Re: Text Field

Is there anyway to have an editable right justified text field? sure, just define the FIELD resource as RIGHTALIGN Markus Dresch (www.palmside.com) -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Using another app's resources

Steve Mann wrote: I've been doing essentially the same thing for months on the VisorPhone, and now the Treo, and it works fine. The only difference is that I only set the acknowledge field to true if it's my message. Otherwise I leave it alone (i.e., don't set it to false). Perhaps the

Graphical Buttons disappear when pressed ... ?

Hi Palm-Coders, I have some graphical buttons in a frame. The resource file for my project (PalmOS 3.5 - only free dev tools) contains lines like this: BITMAP ID Bitmap_Tray tray.bmp BITMAP ID Bitmap_Tray_Invers tray_x.bmp [...] BUTTON Del ID Today_Cmd_Del AT (65 143 15 15) USABLE

Re: Text Field

At 08:57 PM 9/18/2002 -0700, you wrote: Is there anyway to have an editable right justified text field? I notice that this behaviour is in the expense application, but, there is no source for that app with the SDK. Anyone know how to do it (aside from the obvious =) ). There is a rightalign

Urgent: HotSync and Samba connection to UNIX machine

Hi, Is it possible to have the HotSync Manager running on a Windows machine and sending and retrieving files via a Samba connection to and from a UNIX machine during synchronisation? Can this kind of network drive be treated as any other drive? The HotSync manager would only be installed on

Re: Graphical Buttons disappear when pressed ... ?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The button is displayed correctly in the form. But if I press the button, it disappears! Normally, I would expect that the invers bitmap file (tray_x.bmp) will be displayed - but there is nothing. Maybe your event handler returns true where it

Re: Graphical Buttons disappear when pressed ... ?

What is wrong with this definition? Has anyone of you an idea or a working example? What version of PilRC are you using ? Use 2.9 or 2.9p10 /Viktor Mårtensson -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: security for pdbs on device (except urgent reply)

Except using other security mechanisms can i set some attributes in my pdbs records so that they cud be prevented from downloads by some other application and viewed. Is there any idea about this ? Please help me regarding that. do custom encryption of your databases. problem solved.

Re: security for pdbs on device (except urgent reply)

thanks a lot.. may i know just one more information , like what is the best custom way to provide custom encryption to my pdbs. any link or some info would be of great help. Regards, RS --- Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except using other security mechanisms can i set some

Re: Direct Screen Access and multisegments

May be I didn't catch something but pointer to address 0x1ffa seems to me bit strange, because I can't imagine m505 with more then 1GB(yes one gigabyte) of RAM. kcorey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:95906@palm-dev-forum... Hi All, I'm looking for some advice here. My app is

Re: FntSetFont failing

Subject: FntSetFont failing From: Martin Elzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:42:26 +0200 A while back I think I may have asked questions in this forum about if anyone had seen FntSetFont not work. SNIP I've always believed it was broken with some early OS3.x releases. Don't

Re: FntSetFont failing

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:30:24AM -0500, Ben Combee wrote: At 01:42 PM 9/18/2002 +0200, you wrote: if you have a CodeWarrior project in which you enable the setting to force enums to be ints, then for example, the boldFont enum becomes a 16 bit wide int [...] Yes, the Palm OS API headers

Re: Text Field

On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 02:43:04AM -0500, Ben Combee wrote: There is a rightalign property that a field can have. It doesn't work very well. A few apps use it for small numeric fields, [...] Constructor for Palm OS doesn't let you set this bit, but the original apps for Palm OS had

Re: Does M68k supports floating point computing?

Since this is a Palm forum, I'm assuming you mean 'does the Palm support floats' Yes, and doubles too. - Original Message - From: Xue Qu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:56 PM Subject: Does M68k

Re: security for pdbs on device (except urgent reply)

thanks a lot.. may i know just one more information , like what is the best custom way to provide custom encryption to my pdbs. any link or some info would be of great help. you could just XOR your data with 0xaa or so :) that'll mess it up :) just dont publish your technique, and, i doubt

RE: Does M68k supports floating point computing?

