RE: Palm OS 5 ARM development

2002-08-12 Thread Tribble, David
You might want to go dig at Palm Infocenter, a pretty good source of rumors. You'll find http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=3989 and http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=3647 , and can decide for yourself if the rumors are true and if they'll be ARM-based. And the Gadgeteer

Re: Palm OS 5 ARM development

2002-08-12 Thread Brad Figler
Not to sound redundant (but I will =) ), seriously, is there an general ball park of a release date for hardware running on the ARM processor? We have not been able to find anything that mentions this! The reason I ask is because we are about 2.5 months deep in developing a product and we are no

Re: question about ctlRepeatEvent

2002-08-12 Thread Alan Ingleby
Try: eventP->data.ctlRepeat.time += SysTicksPerSecond() / 5; This adds .2 second delay between repeats. Note that the fast repeating you are experiencing only happens in the emulator, not on a real device. Alan "Christian Eyrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:93557@palm-dev-fo

Re: question about ctlRepeatEvent

2002-08-12 Thread Christian Eyrich
Hi Alan, > From *memory*, write a ticks delay into eventP->data.ctlRepeat.time in > your event handler. Oh? I'd interpret the reference the way that time gives the ticks since the last event. But I tried it. > Let me know how this goes. Unfortunately it didn't work. Thanks, Christian --

Re: Model Form drawing problem

2002-08-12 Thread Chris Tutty
From: "Dave Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Is it possible that it is drawing and that a subsequent FrmDrawForm > > is erasing the screen again? > > I'm not calling FrmDrawForm. I have other forms that I draw on and I handle frmUpdateForm and all is well. > OK, so what's the difference? Are those

Re: About Games

2002-08-12 Thread Alan Ingleby
There's also http://www.dsbox.com/minigl.html, but hasn't been updated for a while now. Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:93528@palm-dev-forum... > > Hi! > > > I need to develop Games on Palm. I am new to games development . Let me educate in this area like what are things should be

Re: question about ctlRepeatEvent

2002-08-12 Thread Alan Ingleby
From *memory*, write a ticks delay into eventP->data.ctlRepeat.time in your event handler. Let me know how this goes. Alan "Christian Eyrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:93534@palm-dev-forum... > > Hi there, > > the UI of my app uses two repeating buttons. If the user klicks

Re: Palm OS 5 ARM development

2002-08-12 Thread Aaron Ardiri
> When is physical hardware running 5.0 going to be available? good question :) when you find out, you'll know :P between now and then? speculate *g* --- Aaron Ardiri CEO - CTO Mobile Wizardry http://www.mobilewizardry.com/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to

RE: Model Form drawing problem

2002-08-12 Thread Dave Brown
> The simple suggestions come down to differences in the > way PalmOS versions handle the form window. Are you > using the same PalmOS version in the emulator as the > Platinum? They are the same. > Is it possible that it is drawing and that a subsequent FrmDrawForm > is erasing the screen agai

Help! - button flickering

2002-08-12 Thread Yaniv Banari
Hi all, I have a button in a form which flickers on roms Palm OS 3.3 to Palm OS 4.1. On rest of the roms, I do not see the flickering. While debugging, I do not get any errors or anything. What exactly could be causing this? Where exactly do I need to look to solve this problem? I have been trying

Re: Palm OS 5 ARM development

2002-08-12 Thread Brad Figler
When is physical hardware running 5.0 going to be available? Brad "Aaron Ardiri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:93541@palm-dev-forum... > > > I have an interest/need to look into the ARM software side of the new OS 5. > > As such, the current OS5 simulator does not provide what I nee

Re: Model Form drawing problem

2002-08-12 Thread Chris Tutty
From: "Dave Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have a modal form that I'm attempting to do some drawing on. In POSE it works fine, but the Handspring Platinum is another story. > The Modal form displays and the frmUpdateEvent is called, which is where I do my painting. Problem is it never paints the s

Re: Palm OS 5 ARM development

2002-08-12 Thread Aaron Ardiri
> I have an interest/need to look into the ARM software side of the new OS 5. > As such, the current OS5 simulator does not provide what I need. I have to > actually poke around at the ARM code and get into the details of how OS 5 > works with the ARM processor. In the past the Palm emulators we

Palm OS 5 ARM development

2002-08-12 Thread Mauck, Robert
I have an interest/need to look into the ARM software side of the new OS 5. As such, the current OS5 simulator does not provide what I need. I have to actually poke around at the ARM code and get into the details of how OS 5 works with the ARM processor. In the past the Palm emulators were wonde

ExgDBWrite not sending all data....

