I see this question often "how do I tie the address book to my pqa?" I know
that this is possible (see ePQA). What I don't know is how to do it. I
have a hunch though, and through our collective minds we can get to the
answer ;)
What I do know: The clipper displays your pqa as a form. You can get at
this form with FrmGetActiveForm() from your palmcall'ed prc. It has 11
objects, regardless of the html in your pqa.
The objects are (by index)
0 frmTitleObj
1 frmControlObj
2 frmBitmapObj
3 frmControlObj
4 frmControlObj
5 frmPopupObj
6 frmListObj
7 frmGraffitiStateObj
8 frmGadgetObj
9 frmScrollbarObj
10 frmScrollbarObj
Index 0 is the form title set with <title></title>. 4 has a label of
history. 1 & 3 I'm not 100% sure are controls, I couldn't get at them
without crashing the palm and the ControlStyleType is 64 - there are only 8
enum values for that field.
The real one is the gadget. It is displaying the html, based on the fact
it's points are 0,14 -> 160,160. But since a gadget's data is free format,
I have no idea how to get at it.
It would be nice if palm released the source to the clipper. Even if it is
totally unsupported, it would help us developers out until the standard apps
(like address book) understood how to fill out a pqa form from their
database. There are also several other uses for this, such as sudo-cookies
(your prc can have a database) and field validation on the client end (after
all, isn't that why you really want a PalmScript?).
Also Mr. Patt could enlighten the rest of us...
Mike
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