Uh oh. Many new things to learn :-). So I got the .pdfs about
SED1375/SED1376.
Well, It looks these chips have all nesessery features - wide virtual
screens
and 80K looks enough for 3 160x160x8bpp pages in VRAM.
Well, for next few days I am learning from this documents and experiment.
The problem
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Keith Rollin wrote:
--- David Fedor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It has been a long and frustrating story which I won't
burden you with...
But it's the soap opera material like that story that keeps
palm-dev-forum interesting! :)
Is that why the KnowledgeBase server
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Stanley Silverspeed wrote:
Uh oh. Many new things to learn :-). So I got the .pdfs about
SED1375/SED1376.
yep.. they have a nice resting place on my harddrive too :)
soon, i'll be announcing something in which we can have some
fun with a Palm m505:
Hi all,
Does anyone knows how to get ASCII number os character?
How can I check if character is a number or letter?
Regards,
Rafail
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Hi ,
Looks we cant access the Structures directly , does it means we cant
generate any resourse programatically all has to be first done thru
Constructor .
Thanks
Rohit
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Setup: Pose 3.4 and ROM 4.0
I always thought that if EvtEventAvail () is true then EvtGetEvent
(event, timeOut) should always work and should not wait for an event. As it
turns out, this is not the case. EvtEventAvail () could be true and
EvtGetEvent (event, timeOut) can still wait and wait and
I know this is a long shot but is there anyway to force a Palm unit to
retain its user details when the battery goes flat or after a hard reset. Is
there a database that can be flashed that will allow the unit to retain the
userID etc.
The reason I am asking is that we are doing a network
I haven't been following the forums for some time now, so forgive me if this
question has been answered (I couldn't find any information in the
archives).
Is Palm working on a Mac OS version of the Palm OS 5 Simulator? I seem to
recall it was mentioned in earlier seeding materials, but I can't
-Original Message-
From: Brian Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Hotmail - Chris wrote:
Does anyone know if there will be a .NET runtime for Palm v5.0?
GOD I hope not...
From the experiences of various .NET developers at my place of employment,
.NET
--- Rafail Mladenov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone knows how to get ASCII number os character?
How can I check if character is a number or letter?
TxtCharIsAlpha() and TxtCharIsDigit() and TxtCharIsAlNum(). See the
API reference.
I have seen this effect when using NetLibSelect with sysFileDesStdin. It
acts as if EvtGetEvent sometimes does some type of internal processing on
events in the queue and discards some. Thus there may be events in the que
when EvtEventAvail is called, but EvtGetEvent discards them all internally
I think the problem w/ the Mac simulator is hardware architecture.
While Palm was on the 68k architecture, Mac users had a simulator
and PC users only had the emulator. Now with the move to StrongARM
the byte is on the other end of the word and the PC users can get
a simulator but the Mac users
Hi
The only way you can do that is:
1) buy the Rom Kit and hardcode USerID
2) Buy a Backup program that can save that DB to Flash,
next time just Restore from Flash
regards
José Zouain
Zeta Concepts, Inc.
Zeta Pro - Inventory Control Accounting System
www.zetaconcepts.com
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I am new to C and to Palm programming. I have the Palm manuals, and an
assortment of Palm Programming books, and an assortment of C books
(including KR), but I must be looking in all the wrong places when it comes
to basic concepts that everyone else seems to take for granted. Namely, how
to
It depends on where you got the memory that the pointer references.
If it was originally from a handle, then MemPtrRecoverHandle (or some such
similar function, I am shooting from memory here) will do your business for
you.
If it was NOT originally from a handle, then you cannot get a handle
I tried downloading the OS 5 Simulator and SDK but am getting 404 errors.
Could this be related to the KB being down?
Ed.
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I have some sporadic reports of crashes with users .. I have narrowed it
down to happening during a DmQuickSort of the database .. are there any
known issues that might cause DmQuickSort to crash? (Other than the obvious
of my compare routine causing it, of course.)
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What are the conventions for choosing the file extension of a Palm database
stored outside of the Palm? I presume that 'appl' and 'libr' databases get
the PRC extension, and that most other database types get the PDB extension.
Has a set of rules been codified? Thanks...
Eric W. Sirko
I tried downloading the OS 5 Simulator and SDK but am getting 404 errors.
Could this be related to the KB being down?
Nothing to do with the KB.
