>I'm trying to write software to add an appointment to the Date Book from
>inside another application running on the palm. Does anyone know of an API I
>can use to do this, or built in methods, I've looked at a few, but they're
Actually, if you take a look at the DateBook source code that comes
> Basic Membership - This annual membership offers access to the only
> searchable technical support database for the Palm OS. Just $100 per
> year allows 24/7 access to thousands of FAQs with hundreds more
> added each month.
Pay $100 to access a database? Someone must be joking
Stephen B
hi evrybody,
is it true that code warrior lite does not support
segmentation
because,my application works fine with code warrior
7.0 but not with
code
warrior lite 6.0
thanx & rgds
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> Subject: RE: Access to PalmOS structures
> From: Keith Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ...
> However, I just heard back from one of the Palm OS engineers, who
> says that your reason for changing fonts still isn't justification
> for directly accessing the field. While less simple, the proper wa
O.S = 3.0
Hi
My app creates an offscreen window, calls WinDrawChars to draw text on the
offscreen window, then copies from the offscreen window to the form, and
nothing appears, (The form is a modal form). Yet( and this happened by
accident) when I copy from the offscreen window to the location w
Hi there,
[repost in order to make the subject more specific]
I would like to create a table in which one of the columns may
contain more than one *TableItem as style - some of those are
textTableItems, some are checkboxTableItem
Now I've run into the problem on how selecting a row inside such
Hi !
If I understood the email palm sent to us ( my english is really poor ),
we'll now have to pay to have something similar to this Palm Developer Forum.
This is really bad !!
I think I answer more messages than I post ( an average of 1 answered message
by day for one question asked by a we
Please can anyone help me on this one.
I have a get object and hide object problem with my push buttons.
At the start of my program i have hidden the push buttons on the form
THIS WORKS O.K
FrmHideObject( form, FrmGetObjectIndex( form,OrderAPushButton ) );
FrmHideObject( form, FrmGetObjectIndex
At 9:27 AM +0200 4/4/01, Linke, Andreas wrote:
>
>On PalmOS 3.0 to 3.5, using CtlNewControl will suffer from the obnoxious
>PrvFixupPointers bug. I can't imagine anyone at Palm wanting to support
>this.
Yes...this point has been made. I'm currently waiting to hear back
from the engineer who pro
hi
i believe TblSetItemStyle is for a Column not for a cell in a table
Ajit
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Holger
Klawitter
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 1:18 PM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: tables with inhomogenios column style
At 9:27 AM +0200 4/4/01, Linke, Andreas wrote:
>
>On PalmOS 3.0 to 3.5, using CtlNewControl will suffer from the obnoxious
>PrvFixupPointers bug. I can't imagine anyone at Palm wanting to support
>this.
Yes...this point has been made. I'm currently waiting to hear back
from the engineer who pro
"Garth Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:44622@palm-dev-forum...
>
> O.S = 3.0
>
> Hi
> My app creates an offscreen window, calls WinDrawChars to draw text on
the
> offscreen window, then copies from the offscreen window to the form,
and
> nothing appears, (The form is a modal for
ROM : 4.0v fulldbg
POSE : 3.1
The following code crashes, because I call it before drawing the first form
in my program.
===
UInt32newDepth;
newDepth = 4;
WinScreenMode(winScreenModeSet, NULL, NULL,&newDepth, NULL);
===
I got around it by ensuring the Dr
As Palm memory fills up does the device consume morepower? If I use MathLib
which is 50K rather than TinyTrig which is 7K will the Palm device use more
electricity? If when you switch memory on it is initialised to 0 then there
is no point it keeping it switched on if its only holding 0.
Peter
Why isnt this problem easily solved by just having the device
sync its time and TZ with the desktop during a hotsync?
(or over the net if its a net device)
let the desktop figure it out..
"Peter Epstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:44575@palm-dev-forum...
>
> At 02:26 PM 3/30/2001,
I downloaded the roms (It would be a good idea to write the size for such huge
files) and there is nothing for non EZ devices ???
