Stepping into OS source code, and Palm OS 3.5 bug

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Whiteman
never get a ctlSelectedEvent. It looks like 3.5 is ignoring the fact that the gadget is set to unusable. For now I've replaced the gadget code with something clunkier. Is this a known issue with Palm OS 3.5? -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums,

Palm OS 3.5 list arrows

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Whiteman
n the drawing. Is there a fix for this issue? -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/

RE: Mutually-exclusive checkbox

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Whiteman
You can do this by creating a number of checkboxes on the form and then assigning a Group ID to them. Checkboxes with the same group ID are treated as a set of radio buttons. (Unfortunately the Palm OS draws them the same whether they're grouped or not, so for the sake of the user you may want to d

RE: Programmatically perform a HotSync

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Whiteman
would simulate the user pressing the cradle button, which is generally configured to do a local hotsync (though the user can change this behavior). -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- > From: Eric Sun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 9:20 AM > To: Pal

RE: multi table relational databases

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Whiteman
Palm databases for each table in the logical database. That way each table can have its own simple sort routine. Is there any particular reason why you don't want to create multiple Palm databases? -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- > From: K. Chugh [mailto:[EMAIL P

RE: Stepping into OS source code, and Palm OS 3.5 bug

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Whiteman
set up the CodeWarrior debugger to step into OS functions with full C source code support? -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message----- > From: Bob Whiteman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 11:50 AM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: Stepping into OS source

RE: multi table relational databases

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Whiteman
e Palm database, however, you only have one version for all your database tables. -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- > From: K. Chugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 11:26 AM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: Re: multi table relation

RE: Message rejected

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Whiteman
t would be simpler to just use multiple Palm databases, though. -Bob Whiteman -Original Message- From: Dave Lippincott To: Palm Developer Forum Sent: 7/27/2000 12:34 PM Subject: Re: multi table relational databases What does having 14 Tables/DBs have to do with the Palm only having 1

RE: "no-cache" browser

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Whiteman
Browse-it, the original HTML and images aren't stored; a much smaller encoded version of the page is stored. If one's device is really strapped for memory the cache size can be set to 0 bytes. Pages won't be stored on the device. -Bob Whiteman > -Original Messag

RE: Symbol 1500

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Whiteman
ok is available you can find out the exact format of the data in the Address Book database. -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- > From: Thusitha Batuwitage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 6:58 AM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: Symbol

RE: How to intercept Graffiti keyboard command?

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Whiteman
I beleve that when the user hits the silkscreened 123 button you'll see a keyDownEvent with a character of vchrKeyboardNumeric. -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- > From: Fitzsimons, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 4:28 PM > To: Pal

RE: How to intercept Graffiti keyboard command?

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Whiteman
bove SysHandleEvent. -Bob Whiteman -Original Message- From: Fitzsimons, Jeff To: Palm Developer Forum Sent: 8/2/2000 11:05 AM Subject: RE: How to intercept Graffiti keyboard command? Unfortunately, my keyDownEvent handler doesn't even trigger a breakpoint

Creating fonts

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Whiteman
cific information. So how does one create a Palm font? -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/

Clipper mini-font

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Whiteman
The clipper appliation that's in the ROM for Palm VII devices apparently has a special mini font used for some data displayed by .pqa files. Is this a built-in font on the Palm VII? If so, is it available on other ROMs as well? -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the A

Converting Palm fonts to X .pcf fonts (was RE: Creating fonts)

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Whiteman
generated by FontEdit, into .pcf format? Thanks, -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- > From: Mostapha BOUTERFASS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 11:45 AM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: Re: Creating fonts > > > per

RE: Clipper mini-font

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Whiteman
de 1 resource. One occurs near "OpenFont" and the other occurs near "CloseFont". Now my problem is that I don't know how to properly grab the structure out of clipper. Does anyone have any hints on how to grab this font? Thanks, -Bob Whiteman > -Original

RE: Clipper mini-font

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Whiteman
interested in. -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- > From: Ben Combee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 3:27 PM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: Re: Clipper mini-font > > > "Bob Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: Clipper mini-font

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Whiteman
s and such resources somewhere on the net. I'm open to suggestions. :) -Bob Whiteman -Original Message- From: Scott Johnson (Bellevue) To: Palm Developer Forum Sent: 8/3/2000 4:36 PM Subject: RE: Clipper mini-font > From: Bob Whiteman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Can't use Palm device after emulator?