I think you will find that the m68K inside palm units do not support floating point math. All floating point math is done using software emulation And therefore is slow. Far better to use fixed point math and binary scaling if you want any speed (although I suspect that this is a rare art

RE: Does M68k supports floating point computing?

On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you will find that the m68K inside palm units do not support floating point math. All floating point math is done using software emulation And therefore is slow. Far better to use fixed point math and binary scaling if you want any

RE: Does M68k supports floating point computing?

Apologies to game developers, I forgot you lot are masters of speed. -Original Message- From: Brian Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 September 2002 14:24 To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: RE: Does M68k supports floating point computing? On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Does M68k supports floating point computing?

I think you will find that the m68K inside palm units do not support floating point math. All floating point math is done using software emulation And therefore is slow. Far better to use fixed point math and binary scaling if you want any speed (although I suspect that this is a

Exchange manager

Hi. Somebody now how must initialize(reinitialize) exchange manager? Example, if exchange manager already initialized, after that some used lib was unloaded. Exchange manager think that he have lib but lib unloaded. Exchange manager is needed reinitialize. What way to do it? ExgInit? Something

Re: Data base

hello narender i think that till now there no option to create database and table in palm (according to my knowledge) palm support fat files type database only A datebase will treat as table with structure ok raja --- narender reddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello whether we can create a

Re: Direct Screen Access and multisegments

Precisely. I know that 0x1ffa is likely not going to be a valid address, but why is that being returned? It could be that my stack space has been exhausted (I don't think so, but maybe). It could be that there's a bug with POSE (again, I don't think so). It's far more likely that I'm

Re: Direct Screen Access and multisegments

I know that 0x1ffa is likely not going to be a valid address, but why is that being returned? It could be that my stack space has been exhausted (I don't think so, but maybe). It could be that there's a bug with POSE (again, I don't think so). 0x1ffa is a valid address - on

Re: Urgent: HotSync and Samba connection to UNIX machine

Is it possible to have the HotSync Manager running on a Windows machine and sending and retrieving files via a Samba connection to and from a UNIX machine during synchronisation? Can this kind of network drive be treated as any other drive? The HotSync manager would only be installed on the

RE: security for pdbs on device (except urgent reply)

Try SecureData. It encrypts all databases. http://www.kastenchase.com/products/smc.asp -Original Message- From: Rahul Shukla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: September 19, 2002 6:06 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: security for pdbs on device (except urgent reply) Hello, Except

RE: Custom Fonts

There is a freeware tool out there called xFont that will automate the process of creating fonts in the PilRC format. search google for xFont and Palm and I bet you find it easily. -Ezekiel -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

AW: Graphical Buttons disappear when pressed ... ?

I had the same problem. After looking at the Calc resources I found the problem: Set the bit depth of the images (if suing RSRCEdit) to at least 2 bit. This should work. If not try setting the transparency colour to 0. As I do not use PilRC, I cannot tell you how to do this, but I hope this helps

CW Question

This is a simple question, probably. At some point I added the 'switch between header and source' button to my toolbar. At the end (the right) of the toolbar. I accidently deleted it off my toolbar. When I add it back it appears at the beginning (the left). I have tried to move it but can't. I

Re: Does PalmOS support Unicode?

hi everyone, i am working on a project that requires me to display Chinese and Japanese character on my palm, what can i do? by the way, does palmos surport Unicode? No, there is no Unicode support in current versions of Palm OS. Palm OS doesn't currently support Unicode as the device's

Re: remember database

At 02:52 PM 9/15/2002 +0200, you wrote: Does it really forbid two dbs with the same name or does it only forbid two dbs with the same name AND the same creator_id ? Names must be unique on the whole device, not just per creator ID. This is why programming guidelines suggest you append your

