Combining Interupt Serial -> custom event with Event queue (Timing Question)

2002-04-08 Thread Clifford Jones
I have a interrupt driven serial input routine and want to have that place a custom event in the event queue. Has anybody timed how long in milliseconds the delay would be before my routine in a form handler would recieve the event? Does the event go on the queue and immedently go to the form ha

Re: saving Bitmaps to resources

2002-04-08 Thread Ben Combee
> What is the proper way of saving a Bitmap to a resource? I remember > someone from PalmSource mentioning that one can't copy the Bitmap directly, > because the bitmap header and the bitmap data may not be contiguous in > memory. I've looked in the eScribe archives, but I guess my search-fu > i

Re: saving Bitmaps to resources

2002-04-08 Thread James
Sorry to repost this question, but surely someone can give me a brief answer? --- "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:82540@palm-dev-forum... What is the proper way of saving a Bitmap to a resource? I remember someone from PalmSource mentioning that one can't copy the Bitmap direc

Re: How to detect Sony's JogAssist

2002-04-08 Thread James
Out of curiosity, why do you want to know if JogAssist is enabled? If your application needs to handle Jog Dial events itself, it can disable JogAssist programmatically using the JogAssist Mask. If your application is dependent on JogAssist and wants to enable JogAssist programmatically, that's

Re: automating Palm build info

2002-04-08 Thread Joe
--- Clifford Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I use Codewarrier. Do you know how > to do this automation inside a Codewarrier > project? > If all you want is something simple like date and time you compiled, include these in your source code: Char buildVersion[21]; StrPrintF(buildVersi

Re: automating Palm build info

2002-04-08 Thread Oliver Steinmeier
Cliff, > I use Codewarrier. Do you know how > to do this automation inside a Codewarrier > project? Search the archives for "__TIME__" and you'll find messages discussing this issue. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with Turb

Re: automating Palm build info

2002-04-08 Thread Clifford Jones
Kelly, I use Codewarrier. Do you know how to do this automation inside a Codewarrier project? Thank you. Cliff Jones - Narly Software "Kelly Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:58411@palm-dev-forum... > >Thought I'd give a little back to the newsgroup for all the info I'v

Chunk Overlocked

2002-04-08 Thread Edward P. Ross
The code below fires when I click on a list that is displayed via a pop up trigger. If I click on the trigger and select an item in the list, on the 14th time I get a chunk overlocked error. (See line in question). I am using DmReleaseRecord paired with the DmGetRecord and the MemHandleUnloc

RE: Launching App from the Hard Buttons

2002-04-08 Thread Danny Epstein
> 1.) The stub app shows up in the list of apps. How do > you made these not visible? Is changing the type from > 'appl' to something else all I need to do? They won't show up in the Buttons panel unless they're of type 'appl'. (PQAs may also be listed.) I was thinking that you could set dmH

Re: How to detect Sony's JogAssist

2002-04-08 Thread Lonnie Foster
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Mike McCollister wrote: > Does anyone know how to detect whether Sony's > JogAssist is enabled or not? I don't think there is any way to detect whether JogAssist is enabled or not. My interpretation of Sony's documentation is that if your application needs to perform its own

Re: Launching App from the Hard Buttons

2002-04-08 Thread Dan Dorton
I tried out your suggestion, and it seems to work. I have a couple more followup questions. 1.) The stub app shows up in the list of apps. How do you made these not visible? Is changing the type from 'appl' to something else all I need to do? If I change the type then the PrefSetPreferen

Re: Pbms with using Netlib on POSE(Problem Redefined)

2002-04-08 Thread Dharini Iyengar
This is the sequel to the problems with netlib. The client is getting connected but.. 1)Is not able to send messages. 2)The Serial Link Manager errors are still there on the server. We use CodeWarriorIDE and when we use Debug, the Log says CmdWriteRemoteMem:error in SlkReceivePkt 3)the Client

Re: FldDelete

2002-04-08 Thread Joe
--- Carmen Sandiego wrote: I am using FldDelete to clear an editable field. Is it necessary to lock a handle to the field to do this? --- I wrote: > > void FldDelete (FieldType *fldP, UInt16 start, UInt16 end) > > > > Looks like you need a pointer to a field and the start > > and end positio

RE: Check the file for hotsync

2002-04-08 Thread Borislav Kolev
Prasad, I wouldn't normally advertise in this forum, but why don't you try and use an installer that will do most of the things you want in a wizard or something? Check out www.beiks.com/palmzonebg/catapult.htm and get back to me offline if you have specific questions about it.

