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

2002-04-09 Thread Ben Combee
In article 83202@palm-dev-forum, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... 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

PPP Connection ! Please Help !

2002-04-09 Thread Keh Yong
Good days, all Did anyone experience or know how to setup the PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) bween Palm m505 (Palm OS) and Windows (95 and 98 and 2000 Professional) va the USB cable ? I try it but it fail because it required the Serial Cable (COM) but i need to use the USB (to save the company

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

2002-04-09 Thread Clifford Jones
Ben, I was looking at the api and it looks like I could use a AddEventToQueue call to place an event in into the queue. Is a user defined event above the 0x6000 considered a virtual key event? Are you saying that is not possible while inside an interrupt to place a user defined event onto the

How to end an alert

2002-04-09 Thread c.d. jansen
Hello, My appl uses considerable time sorting records after a hotsync. I like to inform the user about what is happening. I want to use an alert. The user can use the OK button, or wait till the sorting is over. When ready, the message have to disappears. I can't find in the examples how to

Re: How to end an alert

2002-04-09 Thread ViKaS.LaKKaSheTTi
I think u shud show a Modal form without an ok button. When u r work starts show that form. on finish of work post an frmCloseEvent into the event queue. Do lemme know after trying it whether i am rite. Regards, Vikas Lakkashetti - Original Message - From: c.d. jansen [EMAIL

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

2002-04-09 Thread Ben Combee
In article 83209@palm-dev-forum, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... I was looking at the api and it looks like I could use a AddEventToQueue call to place an event in into the queue. Look at the description of EvtEnqueueKey -- this is the only event handling call that disables interrupts while it

Communication issue from my friend

2002-04-09 Thread Keh Yong
Hi I get your email address from one of the communication forum. Sorry for interrupt u and I have I can give permission to ask u something in the connection and communication issue. I am being assign to develop an application on the PDA. I decide to use the MIDP for Palm (JAVA) and Palm

palm os development tools

2002-04-09 Thread Low Pui Kuen
Hi, May I know is there any website that compares or evaluate the different types of palm os development tools? Thank you Low Pui Kuen _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos:

Re: How to end an alert

2002-04-09 Thread Joe
--- c.d. jansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't find in the examples how to simulate the pushing of the OK button. CtlHitControl Purpose: Simulate tapping a control. This function adds a ctlSelectEvent to the event queue. __ Do You Yahoo!?

Re: How to end an alert

2002-04-09 Thread Dave Lippincott
I would use my own dialog that looks like an alert and in my timing code call CtlHitControl to simulate tapping 'OK'. - Original Message - From: c.d. jansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 6:06 AM Subject: How to end an alert

Re: How to detect Sony's JogAssist

2002-04-09 Thread Mike McCollister
Lonnie, Thanks for the info. I'm messing around with this now and I'm not sure if it will work since I am trying to detect this via a hack. Regards, Mike McCollister --- Lonnie Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Mike McCollister wrote: Does anyone know how to detect

Re: Chunk Overlocked

2002-04-09 Thread Matt Hebley
At 06:40 PM 8/4/2002 -0700, you wrote: 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

Re: palm os development tools

2002-04-09 Thread Rob Bell
Low Pui Kuen wrote: Hi, May I know is there any website that compares or evaluate the different types of palm os development tools? Thank you Low Pui Kuen This may not include every option, but it shows you some popular choices: http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/core.html HTH, Rob

Security auto lock: What can block it?

2002-04-09 Thread Mark A. Peters
I've noticed that the Palm OS security auto lock feature doesn't work when my application is running. I'm running on Palm OS 4.0 (a Clie, but hopefully that is irrelevant), and it is when the auto lock is set to happen after a set time period of inactivity that it doesn't work (it works if auto

profiler fatal error

2002-04-09 Thread Nick Hoggard
When I do a profile with POSE then dump the results, the emulator crashes with a fatal internal error, with no error information. A profile txt file is produced but it has only headings and no data. Anyone know what the problem could be? I'm using POSE 3.4

High density screens / Palm OS 5

2002-04-09 Thread Daniel Morais
Hi ! I have done some tests with the latest version of Palm OS Simulator ( dr9 ) and while it seems I had no trouble to initialize a 320x320 16 bpp screen, I was unable to do something with it, as WinCreateOffScreenWindow failed... First call was fine, but the second one failed with a

Debugging hangs device

2002-04-09 Thread Fergal Moran
Hi I am using CW7 with the latest updates to debug and SDK4 application on an m505 through the serial cradle with all optimizations off. The application downloads to the device no problems but everytime it hits a breakpoint the application hangs on the device and requires a manual reset. Is

RE: PPP Connection between PalmOS and Window

2002-04-09 Thread Scott Johnson
From: Stan Chee Keh Yong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Did anyone experience or know how to setup the PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) between Palm m505 (Palm OS) and Windows (95 and 98 and 2000 Professional) via the USB cable ? I see you got no response to this earlier, probably because nobody

BmpCompress Error?

