Re: sudden problem: Connection attempt failed.

2002-07-12 Thread Ben Combee
In article <91018@palm-dev-forum>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > > problem solved. manually dragging and dropping the .prc into the emulator > revealed a more helpful error message: segment too large. > > moral of the story: "Connection attempt failed." may mean you have an > oversized segment.

Re: Can't get Handspring into debug mode, help!

2002-07-12 Thread Ben Combee
In article <90965@palm-dev-forum>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > > In another reply to this post I saw a remark that palm's USB driver doesn't > support debug mode. > > I'm getting ready to test an app on a m125 which seems to have only a USB > cradle. How can I debug on this device? I've been

Re: sudden problem: Connection attempt failed.

2002-07-12 Thread Aaron Boyd
problem solved. manually dragging and dropping the .prc into the emulator revealed a more helpful error message: segment too large. moral of the story: "Connection attempt failed." may mean you have an oversized segment. "Aaron Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:91017@palm-dev-fo

sudden problem: Connection attempt failed.

2002-07-12 Thread Aaron Boyd
Anyone else ever have this problem? Suddenly I'm always getting "Connection attempt failed. Please try again." when I try to run/debug a SPECIFIC project in CodeWarrior 8.2 using the Emulator. Bizarre that this problem only arrises with the one project -- all other projects work fine. I have o

RE: Can't get Handspring into debug mode, help!

2002-07-12 Thread Craig Belson
well, if your case was all sorts of different hues and such, then i guess that would be a... hold on... *puts on flame retardant outfit and grabs rotten vegetable/fruit shield* a hack of a different color... *waits for the collective groan from the list* -C --- Dave Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How do I back up an entire Palm device?

2002-07-12 Thread Craig Belson
...slow hotsync? as in what it does the first time you ever back it up to that computer, or when you wipe the palm _totally_ clean? -C --- Jeff Ishaq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm brainstorming how to back up a Palm device. Can > anybody see > anything I'm missing here? > > 1) Use DmGetD

Pasting in the Palm OS 5 Simulator

2002-07-12 Thread Jaxo, Inc.
In the old Palm OS Emulator, I used to be able to paste into fields from the Windows clipboard. The Palm OS 5 Simulator does nto seem to support this. Is this correct, or is there some settins that I might have missed? Thanks, Joe -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to

RE: Can't get Handspring into debug mode, help!

2002-07-12 Thread Dave Brown
Ok, so I used the wrong form of dying! I was pissed and wanted to get to bed before I threw my Handspring at the wall. :-) Dave > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe > Malone > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 10:27 PM > To: Palm Develop

Re: minus sign in numeric field

2002-07-12 Thread Dave Lippincott
Get Palm to fix it. I was told this was on the list of items to fix for OS 3.3, then OS 3.5 then OS 4.0 (well you get the idea, guess its not a high priority bug) I've added a '-/+' button next to the field in the past to allow negative number entry. The bug only prevents Graffiti or keyboard i

How do I back up an entire Palm device?

2002-07-12 Thread Jeff Ishaq
I'm brainstorming how to back up a Palm device. Can anybody see anything I'm missing here? 1) Use DmGetDatabase() to index through all the databases on the device and store them somewhere 2) Use the FtrGetByIndex() to record all the featuers that exist on the device and store them somewhere

Re: minus sign in numeric field

2002-07-12 Thread Steve Mann
>is there a better way to get numeric field to accept minus sign than >to intercept keyDownEvent and insert it into the field manually? You can also set the field up as non-numeric and block everything you don't want. Regards, Steve Mann -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums

minus sign in numeric field

2002-07-12 Thread htn888
Hi, is there a better way to get numeric field to accept minus sign than to intercept keyDownEvent and insert it into the field manually? Thanks, ht __ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experie

Re: Screen Capture using WinGetBitmap- Viewing the BMP on desktop

2002-07-12 Thread Joe Malone
--- Jayanarayanan M N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to capture image from a form on a palm and > display back it on browser. > ... > I can view the image back on Palm(on same Form). but , > when I try to view on Windows 2000(using GIMP or MS > Paint) it gives format error. Fails to open

Screen Capture using WinGetBitmap- Viewing the BMP on desktop

2002-07-12 Thread Jayanarayanan M N
Hi All, I am trying to capture image from a form on a palm and display back it on browser. Here is outline. =>WinCreateOffscreenWindow- Create an offscreen window =>WinGetBitmap()- get bitmap =>BmpSize() -to get size of bitmap. =>Save bitmap to a local database. Send this to enterprise database(

RE: Java or C++ for Conduit

2002-07-12 Thread Paul Gibson
Dave, Just to give you my 2 cents . . . I would use C++. Or rather, I do use C++, using VC++ 6.0 with the generic conduit classes I was able to very quickly create a working conduit. It was my first one, and with the sales conduit example in the Palm Programming books from O'Reilly was able to

RE: SelectDay problem found!