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Whiteman
is the problem, the solutions are the same, or you can reconfigure the emulator to use a port which doesn't conflict with the cradle. Good luck! -Bob Whiteman -Original Message- From: DIAMOND JEFF To: Palm Developer Forum Sent: 8/3/2000 10:46 PM Subject: Can't use P

RE: Progress bar

2008-05-28 Thread Bob Whiteman
Why not simply use the Progress Manager? PalmOS has a built in progress bar that's documented in the reference. Search for "Progress Manager", or look in the header files for functions beginning with "Prg". -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- >

RE: Does app get notified when Palm switches "off"

2008-05-28 Thread Bob Whiteman
You might need to call KeySetMask() first. This function filters out certain keyDownEvents. After that, you can have your application watch for vchrAutoOff, vchrPowerOff and/or hardPowerChr. Each of these keys is described in the OS 3.5 SDK in Chars.h -Bob Whiteman > -Origi

RE: URGENT !!!! Inet with AlmSetProcAlarm

2008-05-28 Thread Bob Whiteman
, and that far outweighed the usefulness of notification...but but maybe that's because I had a poor battery in my Minstrel. -Bob Whiteman -Original Message- From: Fitzpatrick, Joe To: Palm Developer Forum Sent: 8/22/2000 10:58 PM Subject: RE: URGENT Inet with AlmS

RE: Get visual artifacts using WinCopyRectangle() to drag icons

2008-05-28 Thread Bob Whiteman
re guessing that they are inside but the Palm OS treats them as if they are outside. -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/

RE: Timed Splash Screen

2008-05-28 Thread Bob Whiteman
on to the next form. -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- > From: Timothy Astle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 11:37 AM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: Re: Timed Splash Screen > > > > Why not just load the next form using

RE: URGENT !!!! Inet with AlmSetProcAlarm

2008-05-28 Thread Bob Whiteman
, the handoffs couldn't happen fast enough and so the connection couldn't be maintained. If their new 128kbaud network lacks this limitation and has good coverage it will make all other connections obsolete, IMO. -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- > From: Fitzpatric

Free Handle

2008-05-28 Thread Bob Whiteman
g pilot-xfer -f on each of the files, not pilot-xfer -b). Then hard-reset the device to clear all memory and restore all the backed up databases. Does anyone know of an easier way of nixing a corrupt database? -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to

Bitmap family

2008-05-28 Thread Bob Whiteman
e two images on this help page are broken with the messages: The picture "Bitmapfam.bmp" is missing! and The picture "Bitmapfam2.bmp" is missing! So how is this supposed to work? -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/

RE: Bitmap family

2008-05-28 Thread Bob Whiteman
iendly. Me too...either that or a working and complete help file. -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/

PalmOS 3.5 8-bit Colour Palette

2008-05-28 Thread Bob Whiteman
The PalmOS Programmer's Companion indicates that the named HTML colour gray (0x808080) is a member of the PalmOS palette. I checked on a device, and the emulator, and this colour is not present. However, the Programmer's Companion writes that only the first 231 entries in the palette and the last

OS Compression? (was: RE: m100 EFIGS oddness)

2008-05-28 Thread Bob Whiteman
compression? (I'd like to decide which compression will be better for the images in my resources, but I'd rather not have to make that decision by trying it out on every image. Knowing the compression algorithm would help.) Thanks in advance, -Bob Whiteman > -Original Messag

RE: 802.11b on tungsten?