2002-04-09 Thread Huy T Phan
Hello, Using BmpCompress to compress a screen image then uncompress it to display, I found out that if the bottom five pixel rows were all blanks, the row above them will bleed onto them. That is, the row above is unwantedly repeated til the end. The compression type could be either scan

Re: High density screens / Palm OS 5

2002-04-09 Thread Aaron Ardiri
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Daniel Morais wrote: I have done some tests with the latest version of Palm OS Simulator ( dr9 ) and while it seems I had no trouble to initialize a 320x320 16 bpp screen, I was unable to do something with it, as WinCreateOffScreenWindow failed... First call was fine, but

Support for Float and Double

2002-04-09 Thread Venugopal B
Hi All, We have a PRC application currently supporting devices running on Palm OS 3.0 and later. We also have a conduit and a desktop application. Our desktop application uses some float and double types and the PRC needs to be updated with these fields. Also we would like to support the PRC on

RE: How to end an alert

2002-04-09 Thread Danny Epstein
My appl uses considerable time sorting records after a hotsync. I like to inform the user about what is happening. I want to use an alert. The HotSync app has its own progress dialog that shows Cleaning up while it does the sysAppLaunchCmdSyncNotify launches. Putting up your own dialog on top

Re: Support for Float and Double

2002-04-09 Thread Steve Mann
At 11:43 AM -0700 4/9/02, Venugopal B wrote: Can anyone please tell me whether support for Floats and Doubles is provided for all the Palm OS's including Palm OS 2.0? What kind of support are you looking for? There are float and double types. If you want basic ASCII--float conversion routines,

Bug in the Simulator?

2002-04-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, I was doing some testing today, and I think I've found a bug in the Simulator, related to the modifiers field for keyDown events. If I press Shift + UpArrow in the emulator, I get: event-data.keyDown.chr = 30 event-data.keyDown.modifiers = 5 but if I do it in the simulator, I get:

Re: Support for Float and Double

2002-04-09 Thread Dave Lippincott
I've been using floats and doubles since '97, support has been there since the beginning. What do you mean by updating fields? Via a conduit or in the PDB directly? Any particular reason you have to support OS2.0? There are very few 2.0 devices still in use (at least that haven't been

How do I update a field handle on the 'calling' form from the form loaded by FrmPopupForm?

2002-04-09 Thread Geoff Thompson
The Popup form is a helper form that helps edit field contents on the calling form. After the user is 'done' with the helper, they click a done button, which triggers the FrmReturnToForm(0). Can I 'refresh' the calling form prior to the FrmReturnToForm(0), or is there an event I can trap

Mult Tables

2002-04-09 Thread Edward P. Ross
I have been seeing weird things regarding a couple of tables on my form. I searched through the archives at escribe and I found an entry that I think can confirm this strange behavior. The message I read was saying that when having multiple tables on a form the tblSelectEvent is acting

RE: Mult Tables

2002-04-09 Thread Peter Epstein
Some form objects support a usable bit. If a form object isn't usable, it won't accept any events, and it won't appear on the screen. This is conceptually quite different than simply erasing and drawing a form object. Erasing the object will make it disappear from the screen, but it won't keep it

RE: PPP Connection between PalmOS and Window

2002-04-09 Thread Borislav Kolev
Well, we managed to get our own PPP replacement protocol working on both sides - Palm and Windows - and it seems to be fine. There are quite a few gotchas, though, and I wouldn't call the solution cleanbut at least satisfactory working. - bobby -Original Message- From: Scott

RE: PPP Connection between PalmOS and Window

2002-04-09 Thread Scott Johnson
From: Borislav Kolev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Well, we managed to get our own PPP replacement protocol working on both sides - Palm and Windows - and it seems to be fine. Is there any work required on the Palm side? I'd hope that the OS's built-in PPP interface would automatically try to

Re: profiler fatal error

2002-04-09 Thread Keith Rollin
At 9:56 AM -0700 4/9/02, Nick Hoggard wrote: When I do a profile with POSE then dump the results, the emulator crashes with a fatal internal error, with no error information. A profile txt file is produced but it has only headings and no data. Anyone know what the problem could be? I'm using

NetLib and EvtResetAutoOffTimer() (was Re: Procedure alarms)

2002-04-09 Thread Bob Whiteman
Thanks for all the help Danny. Following your advice I was able to get procedure alarms working, along with proper deletion protection. Unfortunately something is still calling EvtResetAutoOffTimer(). I've done a search through the OS source code and found all occurrences of

