How do I move a Constructor file from Windows to Mac OS without a floppy drive?

Is there any way I can transfer a Constructor file from Windows to my Mac over a network? I've done some searches, read the manuals, and more, and I can't see anything but advice about how to do it with floppy disks. And I don't have a floppy drive in my Mac. I'm not even sure I have PC Exchange.

Posting Events to the queue

How do I programatically close an application. Can I post appStopEvent.. Thanx in advance. Vikas -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

RE: Posting Events to the queue

Hi In the button click event or any event just assign the appStopEvent to the event occuring... like eventP-eType = appStopEvent; Regards Syed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of V...i...K...a...S Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 2:12 PM To:

Re: How do I move a Constructor file from Windows to Mac OS without a floppy drive?

After more searching I found an app on the Metrowerks site called DropRSR that solved my problem. Although this says it can be used to flatten a Mac resource file, it can also be used to reverse the process. http://www.metrowerks.com/pda/palm/extras/Utilities/ DropRSR is a Mac application

Re: Posting Events to the queue

Yah I can do this but the EventType structure has more information. And it can be so that when an appStopEvent is fired then this struct shall have some information for the system which shall be unavailable if i just programatically change the event type. - Original Message - From: Syed

RE: Posting Events to the queue

Thats the only way i found to exit programmatically, but before that u can save the changes which is present in the struct of event... thats the solution vikas -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of V...i...K...a...S Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002

Re: WinRGBToIndex on Visor Prism

In article 81124@palm-dev-forum, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... I'm having problems with WinRGBToIndex() on the Visor Prism. Here's the report from the Emulator: Ultimate (1.0) just read from memory location 0x, which is in low memory... When this happens it's on a call to

RE: WinRGBToIndex on Visor Prism

Have u allocated memory before using the memory location. if not, then pls do the same.. This Error is due to the fact that the variable u r using is refering to 0 memory location which the palm is unable to read. It means u r referring to NULL value. maybe this will help you -Original

RE: WinRGBToIndex on Visor Prism

Something u shud do like this before using it in WinRGBToIndex rgbP = (RGBColorType *) MemPtrNew(sizeof(RGBColorType)); I hope this will solve your problem Syed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ben Combee Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 2:50

RE: Posting Events to the queue

Hi, I'm interfering in between, the reason is that whenever I post something it does not appear in the palm forum. Hi, I'm developing an application where in signature has to be collected on palm device which may be synchronized with the desktop application. Can anyone guide me on how to go

The existing date is not similar to the previous date of the file stream

The following code is the file stream created during the launching application. For the 1st launching, a current date will be written to a file. For the following launching, the current date will be compared with the previous date through the file created. Now my problem is that, the date1.day

Signature Capturing

Hi, I'm developing an application where in signature has to be collected on the palm device. The captured signature would be synchronized with the desktop application. Can anyone guide me on how to go about it ? Any links or sample code would be really appreciated. (I already have Signature and

Re: Signature Capturing

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Shoeb wrote: I'm developing an application where in signature has to be collected on the palm device. The captured signature would be synchronized with the desktop application. Can anyone guide me on how to go about it ? Any links or sample code would be really

Re: The existing date is not similar to the previous date of the file stream

I hope u r not updating the database file Date.txt while closing the application or closing the form .etc.. - Original Message - From: quennie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 4:15 PM Subject: The

RE: Signature Capturing

Thanks for your advice, I fully agree with u boss but I'm new with Palm OS. I'm doing R D on that, I know how it works. But the funda is how to save the screen to the bmp format ?? i.e how to extract image information from the window ?? If u could help me out then I would be thankful to u,

RE: Signature Capturing

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Shoeb wrote: Thanks for your advice, I fully agree with u boss but I'm new with Palm OS. I'm doing R D on that, I know how it works. But the funda is how to save the screen to the bmp format ?? i.e how to extract image information from the window ?? If u could help me

RE: Signature Capturing

Thanks, I'm already following the same path. Will come to u if any difficulty or problem arises. Thanks again :-) Shoeb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aaron Ardiri Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 4:57 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject:

Float Formatting

Hi all, We have the following requirement:- I have multiplied 2 floating values and converted the result into a string .The string value is not formatted properly i.e I want :- 12.34 i am getting :- 1.23400e01 Does the palm OS provide an functions for getting what I want or i shall have to

