,NULL handle. If this is the latest version of

PDB backup bit

Everytime I get a PDB off either the handheld or the POSE, the backup bit is set to true. Is there a way to get a version of the pdb to my PC without the backup bit set?? -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

4-byte integers an 11 segment application problem

Hi. I'm trying to convert a windows-ce application to the palm. The application is Huge (needs 11 segments so far) It started fine (doesnt crash immediatley displays the MMI) , until I converted it to a 4-byte integer (Including replacing the Runtime Palm OS (4i)) from that point it stopped

Categories

Hello How I will be able to use the Categories. Please let me know the steps used for the Categories. 1. How it initialized. 2. How the database is attached to it. 3. Which event get fireed when user selects / add / delete / rename a Categories. I have seen the ToDo Application but unable to

Re: Near data segment is bigger than 64 k.

Palm OS has a 64K limit on memory allocation, try breaking up your array and using dynamic allocation (I have not seen a situation yet were one could not use dynamic allocation in lieu of a static declaration) - Original Message - From: elena [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum

Re: Categories

Philip Streck Akron General Medical Center Information Systems Amit [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/30/01 09:37AM Hello How I will be able to use the Categories. Please let me know the steps used for the Categories. 1. How it initialized. You initialize the categorys when you initialize the appinfo

RE: 4-byte integers an 11 segment application problem

the sizes reported in Codewarrior are the sizes of all functions compiled for that segment, not the sizes of all functions linked into that segment. To get the latter (the only one that matters) value, you need to look at the map-file. To get a mapfile, go to the target settings and tell

Re: PDB backup bit

You can turn it off your self by using the bitwise exclusive operator. Philip Streck Akron General Medical Center Information Systems Richard.Johnstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/30/01 09:21AM Everytime I get a PDB off either the handheld or the POSE, the backup bit is set to true. Is there a way

Re: 4-byte integers an 11 segment application problem

Miron Ophir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:51047@palm-dev-forum... Hi. I'm trying to convert a windows-ce application to the palm. The application is Huge (needs 11 segments so far) It started fine (doesnt crash immediatley displays the MMI) , until I converted it to a 4-byte

Re: Searching records

Holger Klawitter wrote: There is only one problem for me yet. I want my DB to be sorted in three ways. I cannot sort on demand (because of amount of records). What is the way to do that? Palm OS itself does not provide support for that. But you can create an index DB yourself (at

RE: event queue full after only 11 application events!

Thanks, Keith. I did all this last night before I saw your email, but ran into some interactions with the client code that didn't make sense. I'll go work those out. Thanks for confirming the depth (or lack of) of the event queue. * Add a private queue to hold your custom event data. *

Re: My app quits receiving form events [Was Weird behaviour of FrmGotoForm and MemHandleNew]

Juan de Dios Santander Vela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:51015@palm-dev-forum... What can cause a Palm app or the Palm OS no to generate winEnterEvents, frmLoadEvent and frmOpenEvent after a FrmGotoForm, and when it has sent frmCloseEvent, winExitEvent, penUpEvent and a nilEvent.

Some questions about PALM databases...

Hello! I just a beginner in the PALM OS developing, so I have some questions to the PALM community: My application should watch on the Contacts, Notes, Tasks and E-mails and do something when new Contact (Notes etc.) appears, or one Contact deletes or one Contact changes. So, the first question:

OT: How many people actually register shareware games

Not to open up the whole best way to copy protect your work thread. I've been working the past 6 months on a game, mainly for fun and my own personal enjoyment. Now that it is coming to completion I would like to release it. But I have to decide to GPL it or release it as shareware. Soo,

RE: Searching records

Aha! I sorted the DB in three ways and stored uid of records. If you want fast access to your records, you must access them through record number, not UID. DmFindRecordByUID does a STUPID, top down search for a record with the passed in UID (of course, it cannot do anything else), so each