Let me gaze into my crystal ball... ah, I am getting an impression that
you're using Netscape... I am further getting an impression that the people
I create a record using DmNewRecord, read in a form field with
FldGetTextPtr, create a structure, copy the name field to the
structure, and save it to my new record location using DmWrite. When
this form closes and the main form list displays the record names,
the name field is only displayed if
Just a random thought here. DmNewRecord creates a new record and, possibly,
changes the location (indexes) of existing records. Perhaps your main form
is looking at the wrong record?
-bob mckenzie, palmsource pdx
-Original Message-
From: Kathleen Aiello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
--- Bradly J. Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have some sporadic reports of crashes with users ..
I have narrowed it down to happening during a DmQuickSort
of the database .. are there any known issues that might
cause DmQuickSort to crash? (Other than the obvious of my
compare routine
The main form list loops through all records before display, and
predictably lists the blankname strings interspersed with the blanks
for the records for which I entered text.
Thanks,
Kathleen
Just a random thought here. DmNewRecord creates a new record and,
possibly,
changes the location
(It is interesting to see how few people had trouble with this. I didn't
think Netscape's usage was quite *that* low...
We're still around. We just don't complain much.
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I've found a bug in a driver which can be avoided by powering the device
off. I'm trying to programmatically power the device off and then
immediately back on again.
My code successfully enqueues a keyDownEvent with chr = vchrAutoOff, and the
device sleeps as expected. I also set an alarm for
OK, second random thought.
You clearly are describing one more memory location (and copy) than you
need. That is, when you do the DmNewRecord, that reserves memory (and
returns a handle to it), you can than MemHandleLock it and copy your field
stuff (with DmWrite or DmStrCopy, or...) to it
What are the conventions for choosing the file extension of a Palm
database
stored outside of the Palm? I presume that 'appl' and 'libr' databases
get
the PRC extension, and that most other database types get the PDB
extension.
The backup conduit adds an extension to the database name to
Hi,
We have a PRC,a conduit and a desktop application.The
current application works in a one-to one manner i.e.
One Palm Synchronizes with the database on the PC. For
our next release we would like to have multiple palm
devices to synchronize with the same data on the
desktop.Currently our Palm
you're lacking any useful details here, but in short - if you have a conduit
and some data stored somewhere, this should be a no-brainer.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Venugopal B
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 2:14 PM
To: Palm
You can NOT safely assume that color devices use a specific SED chip. New
devices are constantly coming to market, from Palm, Sony, and others. The
rule should always be that you first check out what you're running on, and
only if you KNOW you've got a specific kind of hardware do you start
Is the source to the new notepad application available ?
That would be up to Palm (as opposed to PalmSource). I don't know what their
plans are.
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I tried the approach of watching the characters, and it was indeed a pain to
maintain. The worst cases are the characters that sometimes bring up dialogs
and sometimes don't. I recall two such characters. One is a low battery
character that only sometimes presents a low battery dialog. Another is
Does anyone knows whether is it possible to initiate retrieving
of vCards or vCalendars from the Palm?
I'm not sure what you're asking, but I have a guess... Palm OS's IrOBEX
implementation doesn't currently support GET, so you can't have some other
IrDA-capable device request a vObject from a
Alarms are only checked once a minute when the device is asleep. Perhaps
this explains the lag you're seeing.
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Danny,
For some reason this has never been totally clear to me (i probably just
haven't been paying attentiong):
-the source for the core apps is included with the SDK (and the SDK comes
from PalmSource).
-it is also my impression that the core apps are part of the platform (and
the platform
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Peter Epstein wrote:
You can NOT safely assume that color devices use a specific SED chip. New
devices are constantly coming to market, from Palm, Sony, and others. The
rule should always be that you first check out what you're running on, and
only if you KNOW you've got a
-the source for the core apps is included with the SDK (and the SDK comes
from PalmSource).
-it is also my impression that the core apps are part of the platform
(and
the platform comes from PalmSource).
If, by core, you mean the 4 PIM apps: Datebook, Address, To Do, and Memo
Pad, then
I work for the other half of Palm, so I really can't answer your question. I
too would love to hear more details on how the Astraware guys detect the
various hardware features and generally on how they do game development.
Their games have a consistent polished quality that is quite impressive.
Got it. This is as I suspected, just wanted to make sure I still had it
rightg
Glenn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Danny
Epstein
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 3:00 PM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: RE: Back again to beat the horse
From: Mr. Epstein
I work for the other half of Palm
Oh great... as if this Palm vs. PalmSource naming scheme wasn't confusing
enough, now the Epstein brothers on this forum look alike but apparently
work for the different parts of the company. I'm so lost. Now I see why
Tom Cruise and
PRESS RELEASE
April 5, 2002
Stockholm, Sweden
MobileWizardry in association with the Handheld Media Group Inc. and Palm
Nordic announce the first demo coding competition for the PalmOS(r)
Platform. Developers all around the world are invited to program demos -
to show off their technical and
--- Danny Epstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now that Palm and PalmSource are separate companies, Palm
is doing the same thing. Each licensee may release their
own header files, sample apps, etc; that's up to them.