2003-02-07 Thread Bob Whiteman
> not an option at the moment. The APIs for Bluetooth development on Palm OS are available as part of the Palm OS SDK, and they do not need to be licensed from Motorola. See http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/bluetooth/ for the latest news on the Palm OS Bluetooth SDK. -Bob Whiteman ===

RE: quick lists question

2003-01-22 Thread Bob Whiteman
David, I think that this Palm OS Knowledge Base article will answer your question: http://kb.palmsource.com/cgi-bin/palmsource.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=293 -Bob Whiteman = Developer Technical Services Engineer - Comms PalmSource, Inc

RE: DmAttachRecord, DmResizeRecord problems

2003-01-16 Thread Bob Whiteman
database memory, ensuring that it can safely be attached to your database. It won't be freed when your application exits. -Bob Whiteman = Developer Technical Services Engineer - Comms PalmSource, Inc. = -Original Message- From: Bill He

RE: previously compilable code now chokes CW

2003-01-14 Thread Bob Whiteman
in some >file that's implicitly or explicitly included in your source file. Looking through >the preprocessed source file may make it obvious. -Bob Whiteman = Developer Technical Services Engineer - Comms PalmSource, Inc. = -Ori

NetLib and EvtResetAutoOffTimer() (was Re: Procedure alarms)

2002-04-09 Thread Bob Whiteman
Timer() and EvtSetAutoOffTimer(). I don't see it appearing in any of the functions that my code calls. The major suspect is NetLib, since Palm doesn't release the source code for it. Do any of the functions in NetLib call EvtResetAutoOffTimer()? Thanks, -Bob Whiteman "Da

Re: Procedure alarms

2002-04-05 Thread Bob Whiteman
n because I don't know whether the deletion attempt will simply fail with an error message...that may be sufficient for this app. (I have a hard deadline looming, so the less new code the better.) Thanks again Danny, -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Procedure alarms

2002-04-05 Thread Bob Whiteman
larm(), what happens when the user deletes my application? Does the delete fail with a generic error message? Or does the delete succeed, but the next time the alarm is triggered the device crashes? Or something else? -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or t

Re: Iterating through DB

2002-04-05 Thread Bob Whiteman
ryRecord( gSRWorkDB, iRec ); if ( recordH ) { ... } } -Bob Whiteman "Edward P. Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:82978@palm-dev-forum... > > I am iterating through a database and getting the number of records that match the search criteria as

Quick off & on

2002-04-05 Thread Bob Whiteman
t it can take 6-10 seconds to wake up again, which is too long for my application. Can anyone suggest a reliable way to put the device to sleep and wake it up quickly? Thanks, -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, p

Leftovers from deleting applications

2002-04-02 Thread Bob Whiteman
automatically? Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Scrolling form

2002-03-15 Thread Bob Whiteman
angle when drawing the text of the agreement so it doesn't overwrite the title bar. Bob Whiteman Senior Software Engineer Pico Communications "Roar Lauritzsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:79994@palm-dev-forum... > > Consider a license agreement (thi

Re: Getting rid of a database after you've screwed it up ;-)

2002-03-12 Thread Bob Whiteman
s and repair the damage, but the effort probably isn't worth it. Better to spend your time fixing the bug that caused this situation. Bob Whiteman Senior Software Engineer Pico Communications -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Thousands separator

2002-03-11 Thread Bob Whiteman
that. If you > can't find anything, email me privately--I have some around here > somewhere I can send you. I appreciate the offer. I've already rolled my own crude code that'll fit my needs for now. Bob Whiteman Senior Software Engineer Pico Communications -- For informa

Thousands separator

2002-03-11 Thread Bob Whiteman
hanges the localization of a number that already has thousands separators. I know I can roll my own, but I'm surprised this isn't built in somewhere. Did I miss something? Bob Whiteman Senior Software Engineer Pico Communications -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to uns

Re: Custom gesture

2002-03-01 Thread Bob Whiteman
You have an excellent point. The hack mechanism already has a way of adding a configuration panel to a hack, so I could simply provide a dialog which lets the user choose what the stroke is like. Thanks for the advice. Bob Whiteman Senior Software Engineer Pico Communications "Rich

