Actually, you don't need two versions of the code. The release ROMs will
send the frmUpdate message only when they were unable to allocate memory for
the 'save behind' bits. The debug ROMS do it all the time to help you
eliminate the occasional calls from the user telling you about an error you
can not reproduce because it was the 1 time in a million you app got the
frmUpdate message and it was not handled. It might be nice to be able to
turn it off for speed in debugging in some cases however. (Before someone
tells me haow hard this is, I realize that, I just said it might be nice)
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of derik
DeVecchio
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 06:42
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Re: Screen Refresh Problem OS 3.5 Debug Rom on B/W
Mike Davis,
On Fri, 19 May 2000 12:24:04 -0700, you said:
>
> This is also a little difficult to manage.
Sorry if this already been stated but I am trying to figure out how to
get around this as well. For various reasons the time to draw my form
is about 1 second long. Not huge, but not the "instant switch" we all
love about Palm OS (compared to Wince). I really don't /want/ my
program to "update" and re-draw on the real thing instead of taking
advantage of the much faster "saved background" feature. It wouldn't
matter so much if I only have to redraw it while debugging but then I
need to compile two different codes. One to use while debugging and
another for the real ROM that takes advantage of the saved background
feature.
In principle this feature of the 3.5 debug ROMS is a good one. I agree
with what you were trying to accomplish. In general I would leave it
on. But I have one part of my program that I am forced to debug "blind"
because I can't see what is supposed to be there. Would it be possible
to turn this feature on and off with a switch?
BTW, the saved bits... Are they on the stack? Or in regular RAM?
derik
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