Check the file for hotsync

2002-04-08 Thread Prasad Brid
Please guide me on the following : I want to check the flag for hotsync of the .pdb file so that when same blank file is installed than I should prompt the user that file has not sync and install is not done. Thanks Prasad __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo

RE: Modifying 'tver' resource (was RE: Emulator shows desired res ult, PalmV [real] device does not... why?)

2002-04-08 Thread Danny Epstein
> a reset fixes the problem, so it seems to me that maybe either the "Info" > menu does not query the 'tver' resource every time, but rather only at a > reset, or somehow the application database does not get updated properly > after modification and it takes a reset to kick things into a known st

RE: Separating DB from app

2002-04-08 Thread Danny Epstein
> Todd, I don't think the databases of an application > will get deleted if you replace the application > with a new version during hotsync. Correct. You might want to warn your users not to delete the old version before installing the new one. -- Danny @ PalmSource -- For information on using

Re: Launching App from the Hard Buttons

2002-04-08 Thread Dave Lippincott
A suggestion I had earlier: Make several small 'stub' apps that you link to the individual buttons. Each app calls your main app with different parameters. - Original Message - From: "Dan Dorton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 08, 20

Re: Validating a dbID?

2002-04-08 Thread David Fedor
>This means that heuristics will have to be used to verify that a dbID still >corresponds to the same database, like requiring a match on the database >name, creator ID and db type. This isn't guaranteed to work... Fundamentally the problem is that a dbID is basically the same thing as a pointer

Launching App from the Hard Buttons

2002-04-08 Thread Dan Dorton
I am trying to figure out a way to launch my application from the hard buttons and have it go to a specific screen. I would seem that I could use the following, for example, to set the Date book Hard Button to launch the application with the Creator ID of 'STRT'. PrefSetPreference (prefHard1Ch

RE: Validating a dbID?

2002-04-08 Thread Danny Epstein
I wouldn't recommend attempting to validate a database's LocalID. As you said, it's just a card-relative handle. If you attempt to access the LocalID after the database has been deleted, the following outcomes are possible: 1. Nothing else occupies this space in memory, and your access fails grac

Question on Scrollbars

2002-04-08 Thread Rob Bell
Hi, I am working on enhancing an application that I did not originally develop. I want to change the scrollbar behavior in a form but I can't figure out how to do this. I am also new to Palm form development, so be patient... ;-) The form that I want to enhance currently uses up and down arro

Re: DR9 download still broken [RE: OS 5 Downloads]

2002-04-08 Thread David Fedor
> This is still broken as of 10AM PDT today and is very annoying. Can someone > from Palm please just tell us what the actual file name is, assuming you can > do that faster than actually fixing the page? The html page somehow got pushed live before the zip files were posted; we don't know if it

Re: Validating a dbID?

2002-04-08 Thread Joe
--- "Mark A. Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This means that heuristics will have to be used to verify > that a dbID still corresponds to the same database, like > requiring a match on the database name, creator ID and db > type. This isn't guaranteed to work, though, And so you may want

Re: Validating a dbID?

2002-04-08 Thread Mark A. Peters
> > > --- "Mark A. Peters" wrote: > > > > [MemLocalIDToLockedPtr done on a database ID yields NULL] > > > "Joe" wrote: > [...] That is not correct. There must be something wrong in either the code > that stashes the LocalID or the code that retrieves it. Yep, you're right: I had the order of t

How to detect Sony's JogAssist

2002-04-08 Thread Mike McCollister
Does anyone know how to detect whether Sony's JogAssist is enabled or not? Thanks, Mike McCollister __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums,

Re: DR9 download still broken [RE: OS 5 Downloads]

2002-04-08 Thread Aaron Ardiri
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Scott Johnson wrote: > > it seems they "fixed" the filenames; the URL now ends > > with the filename "Palm_OS_5_Simulator_dr9.zip" -- but > > it still/again results in a 404 error (using IE or > > Netscape). Looks like the URL now doesn't reflect > > the actual filename. > > T

DR9 download still broken [RE: OS 5 Downloads]

2002-04-08 Thread Scott Johnson
> it seems they "fixed" the filenames; the URL now ends > with the filename "Palm_OS_5_Simulator_dr9.zip" -- but > it still/again results in a 404 error (using IE or > Netscape). Looks like the URL now doesn't reflect > the actual filename. This is still broken as of 10AM PDT today and is very a

Re: Validating a dbID?