RE: How many people actually register shareware games

I've released shareware in two ways. The first was to release a fully functional product and rely on people's honesty to pay for it. The second was to provide an initial bankroll (they're casino games) and require registration in order to get more chips. I've found that very few people pay for

Need to catch a HotSync EVERYTIME

Hello all. I need to have my application be notified EVERYTIME a HotSync is completed. So, per the manual, I am trying to register sysNotifySyncFinishEvent. I have put the source below. ExecutedHotSync() just writes out a file so I know the HotSync completed. I also put some sound in so I

Re: XML Parser

Look into using KXML. Check out this web site: http://kxml.enhydra.org/software/documentation/index.html omar.. Mark Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:50909@palm-dev-forum... Is anyone aware of an XML parser library that is available for use with Palm OS? -- For

Re: Need to catch a HotSync EVERYTIME

What you need here is a notification handler... heres some exaple code static Err NotificationHandleEvent ( SysNotifyParamType *notify, UInt32 *refP ) { Err error = 0; switch ( notify-notifyType ) { case sysNotifySleepRequestEvent:

RE: How many people actually register shareware games

From: Jeremy Evans Soo, I wanted to tap the community for a rough average of how many people actually pay for shareware. I wouldn't mind making a couple of bucks for my hard work, but I want to weigh it against building a copy protection scheme and billing infrastructure. No copy

Destructive interaction with other apps?

Hi, I have some shareware software released for severaly months now with several thousand downloads and I have just gotten my first report of a Fatal Exception error. I do extensive testing of my apps before releasing via POSE and the gremlins. I cycle these apps for more than 1million cycles

EFIGS OS4.0 with Expansion?

Is anyone aware of a ROM file that is PalmOS4.0 EFIGS WITH card expandability? I write software for the expansion cards (VFS) and have users who have m505's with EFIGS. But alas I cannot find the rom's on Palm's provider pavilion. Only the m505 specific rom has card expandibility and is

Re: Need to catch a HotSync EVERYTIME

Thanks Philip, that worked like a charm... Ralph Krausse Expo International, Inc. 110 Shawmut Road Canton, MA 02021 telephone (781) 821-6653 www.expo-intl.com -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Re: NetLibSocketOpen fails but errno=0

The ERR returned was 04 = invalid params. I found that it started to work again when I de-selected ( in CodeWarrior ) Enums Always Int. I guess there are some large values for some enums in NetLib.. A note in a doc somewhere would be nice - though most people ( myself included ) would

Chart and/or diagram of the PalmOS SDK (3.5 and 4.0).

Hello, I am looking for a chart and/or diagram of the PalmOS SDK (3.5 and 4.0). Something that I can pin to my wall and use for a quick reference for finding the different PalmOS provided structures, functions, and constants. If you have anything like this available, please let me know.

Re: Searching records

Bob's solution is a good one, but let me give you another. You can keep your records sorted by some kind of ID and then use vectors of these IDs to represent each of your three sort orders. The ID can be the system-generated unique ID, or an ID of your own stored in each record. -- Danny --

center aligned fields

Anyone come up with good solution to make a center aligned field? thanks, Philip Streck Akron General Medical Center Information Systems -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Char* Structures

(Sorry if this has been covered, but I didn't see anyting in the archive. ) I have a data structure declared for my App, with mostly Char*'s as members: typedef structure { bool mybool; char* one; char* two; char* three; } MyStruct; I use the structure to

KvmHttpTest on POSE!! Please help

Hi all...I'm trying to communicate between a server and a client using HTTP. I'm very new to this field and don't have much knowledge. I understand that I need to use thr ROM for Palm VII. I got it and set my Palm but I can't seem to be able to browse a URL correctly. What kind of browser or test

Re: How many people actually register shareware games

No copy protection scheme is foolproof. Whatever you build, someone will crack it. Indeed.. I have a software product aimed at knitters (don't ask.. suffice to say my wife is a knitting instructor and came up with the idea and the design.. it has sold better than I expected).. the same day it

