Re: Getting started in wireless development?

2002-10-07 Thread Michael Harrison
Do you have any modems that are compatible with the Sony Clie T series? That's where I'm doing most of my development (although I sanity check on a PalmIII) On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 08:38:42 -0400, "Palm Dev Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Michael, > >Hi. We keep Minstrel modems in stock. They

Re: LIST MEMEORY LEAKS

2002-10-07 Thread Ben Combee
At 18:08 2002-10-7 -0700, you wrote: >I am already calling FrmCloseAllForms() in my AppStop >routine but it seems it behaves differently and does >not do cleanup when AppStop event is called. Whereas >when I jump one form to another it do clean up. Make sure your frmCloseEvent handler does NOT r

Re: Dun and Bradstreet

2002-10-07 Thread Stringer
>Subject: Dun and Bradstreet >From: "Mike Yam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Just curious, it's free to list with them, but is there any inherent >value in doing so? Does it help in sales? Or company credibility? >They've solicited me a couple of times, but I never bothered. Every time they call me

"Debug > Break" grayed out

2002-10-07 Thread Richard Coutts
When running gremlins, my app sometimes hangs at a certain event. I suspect I may have an endless loop. I'd like to be able to break the debug session and find out where the execution is currently, but "Debug > Break" is grayed out. In fact, whenever I run POSE with the debugger on, "Debug > Br

Re: LIST MEMEORY LEAKS

2002-10-07 Thread Lauren B. Robert
Besides calling FrmCloseAllForms() in AppStop, perhaps you can check your whether you have close your database in your dynamic function using DmCloseDatabase() If you are using CW7, you can also press the debug button to see which line causes the error. Hope this helps. Regards, Lauren --

Re: LIST MEMEORY LEAKS

2002-10-07 Thread N
I am already calling FrmCloseAllForms() in my AppStop routine but it seems it behaves differently and does not do cleanup when AppStop event is called. Whereas when I jump one form to another it do clean up. At 17:27 2002-10-7 -0700, you wrote: >If my application has 2 forms, first with List

Re: LIST MEMEORY LEAKS

2002-10-07 Thread Ben Combee
At 17:27 2002-10-7 -0700, you wrote: >If my application has 2 forms, first with List >populated dynamically (using method described in API >Reference pdf page 356-357) and second form contains >few fields for details. When I exit application from >first form I get 1 memory leak but if I exit fr

LIST MEMEORY LEAKS

2002-10-07 Thread N
If my application has 2 forms, first with List populated dynamically (using method described in API Reference pdf page 356-357) and second form contains few fields for details. When I exit application from first form I get 1 memory leak but if I exit from second form, no memory leaks. Please a

Re: FldNewField and "unallocated chunk" errors

2002-10-07 Thread Brian Smith
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Brian Smith wrote: > processing penDown events in the area where the fields would be, so I > could move/show the latter field and post a fldEnterEvent to make it > work. If ctlSelect events are generated for gadgets (not sure about > that), those would probably be better. C

Re: FldNewField and "unallocated chunk" errors

2002-10-07 Thread Brian Smith
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Ben Combee wrote: > There are definitely dynamic control creation problems on Palm OS 3.5 > and earlier... among other things, the code that resizes a form's > storage can corrupt pointers. Search the archives for "PrvFixupPtrs" or > "PrvFixupPointers" to read all the discuss

Re: Notifications!

2002-10-07 Thread Mike McCollister
--- Roberto Sobachi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I stop notifications of other applications when my app is run? Now why would you want to do that? That does not seem very nice. Mike __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, V

Re: Getting started in wireless development?

2002-10-07 Thread Chris Tutty
From: "Michael Harrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > With the exception of the following. Is it possible to get into > wireless palm development (I'm a complete newbie at wireless but only > green at palmos dev) without an initial investment of $1000 or more on > wireless equipment? (yes, I'm on a sho

Re: FldNewField and "unallocated chunk" errors

2002-10-07 Thread Ben Combee
At 19:07 2002-10-7 -0400, you wrote: >On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Ben Combee wrote: > > > How are you setting your field text? If you use FldGetTextPtr or > > FldGetTextHandle, you're OK, as no messages should be posted. There > > aren't too many other field events that could go wrong. > >I'm using FldS

Notifications!