Re: FntSetFont failing

At 02:56 PM 9/19/2002 +0200, you wrote: Yes, the Palm OS API headers rely on the enum is always int setting to be off. [...] For this reason, when I declare my own enums on Palm OS, I like to just typedef the appropriate ranged type to the enum type, and leave all my enums as a

Re: CW Question

At 02:26 PM 9/19/2002 -0400, you wrote: This is a simple question, probably. At some point I added the 'switch between header and source' button to my toolbar. At the end (the right) of the toolbar. I accidently deleted it off my toolbar. When I add it back it appears at the beginning (the

Re: CW Question

Thank Ben but that I want I have been trying to do. But when I drop it at the end or between the last 2, the icon just appears at the beginning. I tried to do a toolbar reset and try it again but the same thing happens... Thanks Ralph -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or

Re: CW Question

At 02:52 PM 9/19/2002 -0400, you wrote: Thank Ben but that I want I have been trying to do. But when I drop it at the end or between the last 2, the icon just appears at the beginning. I tried to do a toolbar reset and try it again but the same thing happens... Which toolbar are you trying to

Showing and Hiding listbox

FrmHideObject and FrmShowObject do not seem to work correctly althought I am sure I am doing something wrong... This is my code... FrmShowObject(m_pForm,FrmGetObjectIndex (m_pForm, m_objectID)); Thanks Ralph -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

How to streamline debugging w/ PRC-Tools?

Hi! I have recently started to work more intensively with PRC-Tools. I miss one capability of CW, namely the ability to automatically transfer a PRC-file to the POSE emulator before debugging begins. Essentially, with CW, I pushed one button, the PRC goes to POSE, the software is started on

Re: CW 8.2 crashes very often on Mac OS X 10.2

Is there anything that could be done to prevent CW8.2 from crashing all the time under OS X 10.2? First, update to CW Palm OS V8.3. It won't update the IDE, but it will update some other components and fix a few key bugs. This is getting on my nerves. I'm in the middle of writing a lot

Re: CW 8.2 crashes very often on Mac OS X 10.2

Upgraded to 8.3 but it didn't help. Right now, I clicked a window titlebar and booom. IDE crashed. This is not 100% reproducible, it just happens randomly. Sometimes the IDE will crash after debugging, sometimes it'll crash during editing sessions (I tend to open/close windows pretty fast

Re: How to streamline debugging w/ PRC-Tools?

On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 22:55, Tilo Christ wrote: I have recently started to work more intensively with PRC-Tools. I miss one capability of CW, namely the ability to automatically transfer a PRC-file to the POSE emulator before debugging begins. Essentially, with CW, I pushed one button,

Conversion utility to 4 bit BMP?

Hi All I have recently created a Palm game that runs great on color devices (eg m130) but runs REALLY slow on a B/W device with an identical processor(eg m125). The problem is that I am using the same image format for both color (8 bit drawing mode) and grayscale (4 bit drawing mode), ie 8 bit

shared library question

HI, I have replaced a system library with my custom library. Now I want to call a function from the system library. How do I do that? If I call the original function it calls the version in my library. thanks -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please

Re: Conversion utility to 4 bit BMP?

Constructor does this. I'm not sure how well. You just add a new bitmap to your bitmap family. Set the depth. Open the 8-bit image. Select All. Copy. Open the 4-bit image. Paste. But I'm guessing you don't use Constructor... Matt - Original Message - From: Palm Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Conversion utility to 4 bit BMP?

This is interesting - I didn't realize Constructor did this. I do run CW so I do HAVE Constructor but I don't actually use it for my bitmaps. I found it is much easier just to use the PilRC plugin for CW. It isn't clear to me how I open an existing image in Constructor. When I click on

Re: Conversion utility to 4 bit BMP?

