re: the doc writer(s) weren't thinking about scrollbars when they wrote the
text you quoted
In my neck of the professional Software Development world, the tech writers
take direction from the engineering department on which major subjects and
associated details need to go into the manuals, then u
When the finger points to the sky, the idiot looks at the finger.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Alex Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 8:57 AM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: Re: Retry: Palm OS Enhancement request
>
> Thanks
--- Terry Dennis wrote:
> According to the Palm OS Programmers' Companion documentation ...
>
> Note that there is no documented limitation regarding
> ScrollBars. This omission of a limitation lends credence to
> the thought that the FrmAddScrollBar routine (or, whatever)
> was simply forgot
According to the Palm OS Programmers' Companion documentation ...
**
Some applications, such as forms packages, must create their displays at
runtime-it is for applications such as these that the Dynamic UI API is
provided. If you're not absolutely sure that you need to change your UI
dynamic
.
-Original Message-
From: Alex Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 8:57 AM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Re: Retry: Palm OS Enhancement request
Thanks for the prototype.
Both HwrDisplayAttributes and hwrDispBackLight (it is 18) seem to be
unaccountably missing
Thanks for the prototype.
Both HwrDisplayAttributes and hwrDispBackLight (it is 18) seem to be
unaccountably missing from the header files I have.
But POSER doesn't complain about the call (HwrBackLight triggers
Proscribed function call). Does that make HwrDisplayAttributes an
undocumented funct
--- Alex Robinson wrote:
> Jim,
> I seem to have lost my notes on this: what's the modern
> replacement for HwrBacklight(Boolean set, Boolean newState)?
I happen to have saved that info. On Wed 8/15/2001 @ 10:27 AM, Jim
Schram said:
Toggling the backlight is best done by posting a vchrBackligh
Jim,
I seem to have lost my notes on this: what's the modern replacement for
HwrBacklight(Boolean set, Boolean newState)?
Thanks,
Alex
Jim Schram wrote:
>
> At 9:33 AM -0800 2002/01/25, Richard M. Hartman wrote:
> >There are other
> >instances of incomplete API function sets, which seem to b
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 09:33:37AM -0800, Richard M. Hartman wrote:
>> * When dynamic UI was added, there may well have been a good reason why
>> dynamic scroll bars were not included.
>
> May? May? ... or perhaps it was just overlooked.
Indeed. That is why I used the word "may". Duh.
W
At 9:33 AM -0800 2002/01/25, Richard M. Hartman wrote:
>There are other
>instances of incomplete API function sets, which seem to be the
>result of incompletely thinking the issues through rather than intentional
>decision making. IIRC there were similar issues regarding the backlight
>API for on
"John Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:74523@palm-dev-forum...
>
...
> So at the moment you have Palm OS code that translates your OS
> independent UI representation into a sequence of calls to
>
> FrmNewForm
> FrmNewLabel, CtlNewControl, etc, TerrysNewScrollBar, ...
>
> I
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 07:22:47PM -0700, Terry Dennis wrote:
> Yep. That's VERY similar to what we're doing here. We have table driven
> routines that dynamically create a form (meaning, no form resource exists,
> so there can be no "dummy" scrollbar that can be dynamically activated).
This me
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 07:23:19AM -0700, Terry Dennis wrote:
> re: When this comes up, usually at least one of the responses is: Please
> demonstrate a sane UI that needs dynamic addition of scroll bars.
>
> check out the prior message I sent on a completely
> dynamically create
re: When this comes up, usually at least one of the responses is: Please
demonstrate a sane UI that needs dynamic addition of scroll bars.
OK, wiseguy ... check out the prior message I sent on a completely
dynamically created User driven User Interface, posted to this newsgroup on
7/20/2001.
Wh
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:47:33AM -0700, Terry Dennis wrote:
> I posted a message on 1/11/2002, but just now realized the text got
> truncated to 1,000 characters because the newsgroup server uses an
> evaluation copy of the "Newsgroups Interface".
(It wasn't truncated; it is just currently bein
I posted a message on 1/11/2002, but just now realized the text got
truncated to 1,000 characters because the newsgroup server uses an
evaluation copy of the "Newsgroups Interface". A shortened version follows.
We can add forms and specific types of objects, but there doesn't seem to be
a way to
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