2002-04-08 Thread Mark A. Peters
Scratch that - looking at the database list with Insider shows that they're not stored alphabetically. It's a hash table, perhaps? Mark Peters "Mark A. Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:83150@palm-dev-forum... > >>[...] It looks like the system keeps the list of databases in >

Re: Separating DB from app

2002-04-08 Thread Todd Cary
You are correct! Works as advertised!! Many thanks. Todd -- Todd Cary Ariste Software 2200 D Street Extension Petaluma, CA 94952 707-773-4523 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Validating a dbID?

2002-04-08 Thread Mark A. Peters
Doesn't that imply that the OS potentially has to update the local ID of every record of every database whenever a database is created or deleted? A dbID is the card offset of the database header, just as a record's local ID is the card offset of the record's chunk. Unless dbID's are special-case

Re: Validating a dbID?

2002-04-08 Thread Joe
> > --- "Mark A. Peters" wrote: > > > I have tried using the Memory Manager functions for > > > converting LocalID's to pointers for this, but they > > > always return a NULL value when given even a valid dbID. > > "Joe" wrote: > > That's surprising. In the following code, MemLocalIDToLockedPtr(

Re: FrmHideObject

2002-04-08 Thread John Leung
On 8 Apr 2002 at 17:32, John Marshall wrote: > This technique will last just fine, because it *doesn't* attempt to > "change the table's data structure in any future OS". It only does the Bad > Thing on the old crappy OS, not the future ones. The point wasn't about this self created glue functio

Re: FrmHideObject

2002-04-08 Thread John Marshall
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 08:16:38AM -0700, John Leung wrote: > On 8 Apr 2002 at 10:59, Thomas Ward wrote: >> I have an app that requires Palm OS 2.0 or later. On one of its forms is a >> table that needs to be shown or hidden based on certain criteria. Since >> FrmHideObject does work correctly on

Re: FrmHideObject

2002-04-08 Thread John Leung
Have you tried explicitly checking the OS version in your set_table_usable function? That is if you have the OS that has fixed the problem, then do nothing, otherwise, set the attribute. I don't know how long this technique will last because if people start to change the table's data structu

Re: Validating a dbID?

2002-04-08 Thread Mark A. Peters
I'm trying to avoid DmFindDatabase. For example, if an app initially discovers a database's local ID via DmFindDatabase, stashes the ID in a record in another database, quits, and then in some subsequent invocation wants to use the stashed ID. For that to be safe, there has to be a way to valida

Re: i705 Rom for pose?

2002-04-08 Thread Chris DiPierro
That's well and good for those who have an i705...but how about for those of us who have no desire to buy the actual device, but need to support it? "Colleen Dong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:83078@palm-dev-forum... > > Let me clarify. I meant recieving the i705 rom after downloadi

FrmHideObject

2002-04-08 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, I have an app that requires Palm OS 2.0 or later. On one of its forms is a table that needs to be shown or hidden based on certain criteria. Since FrmHideObject does work correctly on tables until 4.0, I could not use it. Until recently, I simply set the table's attr.usable bit to true or fal

RE: Dynamic Resource - urgent

2002-04-08 Thread Joe
> > --- Rohit_Shankar wrote: > > > FormPtr frm = FrmGetActiveForm(); > > > fldPtr = FldNewField((void **)frm, ... --- I wrote: > > 1. You didn't declare fldPtr. --- Rohit_Shankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do I need to allocate memory to the fieldPtr The docs for FldNewField say

Re: i705 Rom for pose?

2002-04-08 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Now there's a great idea! For the listed ROMs you don't have, just click > this Download button. Except how would you enforce "registered" users vs. invalid users who have POSE? dd. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.p

Re: Validating a dbID?

2002-04-08 Thread James
Given a card number and a local ID, you can iterate through all the databases on the card with DmGetDatabase and check if any of them match the local ID. I would expect this to be a /little/ bit faster than searching for the database by name. However, I'm not certain if this is too useful, becau

RE: Palm OS 5 Simulator - Mac

2002-04-08 Thread Christophe ANDRES
The day a PC becomes required to develop for Palm OS devices is the day I'll look for something else to develop for ;) Fortunately, the emulator is here (and I never even used the simulator on Mac before, so...) Christophe ANDRES On samedi, avril 6, 2002, at 09:00 , Peter Epstein <[EMAIL PROT