Re: Categories

This is all really well documented. Have you even tried the tutorial yet? Jamie Amit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:51048@palm-dev-forum... Hello How I will be able to use the Categories. Please let me know the steps used for the Categories. 1. How it initialized. 2. How the

Re: Char* Structures

You are correct -- the pointers are not guaranteed to be valid after you unlock the handles. You should either use MemHandle in your struct (instead of char*), or use MemPtrNew instead of MemHandleNew. The second option is simpler, and more efficient in terms of execution speed. However, the

Re: Some questions about PALM databases...

Hi Anton, Let me answer your second question first. Database header has a field called modificationNumber which is incremented everytime a record is added, modified or deleted in that database. Coming to your second question, built-in apps have *data* database names like AddressDB,

Re: Searching records

Yes you're right. But what about sort info LocalID in Database Info Block ? Is it possible to store sort info chunk for each sort order and change only sortinfoLocalID by DmSetDatabaseInfo? (as i remember one example application stored uid of record as TblRowID, then used it for finding and

Re: Programming hacks in CW6

Gee, Craig Patchett, who is also on this mailing list, has created an updated version of DemoHack that will work with R6. You may want to search the list archives for his email address (sorry I don't have it). I have the R7 version of the same hack. I'm sure it would be helpful in hack creation.

HandEra Developer Contest Extended

At the request of several developers, we have extended our developer contest through the month of June. The new ending date will be July 2nd, 2001. For complete details and submission guidelines, please visit our support web site at http://www.handera.com/support/developsupport.asp. -Mike

Re: Some questions about PALM databases...

Arvind Sridharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:51102@palm-dev-forum... Database header has a field called modificationNumber which is incremented everytime a record is added, modified or deleted in that database. Beware of apps that use DmQueryRecord (rather than DmGetRecord), and

Re: Destructive interaction with other apps?

At 2:17 PM -0400 5/30/01, Dan Peluso wrote: Does anybody have recommendations on how to make my app more protected from this or how to diagnose a weakness in my app that might be exposing this. Perhaps if you could give us a few more details on what triggers the exception we might be able to

Re: Searching records

Is it possible to store sort info chunk for each sort order and change only sortinfoLocalID by DmSetDatabaseInfo? You would have to pack all the soft info into one chunk and manage it yourself. Regards, Steve Mann -- --- Creative Digital Publishing Inc.

Regarding sending and recieving

hi all, I am writing application which sends the data and writes into teh launcher. Any body got an idea that how Hotsync will take the data i.e the .prc file from desktop and sends and writes into the plam device. I need the basic functionality which hotsync does. Reading the data and sending

Re: Destructive interaction with other apps?

Hi, Thanks for the speedy response. Unfortunately, I do not have much more info than a Fatal exception message pops up that requires a soft reset. I usually test my apps on 3 different ROMS (different devices, different OSs ranging from OS 3.0 - 3.5.2) using POSE and gremlins and a million

Re: 68K Processor ScrollBars

I do not getting the scrollbar for the List control if Struct Alignment is set to 68K in Target Settings Panels/Code Generation/68K Processor. If I set it to 68K 4-byte, the scrollbar is there and works fine. But this doesn't solve all the problems. When at 68K 4-byte, the scrollbar for the

Re: PalmOS bug?

During some netlib development I've encountered the message non-free chunk in free list. In practice, the only way that you get this is if you've overwritten (or caused the OS to overwrite) some of the memory manager's internal structures. So what you need to do is debug a memory stomp, which C

Re: Some questions about PALM databases...

Let me answer your second question first. Database header has a field called modificationNumber which is incremented everytime a record is added, modified or deleted in that database. OK, it's great! Now, how I can determine which record in the database was changed and the type of changes

Re: Destructive interaction with other apps?