Re: Custom gesture

2002-02-26 Thread Bob Whiteman
l source code, thanks! It takes a dedicated developer to respond to newsgroup posts at 5 AM. :) Bob Whiteman Senior Software Engineer Pico Communications -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Re: Custom gesture

2002-02-26 Thread Bob Whiteman
#x27;re more familiar with the existing hacks that use gestures...do you have any suggestions for an unused gesture? I was planning on using a stroke from Find to Calc. Thanks, Bob Whiteman Senior Software Engineer Pico Communications -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to u

Custom gesture

2002-02-25 Thread Bob Whiteman
HackMaster. I searched eScribe and Google but didn't find anything. Which function do I want to hook? Should I hook SysHandleEvent() and watch for PenDown, PenMove and PenUp events? I'd rather not hook a function that's called so frequently... would hooking EvtProcessSoftKeyStro

Re: Risky tSTR

2002-02-12 Thread Bob Whiteman
"Marco Pantaleoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:76354@palm-dev-forum... > > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:40:29AM -0800, Bob Whiteman wrote: > > > > char *GetResourceString( UInt16 id ) { > > static char string[256]; > ... > > if (

Re: Risky tSTR

2002-02-04 Thread Bob Whiteman
someone calls GetResourceString(). Any string longer than 255 characters is truncated. No cleanup call is needed. I just threw this function together, so I don't guarantee that it's bug-free. :) Bob Whiteman Senior Software Engineer Pico Communications "Max Bian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: Practical questions

2002-01-31 Thread Bob Whiteman
other advantage of using serial cables is that I can use the pilot-xfer program to manually install and retrieve databases and programs without performing a full HotSync. Bob Whiteman Senior Software Engineer Pico Communications -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Re: Last cry for help

2002-01-29 Thread Bob Whiteman
palmos.com web site and I can't find it. I've even found dead links to knowledge base articles about it. Has Palm upgraded it to support new OS versions? Is there a version which supports removing a network service? Bob Whiteman Senior Software Engineer Pico Communications -- For infor

Re: Last cry for help

2002-01-28 Thread Bob Whiteman
eveloper support incident. Perhaps they can provide an updated version of the NetServiceAPI library. If you do join, please let me know what they say. Bob Whiteman Senior Software Engineer Pico Communications -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Re: Freeing Memory - Approach

2002-01-28 Thread Bob Whiteman
"Andy Yeong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:74842@palm-dev-forum... > Bob Whiteman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:74827@palm-dev-forum... > > It is my understanding that if you use MemHandleFree() with MemHandleNew() > > things go

Re: Freeing Memory - Approach

2002-01-28 Thread Bob Whiteman
associated handle has been unlocked because it may move in memory. Admittedly it's not very likely that the pointer will be moved if MemPtrFree() immediately follows MemPtrUnlock, but it's still possible. Bob Whiteman Senior Software Engineer Pico Communications "John Leung&quo

Re: Freeing Memory - Approach

2002-01-27 Thread Bob Whiteman
chunk of memory, plus it doesn't take up any dynamic heap space. The drawback is that I have to use DmWrite(), but there's reasonable ways to manage that. If it's too much of a burden I just allocate a pointer instead. Bob Whiteman Senior Software Engineer Pico Communication --

RE: NetServiceAPI library bug

2002-01-17 Thread Bob Whiteman
e LoadService(), SaveService() and FreeNetworkPrefs(). It's not an officially supported API but rather a workaround API since there's no officially supported way to create and modify network services. There's a few posts about this library in the palm-dev-forum. You can find them if you d

OS Compression? (was: RE: m100 EFIGS oddness)

2000-09-21 Thread Bob Whiteman
compression? (I'd like to decide which compression will be better for the images in my resources, but I'd rather not have to make that decision by trying it out on every image. Knowing the compression algorithm would help.) Thanks in advance, -Bob Whiteman > -Original Messag

