Re: Cygwin Path and SDK Setup

2002-01-19 Thread John Marshall
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 07:49:53PM -0500, David Whitehurst wrote: > I loaded Cygwin (GCC),PRC-Tools,Pilrc, and SDK3.5 on Windows 2000. > [...] In fact I can run a sample app and type "make" and it blows up > with... unrecognized option -remap (Precompile). This indicates that it can't find the r

Re: How to use Yield Cycles of Sync Manager?

2002-01-19 Thread Jim Cooper
> I DO call YieldCycles. But it NEVER works. Ever... And I call it, and it always works, and Dave calls it, and it works for him too. > Try the simple loop in my previous post. It wont work. I'll bet you a > dollar. You owe me a dollar then, as that's pretty much how all my two way syncing

Advice needed: browsing of large list

2002-01-19 Thread Marco Pantaleoni
Hi, I'm new to Palm OS programming, and I need to implement browsing functionality for a DB with a large number of records (about 20,000). The records should be displayed as a scrollable list of strings. Clearly I don't want to allocate storage in memory for all the strings. I'm wondering if The R

Re: A bunch of new questions

2002-01-19 Thread Vineet Gupta
i am having a problem when executing a link from a web clipping application. it is giving nonexistent DNS please guide me to solve this problem thanks in advance - Original Message - From: "Danny Epstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, J

Need your Help

2002-01-19 Thread shailesh k phalle
Hi I read your suggestions but i want OPEN SOURCE CODE in vc++ or c Can you please suggest any site for that. Plz send useful site that i can refer OK BYE!! -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support

Re: Advice needed: browsing of large list

2002-01-19 Thread Oliver Steinmeier
> I need to implement browsing functionality for > a DB with a large number of records (about 20,000). > The records should be displayed as a scrollable > list of strings. I think technically you can go with either a list or a table. Some pros and cons I see - table requires more coding - tab

RE: Cygwin Path and SDK Setup

2002-01-19 Thread David Whitehurst
Thanks everyone, I successfully did a make-all for one of the sample apps. I had an old Cygwin and the gcc stuff was out of date I think. I had to correct my mounts on cygwin and I learned a lot from the "spec" file deep in the PRC-Tools directory structure. Again thanks, David L. Whitehurst

Re: Advice needed: browsing of large list

2002-01-19 Thread Steve Mann
At 12:28 PM +0100 1/19/02, Marco Pantaleoni wrote: >I'm wondering if The Right Thing is using a List control (without >actually allocating the strings for all the records, but by resorting >to LstSetDrawFunction()) I do that all the time. It's quick and easy to set up and debug. Regards, Steve

Re: Want to Buy An Access point and SpringBoard Module for Handspring Visor

2002-01-19 Thread Brian Smith
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Atul Shingade wrote: > Well, I am not sure about which access point should I use. I shall be > buying SpringPort Wireless Ethernet module (ref. SWE1130). I don't really think it matters, does it? I mean, most (probably not all) 802.11b devices are compatible with each othe

Re: Horizontal Scrollbar

2002-01-19 Thread Scott Dreslinski
I have an application with horizontal scroll bars, and like Chris said, make the width greater than the height. I use codewarrior, and I am currently looking at this working on an OS 3.3 device, and I am pretty positive this also worked on OS 3.0 before I upgraded the device. -- Scott Dreslinski

Re: How to use Yield Cycles of Sync Manager?

2002-01-19 Thread Ben Combee
> I know some people had a problem with USB syncing and time outs a while > ago (the details escape me at the moment), but AFAIK that's been fixed. The USB timeout was a problem with the original 4.0 desktop software -- it was fixed in the 4.01 version. -- For information on using the Palm De

GetCharAttr ...

2002-01-19 Thread David Whitehurst
Hi: Does anyone quickly know of a direct replacement function for GetCharAttr(); beyond 3.1 SDK? The header CharAttr.h refers to TextMgr.h but this header does not exist in 3.1. Anyhow, I have an old application that I am trying to get beyond a compilation problem, e.g. IsDigit(GetCharAttr(),c)

Database creator

2002-01-19 Thread Phong Nguyen
Hi, What will be the impact if the creator ID of resource database (application) and record database are the same? __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ -- For information on using the Palm Dev

Re: Database creator

2002-01-19 Thread Brian Smith
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Phong Nguyen wrote: > What will be the impact if the creator ID of resource database > (application) and record database are the same? 1) The sizes of both databases are combined when viewing that information in Launcher. 2) The record database will be deleted when the a

Re: GetCharAttr ...

2002-01-19 Thread Ben Combee
"David Whitehurst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:73982@palm-dev-forum... > > Hi: > > Does anyone quickly know of a direct replacement function for GetCharAttr(); > beyond 3.1 SDK? The header CharAttr.h refers to TextMgr.h but this header > does not exist in 3.1. Anyhow, I have an old

Changing form layout dynamically

2002-01-19 Thread Oliver Steinmeier
In my application I have to dynamically change the layout of parts of a form based on user input (e.g., user selects a value from poplist, which changes the available fields below). I can accomplish this by trapping the poplist event and then use FrmShowObject and FrmHideObject to individually sh

Re: Want to Buy An Access point and SpringBoard Module for Handspring Visor

2002-01-19 Thread Max Campos
FYI - I have that exact combination and they work great together. I've also used the Xircom with one of the Compaq access points at work, again w/o trouble. Just so you know, the Xircom card is _REALLY_ slow. I think it's theoretical maximum is only about 100KB per second, though in practice

Re: How to use Yield Cycles of Sync Manager?

2002-01-19 Thread James Barwick
Hence my problem. I've never "tested" yieldcycles on serial. I've always developed/tested using my visor. My HotSync is _still_ 4.0 not 4.01. Nice to know it's broken. James Ben Combee wrote: >>I know some people had a problem with USB syncing and time outs a >> >while > >>ago (the details e

access global variables from other form

2002-01-19 Thread Low Pui Kuen
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access global variables from other form

2002-01-19 Thread Low Pui Kuen
Hi, Anyone knows how to access global variables from other form? Thanks in advance :) _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsu

which is faster, bitmaps or drawing?

2002-01-19 Thread Todd Walk
Which is faster, loading and displaying a small bitmap from a resource, or drawing it? I've got a lot of little images anywhere from 2x3 pixels to 3x5 pixels to display. -- Todd Walk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http:

Re: which is faster, bitmaps or drawing?

2002-01-19 Thread James Barwick
Bitmap resources are MUCH faster IMHO. Really, they are. Todd Walk wrote: >Which is faster, loading and displaying a small bitmap from >a resource, or drawing it? I've got a lot of little images >anywhere from 2x3 pixels to 3x5 pixels to display. > -- For information on using the Palm Dev

Re: which is faster, bitmaps or drawing?

2002-01-19 Thread Joe
Todd Walk wrote: > > Which is faster, loading and displaying a small bitmap > > from a resource, or drawing it? I've got a lot of > > little images anywhere from 2x3 pixels to 3x5 pixels > > to display. James Barwick wrote: > Bitmap resources are MUCH faster IMHO. Really, they are. And if

Re: access global variables from other form

2002-01-19 Thread Joe
--- Low Pui Kuen wrote: > > Anyone knows how to access global variables from > other form? > Yes. If a variable is global, it is available globally. :) The only thing I can think of that could be causing a problem is if you have the code for one form in one file, and the code for the other f