OS 4 Debug ROM Error

2001-04-01 Thread Alan Ingleby

Lately, my gremlin runs have been bombing out with a "Form.c, Line:177, Form
already loaded" error.  All my form switching is done using FrmGotoForm, and
I ignore all frmCloseForm events, making sure they get returned as false.  I
have looked through the archives, and KB, but to no avail..

I'm sure I'm making an obvoius mistake somewhere, but can't see where.  To
point me in the right direction, can anyone list the common reasons for this
occurring?

Regards,

Alan Ingleby





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Re: OS 4 Debug ROM Error

2001-04-02 Thread Sebastian Voges


"Alan Ingleby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:44337@palm-dev-forum...
>
> Lately, my gremlin runs have been bombing out with a "Form.c, Line:177,
Form
> already loaded" error.  All my form switching is done using FrmGotoForm,
and
> I ignore all frmCloseForm events, making sure they get returned as false.
I
> have looked through the archives, and KB, but to no avail..
>
> I'm sure I'm making an obvoius mistake somewhere, but can't see where.  To
> point me in the right direction, can anyone list the common reasons for
this
> occurring?

I am not sure if this is a common reason, but I had this error message once,
when I called FrmGotoForm(myForm) and the myForm form was currently
active/displayed on the screen.
Though the switching worked for a couple of thousand gremlin events, I
eventually  got the error message you described. In my case that was not
related to OS4 roms.

Maybe post some code snippets...

best regards,
Sebastian



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Re: OS 4 Debug ROM Error

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Ingleby

"Sebastian Voges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:44385@palm-dev-forum...
> "Alan Ingleby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:44337@palm-dev-forum...
> >
> > Lately, my gremlin runs have been bombing out with a "Form.c, Line:177,
> Form
> > already loaded" error.  All my form switching is done using FrmGotoForm,
> and
> > I ignore all frmCloseForm events, making sure they get returned as
false.
> I
> > have looked through the archives, and KB, but to no avail..
> >
> > I'm sure I'm making an obvoius mistake somewhere, but can't see where.
To
> > point me in the right direction, can anyone list the common reasons for
> this
> > occurring?
>
> I am not sure if this is a common reason, but I had this error message
once,
> when I called FrmGotoForm(myForm) and the myForm form was currently
> active/displayed on the screen.
> Though the switching worked for a couple of thousand gremlin events, I
> eventually  got the error message you described. In my case that was not
> related to OS4 roms.
>
> Maybe post some code snippets...

My codebase is fairly huge, so I couldn't really post snippets without
posting fairly large blocks of code.  What I *can* do is show you the
EventHandler loop, which activates the new form, the  indicates the line
which causes the crash.

static Boolean ApplicationHandleEvent(EventPtr event)
{
 FormPtr   frm;
 Int16   formId;
 Boolean   handled = false;

 if (event->eType == frmLoadEvent) {
  formId = event->data.frmLoad.formID;
  frm = FrmInitForm(formId); //
  FrmSetActiveForm(frm);

[]

I then go on to set the form handlers for the form etc... I'm pretty sure
this structure is common to most palm software.

I have worked around this bug be replacing the line which was causing the
crash with this:

  frm = FrmGetFormPtr(formId);
  if (!frm) {
   frm = FrmInitForm(formId);
  }

Here, I'm checking to see if the form is already loaded, and if it is, I
don't load it again... (But why is it *sometimes* already loaded, but not
other times???)

Running gremlins on this can cause a crash anywhere from 150 hits to 2
hits.  When I manually try to duplicate the results, I can NEVER get it to
crash.

Regards,

Alan Ingleby
Systems Developer
ProfitLink Consulting Pty Ltd
309 Burwood Road
Hawthorn
Victoria 3122
Australia



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