Hi.

The rectangle button is nothing hard to do.  Make your button frame-less and
specify the sizes.  In your code, draw a rectangle just outside of the button
bounds. This makes the button looks exactly like a rectangle button.

Max
--- sajulpn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Roger,
>             I agree with whatever you have said, this might not work 
> with the next major release. But what is the next major release supposed 
> to give to enable us to change frame attributes? Palm talks about the 
> glue functions, but I have failed to locate anything there. Surely Palm 
> will not remove a facility that that they have given to us till right 
> now. That would be absurd. They have to provide some method or call to 
> change frame attributes dynamically. If that is not the case then all 
> the old applications written earlier will need major changes to run on 
> new devices.
>             Besides since Palm has defined all these attributes they 
> must also provide the means and methods to use them. If you know the 
> method please post them here. It will be a lot of help to us all.
> ;-)  Cheers,
> Sajul
> 
> Ps- I did not understand how exactly the code will fail. I am copying 
> the structure to a temp variable and making changes to the temp variable 
> and assigning the temp values to the old structure variable. Is the 
> structure protected? If it is why does it not give any warning on the 
> emulator? It does give a warning if I directly change the frame 
> attribute of the struct variable.
> 
> Stringer wrote:
> 
> >
> >This might be a work around for the current error trap, but the error trap
> >exists because Palm doesn't expect this will work with the next major
> >release of the OS.
> >
> >All you  are really doing is building code which is guaranteed to fail
> >in the very near future.  A bad programming style!
> >
> >Roger Stringer
> >Marietta Systems, inc.
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
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