First off, let me point out that Im still trying to come up to speed on
the Palm development thing. I'm new on this platform so if I'm asking
stupid questions, please forgive me and just point me in the right
direction. Havent seen any other mention of this specific problem posted
in the news groups, probably something unique to this situation, hopefully
something simple.
Using CW for Palm R6 on Win98se OS. Usually try to avoid software
updates until the dust has settled. Have often been bit by the latest
version messing something up. Got tired of having to restart CW and POSE
for each new session because couldnt find helper app kept showing up.
Heard that bug had been corrected in latest version, SDK 3.5 had been out
there for awhile; guess its time to update.
Got and installed SDK 3.5, Update-1, POSE 3.0a7, skins to make it look
pretty, and a few of the latest debug roms from Palm website.
On first use stepped through app Im working on, all seems good. With
app running, select applications launcher (upper left button on screen, the
one with the arrow or little house on it, depending on the unit) effectively
shutting down the app being tested. Get a whole series of messages, the
first being that there is a possible memory leak followed by a message
saying records left locked in closed unprotected DB. (Others were
indicating that the app just read directly from an unallocated chunk but I
won't go into too much detail here, this is already getting long.)
OK, thats possible, Im learning, new debug roms doing their job .
Started shutting off stuff in app being tested (/* */ ing out stuff) to
get an idea of area offending code is. Got to point where there is nothing
much left, still getting error messages when hit applications launcher
button.
As a reality check, built and downloaded one of the MemoPad apps in the
tutorial; basically same messages show up. Built and downloaded several
example apps that came with CW, including the Memo app, all give similar
string of error messages. Finally built and downloaded a bare bones app,
does nothing but display main screen with title on it; same error messages.
Im getting a message that there is a possible memory leak from an app
that assigns no memory. Im getting a message that there have been records
left locked in a closed unprotected DB, from an app that has no reference to
a DB in it. It doesnt create a DB, it doesnt try to read from a DB, the
app does nothing but start and display an empty screen.
A hex dump (hd 0) will sometimes return "#ERROR: Invalid chunk size",
other times will lock of CW.
Most versions of debug rom that I have will give me these messages.
(palmos 33-en-v-dbg.rom ; palmos33-en-iii-dbg.rom ; palmos35-en-ezdbg.rom) .
V2.0 of debug rom (palmos20-en-pro-dbg.rom) does not, and will run the
above mentioned apps without displaying the messages; and of course the non
debug roms have no problem with the apps. (At least no problem that is
apparent. Of course that's their intent, to make things look as good as
possible.)
I would suspect a bug in the debug roms or the new version of the
emulator, but I should be seeing news groups like this one light up if that
was the case. Maybe there is something else required to complete the update
that I missed.
Am I the only one seeing this stuff? Am I missing something here? I'll
continue to work on development using the V2.0 debug rom but that isn't
really a solution. Any assistance or pointers would be appreciated.
Thanks
Terry
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