If you have time please read and reply

2002-04-09 Thread Richard Bell
I'm working on my final paper for my masters and wanted to take a straw poll on current industry software engineering practices. If you could provide me the following information: What industry do you work in? What part of the country/world do you work in? Your level

RE: NetLib and EvtResetAutoOffTimer() (was Re: Procedure alarms)

2002-04-09 Thread Danny Epstein
The major suspect is NetLib, since Palm doesn't release the source code for it. Do any of the functions in NetLib call EvtResetAutoOffTimer()? Yup: it calls EvtResetAutoOffTimer. I think it's trying to prevent the device from turning off while it's waiting for data to come in over the serial

RE: PPP Connection between PalmOS and Window

2002-04-09 Thread Borislav Kolev
I think I wasn't quite clear or correct in my answer and I apologize for it. We didn't actually implement PPP server, we implemented a simple proxy for sending/receiving HTTP requests over the USB port; proxy client on the Windows side receives the requests and makes the actual Internet

Re: High density screens / Palm OS 5

2002-04-09 Thread Daniel Morais
Hi Aaron ! On Tuesday 09 April 2002 19:48, Aaron Ardiri wrote: maybe we are not supposed to allocate two 320x320 16bpp windows? :P Yes, maybe... ...and maybe Palm OS 5 should not be presented as an OS allowing to use high density screens ! there are other ways to do this if there is no

Re: High density screens / Palm OS 5

2002-04-09 Thread Aaron Ardiri
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Daniel Morais wrote: Hi Aaron ! hey daniel :) On Tuesday 09 April 2002 19:48, Aaron Ardiri wrote: maybe we are not supposed to allocate two 320x320 16bpp windows? :P Yes, maybe... and maybe Palm OS 5 should not be presented as an OS allowing to use high density

Re: High density screens / Palm OS 5

2002-04-09 Thread Matt Disher (TiBook)
As far as I can tell it does what it's designed to do... Which is lock the screen and prevent updates to the screen for things that take a long time to update (say a complicated table that the end users sees refresh it's contents column by column, row by row) Locking it gives you a whamo-all at

Re: High density screens / Palm OS 5

2002-04-09 Thread Daniel Morais
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 01:57, Matt Disher (TiBook) wrote: As far as I can tell it does what it's designed to do... Which is lock the screen and prevent updates to the screen for things that take a long time to update (say a complicated table that the end users sees refresh it's contents

RE: High density screens / Palm OS 5

2002-04-09 Thread Danny Epstein
Let me see if I can put this debate to rest... WinScreenLock isn't useful for page flipping in games. We've discussed this before. However, it is useful for delaying screen updates so that they appear all at once. This is normally done with a pair of calls to WinScreenLock. The first copies the

Re: High density screens / Palm OS 5

2002-04-09 Thread Daniel Morais
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 01:47, Aaron Ardiri wrote: palm doesn't care about gaming/multimedia :) Do they realize why Sony devices are so appreciated ? Wasn't Palm OS 4 ( and then Palm OS 5 ) supposed to include some multimedia features ? You mean by using FtrPtrNew, for exemple ? :)

Re: High density screens / Palm OS 5

2002-04-09 Thread Matt Disher (TiBook)
Agreed, I did not intend to argue it's actually method for doing what it does. I was just answering your ? as to what one would use if for. I use it for it's advertised purpose to 'lock/freeze' the display until I'm done drawin then get a one-shot draw effect. For that it works, and it works

Re: High density screens / Palm OS 5

2002-04-09 Thread Daniel Morais
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 02:44, Danny Epstein wrote: WinScreenLock isn't useful for page flipping in games. It isn't actually, but it can be : just allow us to use the pointer returned by WinScreenLock and we can take advantage of hardware flipping ! :) ( which is working fine on most

Fake GPS Signals to POSE

2002-04-09 Thread Dharini Iyengar
Is there any availible method to send fake GPS signals to the POSE. I know this is a realtively simple method to write, but would like to use some available method if it already exists. Thank you Regards Dharini Iyengar -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to

Re: Fake GPS Signals to POSE

2002-04-09 Thread Chris Tutty
From: Dharini Iyengar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any availible method to send fake GPS signals to the POSE. I know this is a realtively simple method to write, but would like to use some available method if it already exists. We were planning to write a small C or VB app that copied text to

Re: Separating DB from app

2002-04-09 Thread Ron Nicholson
Oliver Steinmeier writes: Then a newer version of the app is released. What strategy should I follow so that the data is not lost when the user replaces the app with the new version? Todd, I don't think the databases of an application will get deleted if you replace the application with