2002-07-12 Thread Scott Johnson
From: Eric J. Janus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Are there any other "known" form ID's that shouldn't be used? > I don't want to keep running into problems as I add more forms. Yes, IDs of 1 and higher are reserved by Palm. > I can't recall reading anything-anywhere about restricted form ID'

SelectDay problem found!

2002-07-12 Thread Eric J. Janus
Most of the day today I've been working on a bug that's found its way into our application. It a rather large application (500k+). We frequently use the SelectDay() function to allow the user to select a date using the "built-in" Palm OS calendar. However, recently users have been getting a "Fo

Java or C++ for Conduit

2002-07-12 Thread Dave Brown
I posted this to the conduit group and thought I'd try here also to see if anyone here has had any experiences with Java/C++ for conduit development. I will be developing my conduit soon and wanted opinions on whether to do it in Java or C++. I already have some Java dev to do on the sync PC so

RE: Can't get Handspring into debug mode, help!

2002-07-12 Thread Dave Brown
Hmmm a spell checker? Dieing is a valid spelling (http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=dieing) :-) Thanks for the advice. I already had DebugPrefs, but wasn't using it correctly. I wasn't resetting it after choosing the USB option. Works now. > Is this a separate question? Do you mean that you in

Re: passing data back from menu event handler, to caller

2002-07-12 Thread Joe Malone
--- Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes modifying say a static declared in the form event > handler, that called the menu event handler would be > ideal. > > But if one can't pass the menu handler any data I have > no way to pass it a pointer to the static or some > such. > I am confused

Re: best way to debug a 'changed emulated program counter' ?

2002-07-12 Thread Joe Malone
--- Martin Elzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... but from what it looks like to me now, my problem isn't > due to an incorrect function pointer, so it seems likely that > there's a write past the end of a global array. Small clarification: *local* array. The "changed emulated program counte

Re: Can't get Handspring into debug mode, help!

2002-07-12 Thread Dave Lippincott
You could always get a serial cable. However I'm pretty sure you can debug a Palm branded hand held over USB (with the latest Palm USB drivers installed). The message you saw was concerning debugging a Handspring Visor over USB. http://www.palm.com/products/palmm125/accessories.html#peripherals

Re: Can't get Handspring into debug mode, help!

2002-07-12 Thread Craig Belson
Well, I don't think it would be completely unreasonable to think that Palm has a similar utility, but I can't say for sure - when I went through all this, there was myself and one other handspring user, there was one clie, and the rest were all 3c's. Of course, if you just wanna see if it works,

Re: Can't get Handspring into debug mode, help!

2002-07-12 Thread Mitch
In another reply to this post I saw a remark that palm's USB driver doesn't support debug mode. I'm getting ready to test an app on a m125 which seems to have only a USB cradle. How can I debug on this device? I've been using the emulator (and CodeWarrior) so far, but am about ready to see if i

CW 7 and 8

2002-07-12 Thread Tan Ying Liang
Hi, What are the extra features in CW8 compare to CW7.Conduit development included? -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: how to deal with .rsrc's that crash Constructor ?

2002-07-12 Thread Mitch
Even though I've only been doing Palm apps a short time, I've given up on Constructor... To get at my .rsrc files, I bought PilRC designer for $29. I got it at www.falch.net. It did a perfect job converting my .rsrc files to .rcp files and now I do all my forms in PilRC source and a couple of

how to deal with .rsrc's that crash Constructor ?

2002-07-12 Thread Martin Elzen
Hi all. This week I've been trying a lot of different things to see if they help with either finding the cause of (or would eliminate by themselves) a POSE-error I'd never seen before. One of the things I tried out was replacing the current Contructor .exe (version 1.6.2) with the one supplied

Re: best way to debug a 'changed emulated program counter' ?

2002-07-12 Thread Martin Elzen
Hi all. I'd like to thank everyone who answered my question. The project I was working on *is* a multi-segment app, but compiling it under either smart or the 32-bit-pointer models doesn't help get rid of the problem. And Joe, that post you found by Ben Combee was exactly the one I'd found in

Re: passing data back from menu event handler, to caller

2002-07-12 Thread Phil
> Is there a way to pass data back from the menu event > handler, other than the true/false handled boolean, > without resorting to using a global? > ... > Is this generally how it's done, or is there a better > way to pass data between event handlers? > >You could use a global variable, an ap