2002-10-07 Thread Roberto Sobachi
How can I stop notifications of other applications when my app is run? -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: FldNewField and "unallocated chunk" errors

2002-10-07 Thread Brian Smith
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Ben Combee wrote: > How are you setting your field text? If you use FldGetTextPtr or > FldGetTextHandle, you're OK, as no messages should be posted. There > aren't too many other field events that could go wrong. I'm using FldSetTextHandle, and FldGetTextHandle to clean up

Re: Negative Number Input

2002-10-07 Thread Oliver
Doug > I have a simple field on a form that I want to > allow the user to enter a numeric value. I have > it marked in Constructor as Numeric. [...] > It doesn't seem to allow them to put the minus > sign in at the beginning of the field. It's come up before -- check out this message thread

RE: LIST MEMEORY LEAKS

2002-10-07 Thread N
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 15:04:59 In API Reference page 356-357 provides details of how dynamic list is populated. But I cannot find any infomation anywhere about HOW to release memory for these type of lists. --

Re: FldNewField and "unallocated chunk" errors

2002-10-07 Thread Ben Combee
At 18:41 2002-10-7 -0400, you wrote: >On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Ben Combee wrote: > > > If you add field, modify, add field, modify, and so on, you'd have > > flcChangedEvents with potentially bad pointers, since inserting the > > later field pointer could invalidate the previous ones. > >I am setting t

Re: FldNewField and "unallocated chunk" errors

2002-10-07 Thread Brian Smith
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Ben Combee wrote: > If you add field, modify, add field, modify, and so on, you'd have > flcChangedEvents with potentially bad pointers, since inserting the > later field pointer could invalidate the previous ones. I am setting the text of the fields I create in the same loo

Re: FldNewField and "unallocated chunk" errors

2002-10-07 Thread Ben Combee
At 15:16 2002-10-7 -0700, you wrote: >At 5:08 PM -0500 10/7/02, Ben Combee wrote: > >At 18:06 2002-10-7 -0400, you wrote: > >>I'll be able to provide a stack trace tomorrow (home from work for the > >>day), but one place I saw it was within the SysGetEvent API, where at some > >>point it calls a f

Re: FldNewField and "unallocated chunk" errors

2002-10-07 Thread Keith Rollin
At 5:08 PM -0500 10/7/02, Ben Combee wrote: >At 18:06 2002-10-7 -0400, you wrote: >>I'll be able to provide a stack trace tomorrow (home from work for the >>day), but one place I saw it was within the SysGetEvent API, where at some >>point it calls a function to validate the form (or window) point

Re: FldNewField and "unallocated chunk" errors

2002-10-07 Thread Ben Combee
At 18:06 2002-10-7 -0400, you wrote: >On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Keith Rollin wrote: > > > Of course, you're in a better position than anyone to tell for sure. > > What do you find out when you click on the Debug button in the error > > dialog? What's making the access and why? > >I'll be able to provid

Re: FldNewField and "unallocated chunk" errors

2002-10-07 Thread Brian Smith
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Keith Rollin wrote: > Of course, you're in a better position than anyone to tell for sure. > What do you find out when you click on the Debug button in the error > dialog? What's making the access and why? I'll be able to provide a stack trace tomorrow (home from work for

RE: LIST MEMEORY LEAKS

2002-10-07 Thread Ben Combee
At 14:59 2002-10-7 -0700, you wrote: >In API Reference page 356-357 provides details of how >dynamic list is populated. > >But I cannot find any infomation anywhere about how to >release memory for these type of lists. Normally, you would do this in the handler for the frmCloseEvent, if you orig

RE: LIST MEMEORY LEAKS

2002-10-07 Thread N
In API Reference page 356-357 provides details of how dynamic list is populated. But I cannot find any infomation anywhere about how to release memory for these type of lists. From: Robert McKenzie (view other messages by this author) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:45:03 --

Re: FldNewField and "unallocated chunk" errors

2002-10-07 Thread Keith Rollin
At 12:38 PM -0400 10/7/02, Brian Smith wrote: >I'm working on a project that will be making heavy use of dynamically >created fields in a form. When using FldNewField, it seems to work >properly with release ROMs, but with a debug ROM I get a ton of >unallocated chunk errors when the OS is trying

Negative Number Input

2002-10-07 Thread Doug Whetham
I have a simple field on a form that I want to allow the user to enter a numeric value. I have it marked in Constructor as Numeric. This restricts the user to enter only numbers and a decimal point, but they sometimes have to enter negative numbers. It doesn't seem to allow them to put the minus s

Re: Keep POSE in my app

2002-10-07 Thread Keith Rollin
At 3:59 PM -0500 10/6/02, Ben Combee wrote: >At 12:53 2002-10-6 -0700, you wrote: >>When gremlins is running, the thing seems to spend a large chunk >>of it's time outside my app, specifically running finds. Is there >>a way to tell gremlins that it can't click outside of the screen >>area? I wa

Hardware ID from Conduit

2002-10-07 Thread Alexander Galkin
Is there any way to get Palm OS 5 device hardware ID from conduit? -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Scrolling menu bar!!!

2002-10-07 Thread Dave Lippincott
Its called programming. Any control beyond what Palm provides natively are custom coded. If you're so interested in what PocketSense has done, ask them. (Although I'd be surprised if they give details so you can re-create their hard work.) - Original Message - From: "Roberto Sobachi" <

Re: Remote Connection to db

2002-10-07 Thread Oliver
> I'm trying to build an application requieres > interaction between an user (with a palm) and a > central database. to acomplish this i thought > about using rpc (remote procedure call) , but i > am not so sure i can do this. I think you'll need to tell us a bit more about your requirements, a

Re: Scrolling menu bar!!!