RE: Signature Capturing

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Shoeb wrote: Thanks, I'm already following the same path. Will come to u if any difficulty or problem arises. thats all you need from the palmos side of things.. if you want to save it in a .bmp format, thats anothing thing altogether.. maybe you'd like to search for

CodeWarrior and printing again

Hi folks has anyone encountered and problems printing from CW8 over a network from XP? or indeed printing at all? regards Jon -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

writing to DB

Hi all, i'm trying to write two records to a database for a palm app and i'm new to all of this pointing to positions in memory and all of that crack. i have a fn to addtodatabase: Err AddToDatabase (PlannerDBPtr record) { Err error = errNone; UInt16 newIndex = dmMaxRecordIndex;

RE: Float Formatting

There is one library available for PalmOS to do the Floating point manipulation. It is called as MathLib... U can get it and make ur work done.. Syed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of V...i...K...a...S Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 5:16 PM

RE: Float Formatting

Hello friend, I was facing the same problem a long ago. Though Math.lib provides methods for float value calculation there is no specific API for converting float to string. I had received the following custom function from palm device forum. Use it to solve the problem. Regards Shoeb void

Re: Float Formatting

There are no float formatting routines built into the OS/SDK you will have to write your own. Search this forum's archives for previously posted examples and hints. - Original Message - From: V...i...K...a...S [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Save Record Correctly

Hi, everybody: i am new in Palm programming ... i define a following type .. typedef struct { Char name[2]; UInt8 reserved; } MyRecordType; when i try to save a record ... MyRecordType newrecord; recordH = DmNewRecord(dbP,CurrentRecord,sizeof(MyRecordType)); if (recordH) { recordP =

Switching between popup forms

Hi, I'm working on an application which will have a series of popup forms in a wizard. When the user completes a form a taps on the Next button, I need to switch to the next form in the process. For other reasons, I really need to be able to call these forms via FrmPopupForm and not via

Re: Size of chunck larger than the currently accepted maxi chunk

1) always check the pointer returned by MemPointerNew or MemHandleNew for errors before using. 2) there is a max size for allocating memory. the first limitation is the 64K barrier, the second is the smallest available contiguous piece of memory that meets the allocation requirements. you may

PalmDev: Error: Signed .word overflow

Is anyone here familiar with this problem? Please give me a hand. Using SDK-4.01 prc-tools-2.0.92-1 I'm getting lots of these Signed .word overflow errors when I add valid lines of code to various functions in a project. Here is one such instance obtained by uncommenting the following code

dynamic popup trigger

Hi, I am trying to dynamically create a popup trigger, but don't see any kind of API for setting the listid in the popup. Has anyone had success doing this? Thanks, Ellen _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger:

Re: Building static libraries

Thanks Ben! Ben Combee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:81094@palm-dev-forum... Young S. Cho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:81044@palm-dev-forum... I'm trying to group code to build as static and shared libraries. I am doing this by creating two different targets from

RE: Posting Events to the queue

From: V...i...K...a...S How do I programatically close an application. Can I post appStopEvent.. Thanx in advance. --- Syed Najeebullah Hussaini wrote: In the button click event or any event just assign the appStopEvent to the event occuring... like eventP-eType = appStopEvent; That is

Re: WinRGBToIndex on Visor Prism

Mike McCollister was having the same problem a few months ago. See http://www.escribe.com/computing/pcpqa/m40643.html for his solution to it. It looks like a bug in Handspring's implementation of this call when the added 16-bit support. I thought that error sound familiar. I hope

Re: Posting Events to the queue

Thx Joe.. - Original Message - From: Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 8:32 PM Subject: RE: Posting Events to the queue From: V...i...K...a...S How do I programatically close an application. Can I post appStopEvent..

RE: Posting Events to the queue

From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] That is not a good idea. Changing one event into another event will have bad side effects if you don't know what you are doing. In particular, it won't work in the PACE emulator in OS 5. If you modify the event from within an event handler, you'll modify

RE: WinRGBToIndex on Visor Prism

From: Syed Najeebullah Hussaini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Something u shud do like this before using it in WinRGBToIndex rgbP = (RGBColorType *) MemPtrNew(sizeof(RGBColorType)); Why on earth would you heap-allocate a 4-byte structure? -slj- -- For information on using the Palm Developer

Re: Save Record Correctly

--- cpssband cpssband wrote: snip typedef struct { Char name[2]; UInt8 reserved; } MyRecordType; when i try to save a record ... snip a = nasri; How many bytes do you think it takes to store 'n', 'a', 's', 'r', 'i', '\0' ? The size of MyRecordType is 3 bytes; two Chars, followed