PalmOS40-efigs-color.rom
PalmOS40-efigs-colordbg.rom
PalmOS40-efigs-v-dbg.rom
PalmOS40-en-color.rom
PalmOS40-en-colordbg.rom
PalmOS40-en-v-dbg.rom
PalmOS40-en-v.rom
P
Hi All,
Getting error ( !! Out of Heap memory) on emulator/Device while running Kawt
application on J2ME/KVM.
Please Help !!
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>>The user is expected to create two repeating events
But how does one set a repeating event for the last Sunday of October?
Todd Augsburger
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Roller Organs
http://www.bright.net/~allmax/index.htm
Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time and Palm
From: Peter Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTE
> From: Peter Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ...
> At 02:26 PM 3/30/2001, Chris DiPierro wrote:
> >In OS/4.0 there's a preference that the user can set to
> "On/Off", but no,
> >Palm does not automatically correct for DST. It merely asks
> the user. And
> >again, this is OS/4.0 only.
>
> That's
I don't believe the power consumption is measurably different regardless of
the amount of memory you are "using". The fact is you are always using all
of the memory. It is mapped into the address space and ram has power on
it always(unless the batteries are dead). With static ram, the power
Can anyone please help me.
I have a very strange problem with showing my hidden push buttons.
I have hidden eight pushbuttons on my form as shown below, The code has been
cut and paste 8 times to hide the eight buttons ranging from A to H.
This is O.K
But when it comes to dispalying them by select
Looks like it could be a quick way for Palm to loose their developer base.
I tried their developer exchange 'experiment', it was terrible. I think a
paid support option (with access to Palm trained support engineers) is a
good idea. It will give the smaller developers a place to go for official
> > Basic Membership - This annual membership offers access to the only
> > searchable technical support database for the Palm OS. Just $100 per
> > year allows 24/7 access to thousands of FAQs with hundreds more
> > added each month.
> Pay $100 to access a database? Someone must be joking
Not enough to worry about battery life, if at all.
- Original Message -
From: "Peter Mott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 5:30 AM
Subject: Brain is Full
> As Palm memory fills up does the device consume morepower? If I
I don't think they're saying they want to end the newsgroup.
Excerpt from tech support email I assume everyone just got:
"Complementary to the Exchange are a number of Palm programs and
resources dedicated to providing technical development support to the
Palm OS developer community. These incl
note: If you write to flash, this will produce a temporary drain on the
battery.
-Original Message-
From: Marty Ellis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 9:19 AM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Re: Brain is Full
I don't believe the power consumption is measurabl
>>On Palm OS 3.3 this hangs up the system. Does anyone have any ideas?
>
>SysTaskDelay(time * ticksPerTenth);
>
>is the problem. SysTaskDelay wants a number of ticks. Why do you
>multiple it by time, and what value is time set to?
>
>Also, if you want 10 ms, I think you want
>
>ticksPerSec = SysT
Please excuse this question if it is easily found.. but I couldn't figure
out where to begin to look for the answer..
I am exporting some information to a memopad record and I want to make sure
I don't create something that is too big to fit in a single record. What is
the largest record I should
>I used the InetLib sample and ran thru a strange problem. While fetching the
>requested data it hangs on the status code "inetStatusSendingRequest" untill
>the form is tapped somewhere on the screen.
>
>Is the problem only coming with me or has anyone else encountered it?
I have seen it too. Are
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Dave Lippincott wrote:
> Looks like it could be a quick way for Palm to loose their developer base.
> I tried their developer exchange 'experiment', it was terrible. I think a
> paid support option (with access to Palm trained support engineers) is a
> good idea. It will giv
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Ken Davidson wrote:
>
> When I read the message, I got the impression that some genius in
> marketing saw 10,000 developers and said, "Imagine the money we could
> make if we charged these people to write code for our platform."
> Shareware and freeware authors make precious l
I have a very strange problem with showing my hidden push buttons.
I have hidden eight pushbuttons on my form as shown below, The code has been
cut and paste 8 times to hide the eight buttons ranging from A to H.
This is O.K
But when it comes to dispalying them by selecting a different push button
Looking in the example code for Memo Pad for OS 4.0, you can find that the
maximum memo size is 4096 bytes. Not sure if this includes the null
terminator or not, so use "4095 + null" to be safe.