Yikes!!! Chaos for developers!
Joe,
Each licensee may release their
own header files, sample apps, etc; that's up to them.
Yikes!!! Chaos for developers!
So what's the news here? Isn't that the way its always been? The sample are
good for ideas and maybe some code snippets. That will still be true.
Doing anything else
Does anyone knows how to get ASCII number os character?
How can I check if character is a number or letter?
Check out the Txt() family functions from the SDK.
- bobby
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I think the problem w/ the Mac simulator is hardware architecture.
While Palm was on the 68k architecture, Mac users had a simulator
and PC users only had the emulator. Now with the move to StrongARM
the byte is on the other end of the word and the PC users can get
a simulator but the Mac users
--- Danny Epstein wrote:
Each licensee may release their
own header files, sample apps, etc; that's up to them.
--- I wrote:
Yikes!!! Chaos for developers!
--- Douglas Handy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So what's the news here? Isn't that the way its always
been? The sample are good for
Joe,
I know. I guess I should have entered a few smileys.
Sorry, I missed the sarcasm (obviously). I'll go back to lurking now...
Doug
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When an alert box is being displayed via the FrmCustomAlert() function call,
my app does not receive any events. We have a need to trap events during
this time. Am I missing something or is this correct - we don't get events
when an alert box is up?
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Exactly. We could theoretically put together a Palm OS 5 simulator for Mac
OS, but it'd be big-endian and thus would be significantly different in the
pragmatics of operation from a real Palm OS 5 device. Once simulation gets
to be too different from the real thing, its value drops
From what I've heard (and believe me, I'm no expert on this stuff), the
PowerPC supports giving each process it's own endianness. This should make
it possible to implement a Mac simulator for Palm OS 5 that is
little-endian. Byte-swapping would have to be done when moving data between
the
I am iterating through a database and getting the number of records that match the
search criteria as seen below. Problem is
that p1 gets stuck on the first value and never changes. It does loop through the
correct num of times but p1 stays the same.
It's probably something stupid but it's
FrmCustomAlert calls FrmDoDialog, which has it's own event loop. You can set
up an event handler that gets first crack at all events, but I think you'd
need to call FrmDoDialog yourself rather than FrmCustomAlert.
The other alternative that comes to mind is to patch traps (on 68K based
devices)
Yeah, we're being split in two. At least we're not siamese twins ;-)
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Some Astraware games definitely do detect hardware and use custom blitters
tuned for that particular hardware (eg. Zap 2000 and 2016). I know lots of
other game developers do the same thing.
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Nevermind - I figured it out (I told you it was Friday).
Edward P. Ross wrote:
I am iterating through a database and getting the number of records that match the
search criteria as seen below. Problem is
that p1 gets stuck on the first value and never changes. It does loop through the
If you're just iterating through all the records anyway (since the category
argument to DmQueryNextInCategory() is dmAllCategories) why not just use
DmQueryRecord()?
Untested code:
totalNumber = DmNumRecords( gSRWorkDB );
for ( iRec = 0; iRec totalNumber; iRec++ ) {
recordH = DmQueryRecord(
Can I display a number value in the custom alert? Do I
have to convert it to a string first? Apparently it is
designed to display only strings? Any help would be
appreciated. Thanks Jay
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You need to convert the number to a string and that can be done with the StrIToA
function that is detailed in the Palm OS®
Programmer's API Reference.
Ed.
Jay Francis wrote:
Can I display a number value in the custom alert? Do I
have to convert it to a string first? Apparently it is
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Regards,
Amy
I have 3 of these errors, I tried to delete the form and it doesn't clear
this, how do you get rid of the event pointer?
Relocatable chunk leaked at 0xA086, size = 8
0.020: Chunk allocated by:
0.020: Unknown 0x0004F3E0
0.020: Unknown 0x0004CDC0
0.020: Unknown 0x000543DC
0.020: Unknown
Hello Everybody!
Where can I get Onboard C ? Does it still exist ? And whats the difference
between Onboard C and Pocket C ?