Re: WinRGBToIndex on Visor Prism

Ben Combee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike McCollister was having the same problem a few months ago. See http://www.escribe.com/computing/pcpqa/m40643.html for his solution to it. It looks like a bug in Handspring's implementation of this call when the added 16-bit support. I don't think this

Tracing on Palm

Hi, Has anybody implemented debug tracing on Palm. How can I trace the execution and log into some thing. The possibility I can think off is log to private database/or Memopad. Or if on Emulator can I write an tracer to write directly to a file on PC. Is there some code available. Thanks -AS

RE: dynamic popup trigger

You shouldn't have to do anything manually to make a popup trigger with a list . . . if using CW, simple create a popup trigger, and then a list, and make sure to add the list's ID to the popup trigger. The OS will take care of catching the penDownEvent/ctlSelectEvent on the popup trigger and

Font Resource Format

Can anybody point me to where I might find the format for the font resources. I would like to use the FntDefineFont() API call, but can't seem to find the format for a font file anywhere. Thanks Lance Gregory -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Re: Save Record Correctly

however, it comes out 'na0' anybody knows the reason ?? it only can accept 3 characters ?? Um, because you only allocated enough room for 2 characters typedef struct { Char name[2];// Only enough room for 2 characters UInt8 reserved; } MyRecordType; Pick the Max #

Re: CodeWarrior and printing again

In article 81169@palm-dev-forum, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... Hi folks has anyone encountered and problems printing from CW8 over a network from XP? or indeed printing at all? There is a known problem printing with the CW Palm OS V8 IDE (4.2.5 b768, IIRC) and a class of printers that

Re: Switching between popup forms

In article 81186@palm-dev-forum, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... Hi, I'm working on an application which will have a series of popup forms in a wizard. When the user completes a form a taps on the Next button, I need to switch to the next form in the process. For other reasons, I really need to

Re: Tracing on Palm

In article 81207@palm-dev-forum, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... Has anybody implemented debug tracing on Palm. How can I trace the execution and log into some thing. See http://www.palmoswerks.com/stories/storyReader$21 for an overview of different tracing techniques, but on and off device. --

Signature Printing on Printer

Hello I am writing a program which captures the signature on palm and then send that signature for printing to the Oneil printer using the symbol SDK. Have any body did this before if yes please gude me how to send the signature to the printer. thanks shailesh -- For information on using the

RE: Tracing on Palm

Great! Thanks -AS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ben Combee Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 10:22 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Tracing on Palm In article 81207@palm-dev-forum, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... Has anybody

RE: Signature Printing on Printer

Shailesh, I wrote a simple app that does this. Basically I handled all of the penDown and penMove events to create a list of 'lines', then I just outputted each of those lines to the printer. (I was just using sockets to a network printer, but I'm assuming that the symbol SDK will allow for

Problem running a saved emulator state

I'm testing my application using Gremlins and version 3.3 of the emulator. I 've configured Gremlins to run only my application and to save the state after 1000 events. This all appears to be working find. When Gremlins run for the first time, my application crashes at event 21,805. I load my

RE: Signature Printing on Printer

Heelo Craig Can you tell me how did you pass the command to the printer with data.My printer is taking the command but it is not printing any thing just passing the paper forward to the height of signature(bitmap).which printer did you use shailesh -Original Message- From: Craig

Re: Font Resource Format

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Lance Gregory wrote: Can anybody point me to where I might find the format for the font resources. I would like to use the FntDefineFont() API call, but can't seem to find the format for a font file anywhere. pilrc has to what i know the best reverse engineered work for

RE: Signature Printing on Printer

Shailesh, I'm using an HP 4050N printer. I'm sending the data using NetLib with a Xircom 802.11b LAN adapter. I'm sending the data in postscript format. Here's the data: StrCopy(pBuffer, @PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = POSTSCRIPT \r\n); // Tell the printer to use postscript format StrCat (pBuffer,

Re: Dynamically setting helpID for modal form

Oliver Steinmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to use the standard modal form help mechanism via the i icon in the upper right corner, but it would require setting the HelpID attribute dynamically when opening the form. It appears there is no API to do this?! In the 4.0r1 SDK,

DmSeekRecordInCategory - skips, why?