"Bradly J. Barton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:44670@palm-dev-forum...
>
> Please excuse
> From: nisha a
>
> is it true that code warrior lite does not support
> segmentation
>
CodeWarrior Lite is a free demo version of CW. It does not support
everything that the full version supports -- no C++, no multi-segment
apps -- and it is not supposed to be used to develop commercial
applica
>/ Write the new appointment to the date book, save the record index so that
>// we can pass it to the Date Book for subsequent viewing, and free
>the buffer pointer.
>// UTAddRecord creates a new record of size MemPtrSize ( recP ),
>copies what's in recP
>// into that record, and returns the ne
As a Palm's memory fills up does the device consume more power? If I use
MathLib
which is 50K rather than TinyTrig which is 7K will the Palm device use more
electricity? I expect this is a daft question. It is just that if when you
switch memory on it is initialised to 0 then there is no point it
>You just won't be sending emails to devsupp anymore. I don't know about
>anyone else, but I never did that anyway since the first couple of times
>I tried (over 2 years ago, mind you) I didn't get the info I needed.
That's the way I read it too. We generally never got any _answers_
from devsup
Hi,
My company makes a data acquisition device that is designed
to connect to a Palm through the serial port. We load the data from
our acquisition device into the Palm, and the Palm basically serves
as a data logger. The system works well, and we're happy with it -
but we have a mi
But does this new strategy mean that the only way a developer can get
ROM code, SDK documentation, etc, will be via a paid subscription?
If that is the case, it will mean the end to the palm. 10,000
developers will not subscribe. You will have some large developers sign
up but most won't.
On
(responding to a few notes all at once...)
>But in their most recent bulletin, they made it sound like their goal is
>to move everyone over and then kill the newsgroup.
Not at all. In fact we just moved it to better hardware and a more stable
OS (hint: unix based.)
>I think the focus was on e
At 5:00 PM -0400 4/3/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Are there any known problems running the serial port at 115Kbps with hardware
>handshaking turned on?
Yes -- hardware handshaking doesn't work.
>I am trying to send data through the serial port (using SerialMgrOld
>routines). At 115Kbps I get
What is the complete list of units that support INetLib and hence HTTPS
connections?
X Palm VII/VIIX
? Kyocera Smartphone
? Any Palm equipped with "Mobile Internet Kit"
? Any Palm running PalmOS 4.0
- Equipped with Omnisky/Minstrel Modem
- VisorPhone
? Symbol SPT1733/1734
X=Definitely yes, ?=Do
At 11:53 AM +1000 3/28/01, Alan Ingleby wrote:
>It seems a
>little unnecessary for everyone who needs to do this to create a gadget
>themselves.
Not to mention that creating your own control gadgets is fraught with
peril: Does it look absolutely identical to the system one? What if
the look of
>So unless I'm missing something, adding
>something to the DateBook in this manner (that is, without determining
>where in the database it should be inserted) is very dangerous.
I'm sure there are some subtleties that I'm ignoring, but this method
works fine for me.
Regards,
Steve Mann
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Does anyone know how quickly the Palm serial port stops transmitting when
clear-to-send is deactivated? If I have an external device that deactivates
the clear-to-send signal, how many bytes can this device expect to receive
before the Palm stops transmitting?
Conversely, when does the Palm se
> From: adam davies
>
> I have a very strange problem with showing my hidden push buttons.
> I have hidden eight pushbuttons on my form as shown below, The
> code has been
> cut and paste 8 times to hide the eight buttons ranging from A to H.
> This is O.K
> But when it comes to dispalying them by
"Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:44683@palm-dev-forum...
> This is fine, but this adds the appointment AT THE END of the database
> (dmMaxRecordIndex).
Here's an idea: Do a sysAppLaunchCmdSyncNotify sub-launch of Datebook to get
it to re-sort its database when you're done. Or, if
Hi,
I am converting Palm OS 3.1 application to run on 3.5 platform. One of the
issues is that
OS 3.5 generates frmUpdateEvent every time you return to form, popup Alert
or open on-screen keyboard. I am
using frmUpdateEvent only for specific tasks, but now it is triggered no
matter if I want it
o
I'm very much new to the programming using the Internet libraries...