PalmOS 3.5 8-bit Colour Palette

2000-09-12 Thread Bob Whiteman
The PalmOS Programmer's Companion indicates that the named HTML colour gray (0x808080) is a member of the PalmOS palette. I checked on a device, and the emulator, and this colour is not present. However, the Programmer's Companion writes that only the first 231 entries in the palette and the last

RE: Bitmap family

2000-08-23 Thread Bob Whiteman
iendly. Me too...either that or a working and complete help file. -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Bitmap family

2000-08-23 Thread Bob Whiteman
e two images on this help page are broken with the messages: The picture "Bitmapfam.bmp" is missing! and The picture "Bitmapfam2.bmp" is missing! So how is this supposed to work? -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Free Handle

2000-08-23 Thread Bob Whiteman
g pilot-xfer -f on each of the files, not pilot-xfer -b). Then hard-reset the device to clear all memory and restore all the backed up databases. Does anyone know of an easier way of nixing a corrupt database? -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to

RE: URGENT !!!! Inet with AlmSetProcAlarm

2000-08-23 Thread Bob Whiteman
, the handoffs couldn't happen fast enough and so the connection couldn't be maintained. If their new 128kbaud network lacks this limitation and has good coverage it will make all other connections obsolete, IMO. -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- > From: Fitzpatric

RE: Timed Splash Screen

2000-08-23 Thread Bob Whiteman
on to the next form. -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- > From: Timothy Astle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 11:37 AM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: Re: Timed Splash Screen > > > > Why not just load the next form

RE: Get visual artifacts using WinCopyRectangle() to drag icons

2000-08-23 Thread Bob Whiteman
re guessing that they are inside but the Palm OS treats them as if they are outside. -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

RE: URGENT !!!! Inet with AlmSetProcAlarm

2000-08-23 Thread Bob Whiteman
, and that far outweighed the usefulness of notification...but but maybe that's because I had a poor battery in my Minstrel. -Bob Whiteman -Original Message- From: Fitzpatrick, Joe To: Palm Developer Forum Sent: 8/22/2000 10:58 PM Subject: RE: URGENT Inet with AlmS

RE: Does app get notified when Palm switches "off"

2000-08-22 Thread Bob Whiteman
You might need to call KeySetMask() first. This function filters out certain keyDownEvents. After that, you can have your application watch for vchrAutoOff, vchrPowerOff and/or hardPowerChr. Each of these keys is described in the OS 3.5 SDK in Chars.h -Bob Whiteman > -Origi

RE: Progress bar

2000-08-21 Thread Bob Whiteman
Why not simply use the Progress Manager? PalmOS has a built in progress bar that's documented in the reference. Search for "Progress Manager", or look in the header files for functions beginning with "Prg". -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- >

RE: M100 ROM images / POSE version for them - when?

2000-08-15 Thread Bob Whiteman
That's great news! On the emulator forum you've mentioned some bug fixes and enhancements that won't be available until 3.0a7 is released. Is that what you'll be shipping? -Bob Whiteman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum Sen

RE: DmWriteCheck fails.

2000-08-14 Thread Bob Whiteman
You haven't shown what src, nilP and tmpare, but one thing I noticed is that your first three DmWrites use nilP for the 2nd argument but the fourth DmWrite uses tmp for the 2nd argument. What is tmp? -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- > From: Kshama Sathaye [mailto:[EMAI

RE: SysUIAppSwitch() & SysAppLaunch()

2000-08-11 Thread Bob Whiteman
Thanks for the clear explanation, David. I'm glad to know we're not leaking memory owned by the system...my understanding is that since the system never exits, the memory would be "permanently" leaked. -Bob > -Original Message- > From: David Fedor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sen

SysUIAppSwitch() & SysAppLaunch()

2000-08-10 Thread Bob Whiteman
n the app exits. Now, what should the callee do with this memory once it is done with it? MemPtrFree() seems to cause big problems. -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Pen Q out of sync