Hi, I used the following code to always walk to the NEXT record in a given Category and I am certain id did work. uiCat = CategoryFind(_PalmDatabase, pcCat); uiIdx = (UInt)_Position; error = DmSeekRecordInCategory(_PalmDatabase, uiIdx, 0, dmSeekForward, uiCat);

Re:creating and accessing PDB file

Hi there, I am able to create the pdb file in the desktop platform, when I installed the application and the pdb file, I able to view the records of the pdb just once. You mean you view it on the Palm? How do you view the records? And the whole pbd disappears so you can't view it again? If

Re: writing to DB

At 11:56 AM + 3/25/02, Mark Kenny wrote: recHandle = DmNewRecord(gDB, newIndex, sizeof(Weekday)+StrLen(record-Modules)+StrLen(record-Type)+1 if (recHandle) { recPointer = MemHandleLock(recHandle); DmWrite(recPointer,

Porting existing vanilla C/C++ code to Palm

Hi, I'm trying to port some existing vanilla C/C++ code to the Palm. I'm trying the PRC-Tools as well as an evaluation of CodeWarrior. I'll probably be back here asking more questions as I go along, but for starters, does anyone know of a iostream library that will work with either PRC-Tools or

Porting existing C/C++ code base to Palm

Hi, I am trying to port some existing vanilla C/C++ code to the Palm. I am trying the PRC-Tools as well as an evaluation of CodeWarrior. I will probably be back here asking more questions as I go along, but for starters, does anyone know of a iostream library that will work with either PRC-Tools

Re:creating and accessing PDB file

From: ThuNguyet Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:creating and accessing PDB file Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:43:12 -0800 (PST) Hi there, I am able to create the pdb file in the desktop platform,

Continually Beaming Kiosk

Hi- I have heard a discussion exists along these line, yet I am unable to find it in egroups. I'd like to build a continually beaming kiosk out of a palm for an upcoming trade show. I've written code to beam my application, but of course the PalmOS throws up a modal dialog upon failure to

Hack Preference Form #2

I have a hack that needs a second preference dialog. I know that I can use 2001 for the second dialog and have HackMaster/X-Master/TealMaster handle setting up the event handlers but I need a little more control. How can I bring up a second dialog without having to close the first dialog? I

Passing fields between forms

I am building an application that has a main form and sub forms that need to share data. After struggling with handles for a while, I am convinced there must be an easier way. For those that have done this, if they can offer quick advice or sample code with preferred techniques, I'd appreciate

Re: Launchcode and MemPtrNew

Akhilesh, Since you're forcing us to guess instead of using a debugger to figure this one out, my guess is that you are not completely initializing the data structure you are passing to your plug-in. When allocated on the stack, some uninitialized field is set to one (fortuitously benign)

Re: Problem running a saved emulator state

At 1:05 PM -0500 3/25/02, Michael Brennan wrote: I'm testing my application using Gremlins and version 3.3 of the emulator. I 've configured Gremlins to run only my application and to save the state after 1000 events. This all appears to be working find. When Gremlins run for the first time, my

RE: Continually Beaming Kiosk

Hi again! I have heard a discussion exists along these line, yet I am unable to find it in egroups. Try eScribe instead. It doesn't go back as far, but it's search function is better in some ways (and worse in others). If you want to search for short strings, such as Palm OS version numbers,

RE: appInfoID and sortInfoID for resource DBs

Could there be appInfoID and sortInfoID for resource DBs? Yup. The Palm File Format Spec document indicates that these are applicable to both record and resource databases. Is that a just-in-case situation? I can't think of any place where we use resource databases with either app info or

Err closing DB (was RE: Fatal Error)

DataMgr.c Line 2369, Err closing DB (For future posts, include the OS version type (debug/release) - it makes it easier to track down. A better subject would be good too.) You're on a debug ROM. You're calling DmCloseDatabase and it's returning an error code. You can look at the error code to

Calling a patched Trap

Hi all- Sorry for what some will call a newby question. I guess if I were a better c programmer, I'd know how to do this. :-) I'm trying to patch a system trap with the following: UInt32 oldTrap; static void myPrgUpdateDialog (ProgressPtr prgP, UInt16 err, UInt16 stage, Char

RE: Calling a patched Trap

// how to call oldTrap with vars? PrgUpdateDialog(prgP, err, stage, messageP, updateNow); ... oldTrap = *(UInt32*)SysGetTrapAddress(sysTrapPrgUpdateDialog); First, you need access to oldTrap. Save it in a feature. Then you can access it when myPrgUpdateDialog() gets called. To call the old

WinDrawBitmap chooses wrong color depth on some devices?