How can i Put a XML file from my palm to a specific Directory on my web
server..
If any one can help, then i will be very thankfull to him.
Thanks,
Saharsh
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On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Bradly J. Barton wrote:
> Please excuse this question if it is easily found.. but I couldn't figure
> out where to begin to look for the answer..
>
> I am exporting some information to a memopad record and I want to make sure
> I don't create something that is too big to fit i
Hi,
I have custom bitmap where user can draw something. In OS 3.5:
If user tryes to leave FormAlert pops up asking about saving his work. When
user
closes FormAlert bitmap image is gone although rest of form objects were
restored.
Since bitmap custom drawing was not saved into database it is gone
Moving the screen under OS 3.1 is easy. Telling the PalmOS to send its
draw functions to the new screen is hard.
Is there a direct way (such as a secret extern) to alter where the
PalmOS thinks the screen is? (I know in OS 3.5 there was a concept of a
Screen Window / Screen Bitmap but I don't k
> I am pretty new to the Palm OS but I have searched the knowledge base and
> the archives but I can't seem to get rid of this one error when I delete a
> database. I receive this error immediately after I call DmDeleteDatabase.
> If I click "continue" the program finishes and the database i
Hello all,
I need to display a string rotated in 90 deg Anti-Clock wise so you can
read it with the palm turned 90 degrees clockwise
how can I do this in pre 3.5?
must I get the raw data of a window (where the text is) and somehow
transform it into another?
what is the fastest way?
Anybody
I'm trying to write a parser where the data has some of the Extended
ASCII characters. Does
someone know how I can check my buffer.
if (buffer[index] == '\0193') does not seem to work.
Thanks
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Hello,
I am using the WinDrawTruncChars function to take advantage of the maxWidth
logic. It does truncate the strings, but places a rectangular box symbol in
place of the ellipse. I'm using stdFont. Are ellipses supported in only
certain fonts?
Thanks for the ongoing support.
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Actually, this seems to be a classic "end of the Empire move."
Back when the BeOS was in their heyday, their stock hit $35 a share, and their
developer support was as good as Palm's is now (back
when Palm support was much more primitive.)
But once BeOS prospects really started to really decline
"OmniSoftSystems" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:44714@palm-dev-forum...
>
> Hello,
>
> I am using the WinDrawTruncChars function to take advantage of the
maxWidth
> logic. It does truncate the strings, but places a rectangular box
symbol in
> place of the ellipse. I'm using stdFont.
Hi there,
After having much difficulty with my version of Constructor 1.6 and the 2
required dll's PalmRezPostLinker.dll and PPalmRez.dll which I obtained form
the 4.0 SDK CD from PalmSource. The Metroworks engineer suggested I upgrade
to the latest version which has several bug fixes.
However
Didn't Palm have some incentive to NOT have this be a public forum because they didn't
want anyone but registered developers with
signed NDAs finding out about this stuff?
If we moved this entire forum to DejaNews, would we be in violation of our NDAs?
And don't forget - we give Palm free beta
At 9:42 PM -0400 4/3/01, DIAMOND JEFF wrote:
>I just got a new notification from Palm about the Developer Exchange.
>Now, I realize Palm wants to encourage as many people as possible to use
>the exchange.
>But in their most recent bulletin, they made it sound like their goal is
>to move everyone o
I'm pretty sure you can make a memo pad record about as long as you
want. You should check the sources just to be sure. But if you
actually want it to HotSync, it has to be 4096 bytes or less.
DeAnna
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From: Bradly J. Barton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday
At 3:02 PM +0100 4/4/01, Toby Boreham wrote:
>>>On Palm OS 3.3 this hangs up the system. Does anyone have any ideas?
>>
>>SysTaskDelay(time * ticksPerTenth);
>>
>>is the problem. SysTaskDelay wants a number of ticks. Why do you multiple it by
>time, and what value is time set to?