Unfortunately, I do not have much more info than a Fatal exception message pops up that requires a soft reset. Any idea as to what they do before it happens? Can they reproduce it? If so, they ought to be able to describe to you what they do to make it happen. If not, that's a _long_ shot.

Re: Some questions about PALM databases...

how I can determine which record in the database was changed and the type of changes (I mean, INSERT, CHANGE or DELETE)? Are there some notifications routines? Not really. And there are no notification routines that will do what you want. Regards, Steve Mann --

Re: Destructive interaction with other apps?

Dan i had the same problem with my app. So I guess the PalmOs 3.3 is the problem cos i don't have problems with another Operative System. Regards Andrés M+S Telf. (511)448-4116 / 448-7874 Fax. (511)271-2393 http://www.msconsultores.com.pe -- For information on using the Palm

modem low battery detection

I'm developing an application that works with the palm modem. And I have to detect when the modem's battery low. Is there anybody that can tell me how can I detect this by software? Thanks a lot. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Re: How to download 4.0 ROM thru USB - USB specs?

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:20:01PM -0700, Keith Rollin wrote: S'truth! And since the original poster is using an m505, he can't use the trick of downloading the ROM via the USB-enabled PalmDebugger, which works only with Handspring devices. In order to interact with Palm USB devices,

Re: Some questions about PALM databases...

You can, however, detect if the database has been changed since u last opened it. See the API called DmDatabaseInfo for more info. Check the modification number. :) Regards, Gee. Steve Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:51121@palm-dev-forum... how I can determine which record in the

FYI ZCardZ - File Manager for Carded devices (m505 MMC, etc).

For those interested, I've adapted a version of my ZBoxZ program so it now works with the VFS. It can work with multiple cards (at least the pose-d Handera 330 allows this - and PiNGer now displays 16 greyscale in QVGA), and can do basic file management (copy, delete, rename, attributes, make

Re: Char* Structures

Hi, typedef structure { bool mybool; char* one; char* two; char* three; } MyStruct; What I suggest here is that it would be better to declare your strings as arrays rather than pointers. If you use pointers, you must make sure that your strings are still valid at that pointer location

Slow sync of pdb files

hello, I tried installing an app that uses a few pdb files and the sync is very slow. Also, when I perform the sync operation, all the names of the pdb files will appear in the list of installed programs. Only when I installed the prc file will the list of installed programs display the

Re: Char* Structures

--- Ng Wei Gee wrote: What I suggest here is that it would be better to declare your strings as arrays rather than pointers. --- end of quote --- This doesn't seem like it would solve the problem to me, since an array is just a pointer to the first element in the array. Without having a lock on

Form Titles

I want to change the title of a form at runtime, and I found an example of this in the Memo application. I followed their example (dealing with the tricky handling of the oldtitle, but I run into problems. The form title is defined in the resource, so I can't release the memory from the old

MemHandles

Does a MemHanlde have a copy constructor? Can I set one MemHandle = to a different one to return as a function parameter by reference? Steve Cochran -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

RE: Form Titles

So how did you do it actually? I just use FrmCopyTitle() to do that. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen A. Cochran Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 4:34 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Form Titles I want to change the title of a

RE: Form Titles

HI Steve, Try using the Function void FrmCopyTitle (FormType *formP, const Char *newTitle) Note: The size of the new title must not exceed the title size defined in the resource. When defining the title in the resource, specify an initial size at least as big as any of the strings to

Re: EFIGS OS4.0 with Expansion?

Yes, I think you've missed something at the provider pavilion. These ROMs are there in the provider pavilion. For testing for the expansion card you need ROMs that have the full extension. Also, you need to install HostFS.prc to actually simulate the expansion card in the emulator. Download

Re: Slow sync of pdb files

Hi, When I view the contents of the pdb files, I noticed that there are a lot of header information that appears before my database data. I noticed that the amount of header information appended to a pdb file is proportional to the amount of data I place in that file - the more data I