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e (Exclamation) Programming Language:
bill,
I'm not sure what event pointer you're talking about. But from the
information you give, the memory appears to be allocated in your
application. You can find out in which function by turning on your
compiler's option to generate Macsbug symbols. From the
documentation to be included
I think your question and this dump can open another chapter in Aaron's
contest ;-)
Try isolating code (usually by return-ing before some piece gets executed)
in order to figure out where the memory allocation occurs.
Another approach is to try to follow all new/delete pairs in the program
At 12:11 PM -0800 4/5/02, Scott Johnson wrote:
Now I see why Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz are breaking up. :-)
Damn! I was looking forward to the wedding and the bride's new name:
Penelope Cruz-Cruise (or would it be Cruise-Cruz?).
Regards,
Steve Mann
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--- D De Villiers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where can I get Onboard C ? Does it still exist ? And whats
the difference between Onboard C and Pocket C ?
Google is a good starting place for questions like this one.
At http://www.individeo.net/PalmProducts.html you will find this
statement:
thanx for the response. I am using a IDE called Mobile Studio, and it does
a lot of stuff for you and it works most of the time, buth when it
doesn't..and your not familiar with where everything is, it is hard, I can't
even get to the pilotmain routine, so if my question seems vague...well it's
I've discovered that when you set an alarm via AlmSetAlarm() and the alarm
is triggered, the alarm code in the OS calls EvtResetAutoOffTimer().
Unfortunately this means my program, which does something every 30 seconds,
keeps the device on forever.
I've also discovered that if you use
From: Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- Chris Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm getting a chunk overlocked error when repeatedly calling
SysStringByIndex. It seems that this code is locking the string
list resource and not unlocking it.
Looking at the source code, I don't think that's
I've discovered that when you set an alarm via AlmSetAlarm() and the alarm
is triggered, the alarm code in the OS calls EvtResetAutoOffTimer().
...
I've also discovered that if you use AlmSetProcAlarm() to set a procedure
alarm, the alarm code in the OS doesn't mess with the auto-off timer.
Danny,
Thank you very much for the information you have provided! I am using the
ROM (in Poser) I downloaded off of the real PalmV device, so that is why I
am a bit confused by the results. I use Palm Macros to set up the
application version. The reason I want to programmatically set the
At 5:02 PM -0800 4/5/02, Sasha Avanesov wrote:
The reason I want to programmatically set the 'tver' resource is to
ensure that if I forget to update the string in the Constructor, the
correct one still shows up under the Info menu. I believe that it
is a nice way to control the application
I've discovered that when you set an alarm via AlmSetAlarm() and the
alarm
is triggered, the alarm code in the OS calls EvtResetAutoOffTimer().
...
I've also discovered that if you use AlmSetProcAlarm() to set a
procedure
alarm, the alarm code in the OS doesn't mess with the auto-off
The documentation talks about the LCD if the device was off at the time,
but
the version of the docs that I have don't say anything about the auto-off
timer.
I didn't mean to imply that this behavior was documented, just that it's
what I'd expect. There is a single API that we generally use
Won't the Palm OS 5 Simulator run under Virtual PC on a Mac?
I'd settle for enough support for the Simulator under VPC to
talk with the debugger/ide running under Mac OS X (without
requiring an off-site linux reflector, as was done by one of
the PalmSource contestants I think...)
Ron Nicholson
Keith,
that is a very good point! there are work-arounds that problem, but the
reason I was using the scheme is simply because I felt it was prefereable
(to me) to
#define appVersionNumber sysMakeROMVersion(1, 0, 0,
sysROMStageDevelopment, 0)
and manipulate the numbers as the need prompts,
a reset fixes the problem, so it seems to me that maybe either the Info
menu does not query the 'tver' resource every time, but rather only at a
reset, or somehow the application database does not get updated properly
after modification and it takes a reset to kick things into a known state.
this
--- Sasha Avanesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a reset fixes the problem, so it seems to me that maybe
either the Info menu does not query the 'tver' resource
every time, but rather only at a reset, or somehow the
application database does not get updated properly after
modification and it
Hi,
I just had a quick look at the OS5 SDK and it seems like there is
still no glue library functions for FrmShowObject and FrmHideObject.
Especially now that we can't even compile if we try to access internal
data structures of the form objects. (Yes! I do know about the
define statement, but
In article 82858@palm-dev-forum, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
So do I understand the proposed strategy properly:
1. I should check color capabilities of the device using
WinScreenMode(winScreenModeGetSupportedDepths...).
2. If it's monochrome (no 8 bpp mode), then the processor controls
the
Won't the Palm OS 5 Simulator run under Virtual PC on a Mac?
Yes it does.
Regards,
Steve Mann
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