Hello all, I've got an app that displays a bitmap family with WinDrawBitmap. The depths in this bitmap family are 1, 2, 4, and 16 bit. On an m505, this displays the 16 bit version, as it should. If I recompile with a bitmap family of 1, 2, and 4 bit images, the 4 bit image shows on the m505

Re: Hack Preference Form #2

In article 81267@palm-dev-forum, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... I have a hack that needs a second preference dialog. I know that I can use 2001 for the second dialog and have HackMaster/X-Master/TealMaster handle setting up the event handlers but I need a little more control. How can I bring

Re: PalmDev: Error: Signed .word overflow

I had the same problem. Apparent, you code is trying to make a cross segment jump which DRAGONBALL cannot do and you need to do some kind of multiple segment multi gen program, modify some def files and cut out your code so that no global part can be in separate segment etc... Go find out more

Re: sysNotifyEvtGotEvent

it would appear x-master, or setting a system trap is the only answer to this let me know if you think I am wrong thank you Mark Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:81057@palm-dev-forum... anyone know of any tricks to getting this to work after registering for the notification?

Re: WinDrawBitmap chooses wrong color depth on some devices?

--- Stan Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got an app that displays a bitmap family with WinDrawBitmap. The depths in this bitmap family are 1, 2, 4, and 16 bit. snip ... result in a one bit image being displayed on a Sony Clie, which should be showing the 4 bit version. snip

Setting the Insertion point

I know there is probably a knowledge base article on this, and I seem to recall a funky work around 'back in the day'. But I'm having a bit of trouble setting the insertion point so it's visible on 3.3 devices (my Vx). I'm tried using both FrmSetFocus and FldGrabFocus (both seperate and

Upgrading for Symbol OS

hi all, I have questions which regarding Symbol devices. 1) How to upgrade Symbol OS from PalmOS3.0 to OS3.5. 2) Is there any website provides upgrading information. 3) Is there any SDK for symbol OS3.5? Where can i get it from? YOur help is appreciated. rgds, ailee

Re: dynamic popup trigger

The list you have created must be dynamic with the triggerID specified as the ID of the Popup you have created. I will not suggest you to do this though. In case you are later on going to delete the popup there might be some problems. Better use LstPopupList to pop the desired list when the

Query - Emulating Multithreaded Environment in Palm

I am supposed to port my Windows CE application to PalmOS. My WinCE application uses Windows Sockets wherein a thread is dedicated to recv() incoming messages. Palm is a single threaded platform. So is there any workaround to emulate a Multithreaded environment in Palm, or atleast a dual threaded

CARD NO.

Hello Palmitizens or Palmatians, Can anybody explain the Card No. concept of database. Also what kinda situations I shall have to handle while assigning a card no. to a Database. Thx in Advance. Regards, Vikas -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please

Re: WinDrawBitmap chooses wrong color depth on some devices?

I've got an app that displays a bitmap family with WinDrawBitmap. The depths in this bitmap family are 1, 2, 4, and 16 bit. snip ... result in a one bit image being displayed on a Sony Clie, which should be showing the 4 bit version. snip What is the default color depth on the Clie?

Palm code resource 64K

Hi, I have developed a plugin (Code Resource) whose size is more than 64K. Because of this i am getting linker errors saying that 16-bit code reference to 'xyz()' is out of range. What should i do for this as i can't have more than one segment in a code resource. Any help regarding

PalmOS 3.5 / 4.0

Hi All Can anyone inform me, when PalmOS 3.5 and PalmOS 4.0 Versions released. Pls if possible i need to knwo the month and year of its release Thanks Syed -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: BmpGetBits

In article 81328@palm-dev-forum, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... How to retrieve the bytes using BmpGetBits() function?I am unable to capture the raw data of bitmap.Please help me. If you are trying to capture part of the screen, you need to take a two stage approach. First, create an offscreen

Re: Palm code resource 64K

In article 81345@palm-dev-forum, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... I have developed a plugin (Code Resource) whose size is more than 64K. Because of this i am getting linker errors saying that 16-bit code reference to 'xyz()' is out of range. What should i do for this as i can't have more than one

Re: PalmOS 3.5 / 4.0

In article 81346@palm-dev-forum, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... Can anyone inform me, when PalmOS 3.5 and PalmOS 4.0 Versions released. Pls if possible i need to know the month and year of its release Palm OS 3.5 was released with the Palm IIIxe and Palm IIIc devices in March 2000, although