At 11:01 AM 9/20/2002 +1200, you wrote: Constructor does this. I'm not sure how well. You just add a new bitmap to your bitmap family. Set the depth. Open the 8-bit image. Select All. Copy. Open the 4-bit image. Paste. But I'm guessing you don't use Constructor... Constructor does a horrible

Re: security for pdbs on device (except urgent reply)

RC4 is pretty good too. This function will do it for you: void RC4(Char* sIn, UInt32 iInLen, Char* sKey, UInt32 iKeyLen) { UInt8* inp = (UInt8*)sIn; UInt8* key = (UInt8*)sKey; UInt8 s[256]; UInt8 k[256]; UInt32 i; UInt32 j; UInt8 temp; UInt32 t; UInt32 x; for (i = 0; i 256; i++) {

Re: CW 8.2 crashes very often on Mac OS X 10.2

About this, I heard that Macs will NOT be supported in CW/Palm 9. Is this true? Yes and no. The initial release of V9 will be Win32 only. We're doing a lot of ambitious stuff, and supporting the Macintosh with this would push our release date out several months from November to late January

Re: CW 8.2 crashes very often on Mac OS X 10.2

At 06:11 PM 9/19/2002 -0600, you wrote: About this, I heard that Macs will NOT be supported in CW/Palm 9. Is this true? Yes and no. The initial release of V9 will be Win32 only. We're doing a lot of ambitious stuff, and supporting the Macintosh with this would push our release date out

PalmPix

Hello everybody Do you know where to find information about the PalmPixLib.prc to develop applications that can use the PalmPix to take pictures within a custom application? Any help will be appreciated. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

possible to beam two DB's with the same creator ID

I have a project that consists of two databases: 1 'appl' DB, and 1 'libr' DB. They share the same creator ID. Both the Delete and Beam features of the Application Launcher displays the two databases as one entry. Delete deletes both databases. But, Beam only beams one of the databases,

Simulator Bad window crash when launched by installer.

I'm getting a Bad Window error in the Simulator when closing a modal form which is a splash screen, i.e. it is displayed before any main forms are initialised. The error only occurs when the app is launched directly by an installer on the Palm (Combiner if it makes a difference). In other words,

Palm SDK 5 -- newbie

Hi all, yesterday, i downloaded PalmOS SDK5 from palmsource.com, but after i decompressed its zip packet, i can not find any setup executable, i have used WinCE SDK and i just ran its setup program and everything is ok. What can i do with those plugins, includes and tools? how to install them in

Re: Does PalmOS support Unicode?

Thank you Ken, i think maybe i didnt express my meanings accurately, what i want is to display Chinese OR Japanese on my program, i dont need to display them at the same time. Xue Ken Krugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:95992@palm-dev-forum... hi everyone, i am working on a

Discontinuation of CW Mac support (was CW 8.2 crashes very often...)

This link is dead: http://www.metrowerks.com/mw/About/Contact.htm To make your thoughts about this matter known use this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is pretty plain that if the deadline for release would have to be pushed if Mac tools were to be included, there weren't enough

Re: Conversion utility to 4 bit BMP?

Am Fre, 2002-09-20 um 00.40 schrieb Palm Guy: Hi, stuff I found on the web. There has to be a simple solution to this - Palm game authors must use this all the time. So, who can recommend a good, simple, hopefully inexpensive program/utility that will let me open my 8 bit color image,

Re: Conversion utility to 4 bit BMP?

I also noticed that PilRC allows you to specify a transparent color for 8 bit color images and for bitmap families. It appears that this is not useful for 4 bit mode. Is it really the case that I must go back to using a separate mask image to achieve image transparency in 4 bit drawing

Re: Simulator Bad window crash when launched by installer.

I'm getting a Bad Window error in the Simulator when closing a modal form which is a splash screen I've encountered the same thing in the past in POSE, not the Simulator. I don't remember the reasons (that was a while ago), but the following sequence of events (some details have been omitted)