2002-08-12 Thread Ralph Krausse
I am using ExgDBWrite() to get the raw data of the datatbase I am sending out through the COM port. The proc that ExgDBWrite() calls, gets called 7 times. I print out the size during each execution of this function. I alway come up 30 bytes short. Any ideas? Thanks Ralph -- For information on

Re: PrefSetAppPreferences - pref part missing

2002-08-12 Thread Keith Rollin
Werner, I don't have much to say except that there doesn't seem to be anything obviously wrong with your code or what you're doing. Yes, you should be able to add any amount of data to the preferences. And if you are specifying 6 for your data length, then an 8 byte chunk should appear in t

Model Form drawing problem

2002-08-12 Thread Dave Brown
Hi- I have a modal form that I'm attempting to do some drawing on. In POSE it works fine, but the Handspring Platinum is another story. The Modal form displays and the frmUpdateEvent is called, which is where I do my painting. Problem is it never paints the stuff on the screen. Any ideas? Dav

Gadget Question

2002-08-12 Thread Brad Figler
How do I handle this scenario: I have two gadgets on the same form. I want to send key pressed events to the gadget that was last entered (sort of like the last gadget to receive focus). Is it possible to track this, or do I have to manually keep track of every last gadget that had a pen down e

Re: Code Question

2002-08-12 Thread Mark Smith
"Markus Dresch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >char **abcdef; >abcdef = MemPtrNew(2); This allocates room for 2 bytes, not 2 pointers. It should be: abcdef = (char**)MemPtrNew(2 * sizeof(char*)); >abcdef[0] = MemPtrNew(4); >abcdef[0] = "abc"; This should use StrCopy(), not assignment. It's clo

question about ctlRepeatEvent

2002-08-12 Thread Christian Eyrich
Hi there, the UI of my app uses two repeating buttons. If the user klicks it, ctlEnterEvent and ctlRepeatEvent are sent out. About what happens if he holds the pen down the documentation says "When CtlHandleEvent receives a ctlRepeatEvent in a repeating button, it sends another ctlRepeatEvent if

Re: Code Question

2002-08-12 Thread Dale Walker
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Markus Dresch wrote: > many of the posted answers may have been a bit confusing. > > Char abcdef[2][4] = {"abc", "def"}; //this may be easier understandable for > you > or > char **abcdef; > abcdef = MemPtrNew(2); Oops - better make that abcdef = MemPtrNew(2 * sizeof(char

Re: About Games

2002-08-12 Thread tilo . christ
Hi! > I need to develop Games on Palm. I am new to games development . Let me educate in >this area like what are things should be follows. Is there any specific platform to >develop grames on Plam? You might want to look at http://www.tilo-christ.de/razor for my C++ gaming engine Razor!. See m

Re: RTTI and CDK ( typeid() ) ?

2002-08-12 Thread Ben Combee
In article <93499@palm-dev-forum>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > > Metrowerks compiler seems to support RTTI on PalmOS (Targeting PalmOS > doc). However I do not succeed in compiling the typeid function: There > is an error, which says: > > Error: undefined identifier ::std::typeinfo > > ( typein

Re: Sockets

2002-08-12 Thread Ben Combee
In article <93521@palm-dev-forum>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > As expected the above 3 lines of code compile, but when i use "Make" it > gives this error: > > Link Error: tcp.c: 'errno' referanced from 'con' is undefined. > > I am sure the error is generated at s=socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0);

Re: Linkage error for Template Functions

2002-08-12 Thread Ben Combee
In article <93508@palm-dev-forum>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > > Hi Folks, > I wanted to know if code warrior supports Template implementation. > I have a function which is declared as a template. This template accepts different >arguments from different classes and accordingly processes the fun

Re: linking to vsprintf

2002-08-12 Thread Ben Combee
In article <93479@palm-dev-forum>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > > I'm including stdarg.h to compile vsprintf and some of the related functions > into my Palm app -- to which library do I link? I'm getting a "reference > undefined" linking error. > > In general, is there a simple way to determing

Re: Need palm developer to quickly write small app for Stanford University

2002-08-12 Thread Pierre Roberge
Hi, I could be interested, I am available right now. I program in C language. I don't have any experience writing conduits allowing Palms to exchange information with PCs. I have experience in Human Factors Engineering so the products I design are easy to use. You can take a look at a Palm app

Re: Serial line manipulation

2002-08-12 Thread Jeremy Dewey
Thanks, that was very helpful! I'm looking at Sparkler now. Jeremy At 8/12/2002 08:25 AM, you wrote: >Depends on the unit. Some have DTR (DSR would come from the connected >device) hardwired to 3.3v. Others you have to access the UART directly to >control some of the control lines. I don't kn

Sockets

2002-08-12 Thread Irfan Mumtaz Sheikh
hi, Please help in this... void con(){ s=socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0); if(s<0) FrmAlert (BindFailedAlert); . . . . } As expected the above 3 lines of code compile, but when i use "Make" it gives this error: Link Error: tcp.c: 'errno' referanced from 'con' is undefined. I am sure the error i