2000-08-09 Thread Bob Whiteman
is error, so I'm not sure what I'm looking for. I found several conditions in SysEvtMgr.c in the OS source code which would result in this error, but I don't pretend to understand what's going on there. Does anyone have any leads for me? Thanks in advance, -B

RE: Palm OS 3.5: FldNewField changes text on button

2000-08-08 Thread Bob Whiteman
he end user's point of view to just have an OS patch. Now, for my application, the most important issue is whether Palm can release a library quickly enough to make it into the first release. Do you know how long it would take to package up the OS 4.0 fixes? -Bob Whiteman > -O

RE: Palm OS 3.5: FldNewField changes text on button

2000-08-08 Thread Bob Whiteman
form elements I'm going to need at design time, and it's very wasteful of dynamic memory. Can you or anyone else on this list provide any more information? Specifically, are there any known workarounds? Which OS versions have this bug? Is this bug officially documented anywhere?

RE: Palm OS 3.5: FldNewField changes text on button

2000-08-08 Thread Bob Whiteman
> -Original Message- > From: Peter Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > This sound suspiciously like the adjust pointers bug I heard > about a while ago. When adding objects to a form, the > structure of the form in memory needs to be adjusted so that > pointers continue to point whe

RE: Rumors, disclosing, and platforms, part 1

2000-08-08 Thread Bob Whiteman
I agree with what you say about leaks, rumors and NDAs, David. It all sounds like intelligent business practices. I have a couple additional comments below. > -Original Message- > From: David Fedor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [...] > At 2:51 PM -0700 8/7/00, Bob Whiteman wr

Palm OS 3.5: FldNewField changes text on button

2000-08-08 Thread Bob Whiteman
2 patch. I found nothing describing this kind of issue in the six articles which contain "FldNewField" in the Knowledge Base. Does anyone have any ideas why this might be happening? Can anyone suggest any workarounds? Unfortunately I can't escape dynamic UI elements because of the nature

RE: Palm developer support email bouncing

2000-08-08 Thread Bob Whiteman
> From: Andrew Lathrop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [...] > The best bet seems to be to post to the groups. There are a > few Palm people > who troll through here doing there best to answer. They don;t eply to > individual emails, but who knows, others in the group may be > able to help. > Andre

Palm developer support email bouncing

2000-08-08 Thread Bob Whiteman
s there any other means by which I can contact Palm? Thanks in advance, -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

RE: New products from Palm, Inc.

2000-08-07 Thread Bob Whiteman
the ROM image, and they can require an NDA from developers before releasing even that much to a developer. In my experience, this is a standard practice in the software industry. -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

RE: New products from Palm, Inc.

2000-08-07 Thread Bob Whiteman
latforms before they are released. That way if there is some incompatibility in the new OSes I can find out what that is, fix it, and release a new version...or at the very least get my support story straight before I start losing customers. Palm has just done a great disservice to its developers.

RE: Can't use Palm device after emulator?

2000-08-04 Thread Bob Whiteman
is the problem, the solutions are the same, or you can reconfigure the emulator to use a port which doesn't conflict with the cradle. Good luck! -Bob Whiteman -Original Message- From: DIAMOND JEFF To: Palm Developer Forum Sent: 8/3/2000 10:46 PM Subject: Can't use P

RE: Clipper mini-font

2000-08-03 Thread Bob Whiteman
s and such resources somewhere on the net. I'm open to suggestions. :) -Bob Whiteman -Original Message- From: Scott Johnson (Bellevue) To: Palm Developer Forum Sent: 8/3/2000 4:36 PM Subject: RE: Clipper mini-font > From: Bob Whiteman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Clipper mini-font

2000-08-03 Thread Bob Whiteman
interested in. -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- > From: Ben Combee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 3:27 PM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: Re: Clipper mini-font > > > "Bob Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