>>
>>Also, if yo
>It does truncate the strings, but places a rectangular box symbol in
>place of the ellipse. I'm using stdFont. Are ellipses supported in only
>certain fonts?
I found that it doesn't work for me under OS 3.1 with the standard
font, but seems to work fine with later versions. Are you using 3.1?
Does Palm have a plan to publish the OS 4.0 source?
Thanks
horace
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> As a result it screws up most of my program.
>Is there any way to stop it?
You don't need to "stop" it, just catch the event and return true without
doing anything to "pretend" its been handled. I doubt that's the right
thing to do in most cases, but you definitely can do it.
However this ra
Do you think they have all they need now? I'm sure they are a stronger
product now than before due to the developers activity and they can afford a
little weeding. They justify this as the cost for band width etc. And they
know people have enough skin in the game they can't walk away for 100
bu
So, I do a FrmDoDialog on a Modal form (Modal and Save Behind checked). On
it I have some text fields and some labels. If I fill these out, click OK,
all is well (the form behind redraws and I can get data from the form before
calling FmrDeleteForm on it).
However, if I prepopulate the text field
In Palm OS 3.5 when I input data into the text field using Palm screen
keyboard it
gives me error: Field.c, Line:5321 Bad field selection.
Actually there is only one text field in the form, created with constructor,
usable, editable.
What is wrong?
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>Anyway, 4k is the limit, if you want to view and edit them in MemoPad.
>There is not this limit, insofaras, a limit on the database. It is a
>limit within the MemoPad application.
AFAIK it is ALSO a limit in the conduit, so simply recompiling the app,
which would be more or less trivial, won't
> I'm pretty sure you can make a memo pad record about as long as you
> want.
Up to 65505 bytes anyway (for OS3.0 +), see SyncMaxRemoteRecSize.
> actually want it to HotSync, it has to be 4096 bytes or less.
Yes, the conduit code restricts the size of the memo.
Cheers,
Jim Cooper
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Philip Sheard wrote:
> Can I print to a Canon BJC-50 from a Handspring Visor Platinum, using the
> IrCOMM support in the New Serial Manager? The BJC-50 supports LMP and LPT.
>
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Here's my proposal for future Palm OS support:
Level 1 (free)
- palm-dev-forum
- Emulator (but provide your own ROM)
- KnowledgeBase of FAQs etc
Level 2 (administrative cost, say US $100 p.a.)
- seeding programs
- newsletters
- source code
- debug and seeding ROMs
- access to internal
At 3:09 PM -0400 4/4/01, Anthony Randazzo wrote:
>I'm trying to write a parser where the data has some of the Extended
>ASCII characters. Does someone know how I can check my buffer.
>
>if (buffer[index] == '\0193') does not seem to work.
You do realize the '\###' notation uses octal, not decimal
At 12:19 PM -0600 4/4/01, Vitaly_Romanishko wrote:
>I have custom bitmap where user can draw something. In OS 3.5:
>If user tryes to leave FormAlert pops up asking about saving his work. When
>user
>closes FormAlert bitmap image is gone although rest of form objects were
>restored.
>Since bitmap c
Be careful here - are you using a release ROM or a debug ROM?
When I switched from the debug to the release rom I stopped getting ANY frmUpdate
events because the pop up alerts and keyboards
saved and restored your form without needing a frmUpdateEvent...
You may go though a lot of preparation
> So, I do a FrmDoDialog on a Modal form (Modal and Save Behind checked). On
> it I have some text fields and some labels. If I fill these out, click OK,
> all is well (the form behind redraws and I can get data from the form
before
> calling FmrDeleteForm on it).
>
> However, if I prepopulate the
Sorry for the excitement, Jim. ;)
But apparently, the notice Palm sent out wasn't very clear as to which aspects of
support were going away, so I'm glad it got cleared up. And the Palm Dev Group got a
lot of appreciation plugs in the process.
I'm still amazed that I only see 200 emails a day
"DIAMOND JEFF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:44754@palm-dev-forum...
> You may go though a lot of preparation that is never used on the actual
device.
...except when memory is low - as Jim just pointed out in another thread.
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