Re: Serial line manipulation

2002-08-12 Thread Dave Lippincott
Depends on the unit. Some have DTR (DSR would come from the connected device) hardwired to 3.3v. Others you have to access the UART directly to control some of the control lines. I don't know what is involved on the newer 16 pin units. If what you want to do is not outlined in the SDK referenc

Re: Serial line manipulation

2002-08-12 Thread Jeremy Dewey
By "first three" I meant the first three that I mentioned: CTS RTS and DSR. Thanks Jeremy At 8/12/2002 06:15 AM, you wrote: >Well the first pin is ground, so there is a 0% chance of controlling it. >The next two belong to the USB port. What use is there to controlling these >two pins that you c

Need palm developer to quickly write small app for Stanford University

2002-08-12 Thread Rob Tow
I am working with the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab (see: ). We are looking for a developer who can very quickly write a small Palm app for logging sleep patterns. We have funding that runs out this month - so it has to be done quickly! If you are an

Re: RTTI and CDK ( typeid() ) ?

2002-08-12 Thread Werner Poschenrieder
I mean SDK of course, sorry -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Serial line manipulation

2002-08-12 Thread Dave Lippincott
Well the first pin is ground, so there is a 0% chance of controlling it. The next two belong to the USB port. What use is there to controlling these two pins that you can't do with the 232 control lines? - Original Message - From: "Jeremy Dewey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Fo

Using Resource database for Fonts

2002-08-12 Thread Prasad Brid
Hi Has anyone used the resource database for storing the fonts and using the same to display in text box. I am facing the problem for fonts whose size is > 64k, so I am trying to find some work around. Please guide me on the problem of font size > 64 (Chinese, Japanese etc) Thanks -- For inf

Linkage error for Template Functions

2002-08-12 Thread Amit Namjoshi
Hi Folks, I wanted to know if code warrior supports Template implementation. I have a function which is declared as a template. This template accepts different arguments from different classes and accordingly processes the function. But the funny thing is that although the code compiles during l

Re: linking to vsprintf

2002-08-12 Thread Dave Lippincott
Read chapter 15 in the Palm OS Programmer's Companion. - Original Message - From: "Richard Coutts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 9:23 PM Subject: linking to vsprintf > I'm including stdarg.h to compile vsprintf and some

Urgent Help ( Palm Database )

2002-08-12 Thread D Johan
Hello I have my database is at SQLServer and Desktop version is i made in Power Builder and Palm application i am tring to made with Mobile Builder or with code warrier or PDAToolKit . So tell me how I can convert my data to palm . >From SQLServer I can convert my file to .cvs form but for .pdb

Re: Code Question

2002-08-12 Thread Markus Dresch
many of the posted answers may have been a bit confusing. static Char **gStringsPtrArray = NULL; is a "pointer to a pointer to a char". that's right. as you never did c or c++ you dont know what a pointer is. that's why you maybe should get a book or surf the internet for beginner lessons in c -

Re: About Games

2002-08-12 Thread Ram Prasad
>I need to develop Games on Palm. I am new to games development . Let me >educate in this area like what are things should be follows. Is there any >specific platform to develop grames on Plam? Dear SuryaNarayanan, No specific platform, (Metrowerks Code Warrior would be better ). Go

RTTI and CDK ( typeid() ) ?

2002-08-12 Thread Werner Poschenrieder
Metrowerks compiler seems to support RTTI on PalmOS (Targeting PalmOS doc). However I do not succeed in compiling the typeid function: There is an error, which says: Error: undefined identifier ::std::typeinfo ( typeinfo is the return value of typeid ). RTTI is enabled within the compiler optio

About Games

2002-08-12 Thread Suryanarayana Murthy Velamuri
Hi All, I need to develop Games on Palm. I am new to games development . Let me educate in this area like what are things should be follows. Is there any specific platform to develop grames on Plam? Looking forward Thanks & Regards Surya. -- For information on using the Palm Developer For

app preferences - please help - only 4 bytes stored

2002-08-12 Thread Werner Poschenrieder
PalmOS 3.3 Hi everyone, please help me understand why I can only store 4 bytes in the app preferences. My preference _pPrefs is a pointer to a structure of type //=== typedef struct { UInt32 dwRecordId; Char tcLandCode; } AppPreferenceType; //

Re: SPT 1500 with GCC?

2002-08-12 Thread O.Lancelot
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:30:58 -0400 (EDT), Jason Keck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Has anyone had any luck programming for the SPT 1500 (Symbol's Palm III >with a barcode scanner) using GCC? I've heard rumors that a >(non-Symbol) GCC verion of the SDK is available, but i've been unable to >find anyt