RE: Clipper mini-font

2000-08-03 Thread Bob Whiteman
de 1 resource. One occurs near "OpenFont" and the other occurs near "CloseFont". Now my problem is that I don't know how to properly grab the structure out of clipper. Does anyone have any hints on how to grab this font? Thanks, -Bob Whiteman > -Original

Converting Palm fonts to X .pcf fonts (was RE: Creating fonts)

2000-08-03 Thread Bob Whiteman
generated by FontEdit, into .pcf format? Thanks, -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- > From: Mostapha BOUTERFASS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 11:45 AM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: Re: Creating fonts > > > per

Clipper mini-font

2000-08-03 Thread Bob Whiteman
The clipper appliation that's in the ROM for Palm VII devices apparently has a special mini font used for some data displayed by .pqa files. Is this a built-in font on the Palm VII? If so, is it available on other ROMs as well? -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the

Creating fonts

2000-08-03 Thread Bob Whiteman
more specific information. So how does one create a Palm font? -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

RE: How to intercept Graffiti keyboard command?

2000-08-02 Thread Bob Whiteman
bove SysHandleEvent. -Bob Whiteman -Original Message- From: Fitzsimons, Jeff To: Palm Developer Forum Sent: 8/2/2000 11:05 AM Subject: RE: How to intercept Graffiti keyboard command? Unfortunately, my keyDownEvent handler doesn't even trigger a breakpoint

RE: How to intercept Graffiti keyboard command?

2000-08-01 Thread Bob Whiteman
I beleve that when the user hits the silkscreened 123 button you'll see a keyDownEvent with a character of vchrKeyboardNumeric. -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- > From: Fitzsimons, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 4:28 PM > T

RE: Symbol 1500

2000-08-01 Thread Bob Whiteman
ok is available you can find out the exact format of the data in the Address Book database. -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- > From: Thusitha Batuwitage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 6:58 AM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: Symbol

RE: "no-cache" browser

2000-07-31 Thread Bob Whiteman
With Browse-it, the original HTML and images aren't stored; a much smaller encoded version of the page is stored. If one's device is really strapped for memory the cache size can be set to 0 bytes. Pages won't be stored on the device. -Bob Whiteman > -Original Messag

RE: Message rejected

2000-07-27 Thread Bob Whiteman
t would be simpler to just use multiple Palm databases, though. -Bob Whiteman -Original Message- From: Dave Lippincott To: Palm Developer Forum Sent: 7/27/2000 12:34 PM Subject: Re: multi table relational databases What does having 14 Tables/DBs have to do with the Palm only having 1

RE: multi table relational databases

2000-07-27 Thread Bob Whiteman
e Palm database, however, you only have one version for all your database tables. -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- > From: K. Chugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 11:26 AM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: Re: multi table relation

RE: Stepping into OS source code, and Palm OS 3.5 bug

2000-07-27 Thread Bob Whiteman
set up the CodeWarrior debugger to step into OS functions with full C source code support? -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message----- > From: Bob Whiteman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 11:50 AM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: Stepping into OS source

RE: multi table relational databases

2000-07-27 Thread Bob Whiteman
Palm databases for each table in the logical database. That way each table can have its own simple sort routine. Is there any particular reason why you don't want to create multiple Palm databases? -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- > From: K. Chugh [mailto:[EMAIL PR

RE: Programmatically perform a HotSync

2000-07-27 Thread Bob Whiteman
would simulate the user pressing the cradle button, which is generally configured to do a local hotsync (though the user can change this behavior). -Bob Whiteman > -Original Message- > From: Eric Sun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 9:20 AM > To: Pal

RE: Mutually-exclusive checkbox

2000-07-26 Thread Bob Whiteman
You can do this by creating a number of checkboxes on the form and then assigning a Group ID to them. Checkboxes with the same group ID are treated as a set of radio buttons. (Unfortunately the Palm OS draws them the same whether they're grouped or not, so for the sake of the user you may want to

Palm OS 3.5 list arrows

2000-07-26 Thread Bob Whiteman
n the drawing. Is there a fix for this issue? -Bob Whiteman -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

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