2002-10-07 Thread Roberto Sobachi
But Silver Screen is more elegant because it has a bar with some Tool icons that slide. You can see an image here: http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=10681820021007120033&p rodID=5512 - Original Message - From: "DE FREMONT Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Develop

RE: LIST MEMEORY LEAKS

2002-10-07 Thread Robert McKenzie
A frmCloseEvent may cause some memory to be released. In particular, if there is memory in a field, it will be released on frmCloseEvent (specifically FrmDeleteForm takes care of this). However in general, FormClose will NOT cause memory to be released. Indeed, the general rule of thumb is:

RE: Scrolling menu bar!!!

2002-10-07 Thread DE FREMONT Vincent
You don't need to add button in the Table, just at a scroll bar on the right or left side of it -Message d'origine- De : Roberto Sobachi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : lundi 7 octobre 2002 22:30 À : Palm Developer Forum Objet : Re: Scrolling menu bar!!! How can I add buttons in a t

Re: Scrolling menu bar!!!

2002-10-07 Thread Roberto Sobachi
How can I add buttons in a table? Thank - Original Message - From: "DE FREMONT Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 10:22 PM Subject: RE: Scrolling menu bar!!! Hi man, keep cool I don't know Silver Screen, but you

RE: Scrolling menu bar!!!

2002-10-07 Thread DE FREMONT Vincent
Hi man, keep cool I don't know Silver Screen, but you can add a scroll bar near a Table and manage it's events to "move" your Table. There's example in Palm OS SDK, or have a look in the forum archives -Message d'origine- De : Roberto Sobachi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : lundi 7 o

LIST MEMEORY LEAKS

2002-10-07 Thread N
*Please correct me if you find any of my assumption wrong. I have this test application contains two forms. Both form contains a list which is populated from database on FrmOpenEvent. I have a function which allocates memory and populates data and Callback function to draw list. When I exit

Scrolling menu bar!!!

2002-10-07 Thread Roberto Sobachi
How can Silver Screen does its Tools Menu scrolling? Does it use Tables? If Tables, how can add buttons in the table? Thank! -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

I cant Compile C++ program with prc-tools

2002-10-07 Thread Piotr Banasiak
When I compile and link I have error from linker no reference to __new__ and to __delete_ . So I have changed compiler options to -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti and put linker options -lnoexcept And then I have got no reference to free and malloc. What should I do to compile C++ program. Typical main

Re: ScrDriverNew.c and Bitmaps on Visor 3.1H2

2002-10-07 Thread Sebastian from Berlin/Germany
answering myself i found the error. There was a bit map that was partly out of the screen (in PilRC coordinates: -2 120 ...) .. ´this works fine on all >OS3.5 Palms and Visors but causes 3.1H2 to crash ... Greets SL, hope to help others with this ... > i have a form containig some bitmaps ...

Re: How to create button?

2002-10-07 Thread Michael
Ok, i am an idiot. Looks like CtlNewControl does this. "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:97635@palm-dev-forum... > > Ok, newbie question. I want to dynamically create a button at runtime, but > don't see how. I see FrmNewLabel and FrmNewBitmap, but how does one create a > new b

How to create button?

2002-10-07 Thread Michael
Ok, newbie question. I want to dynamically create a button at runtime, but don't see how. I see FrmNewLabel and FrmNewBitmap, but how does one create a new button? Is it considered a gadget? Thanks in advance! -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please s

Re: plug-in question

2002-10-07 Thread Chris DiPierro
> Is there any way to write a plug-in? If yes, please > let me know how to do it. A plugin for what exactly? Generally, if you're writing your own app, and want to support plugins, the preferred method is to document a specific CID and DB Type. People would then write a plugin that gets sublaunc

Re: Getting started in wireless development?

2002-10-07 Thread Leon Heller
>From: Michael Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Getting started in wireless development? >Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 06:59:03 -0500 > >The subject line says everything I'm after. > >With the

FldNewField and "unallocated chunk" errors

2002-10-07 Thread Brian Smith
I'm working on a project that will be making heavy use of dynamically created fields in a form. When using FldNewField, it seems to work properly with release ROMs, but with a debug ROM I get a ton of unallocated chunk errors when the OS is trying to use the form pointer. I know that FldNewField

Re: How to turn label bold?

2002-10-07 Thread Hal Mueller
FrmGlueSetLabelFont or CtlGlueSetFont, depending on whether you're referring to a true "Label", or just the text drawn on a control. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

How do a sliding Windows as Silver Screen?

2002-10-07 Thread Roberto Sobachi
I would know how can I do a sliding windows as Silver Screen done! Does it use Tables? How can I add buttons in a table? Please Thank! -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: large DB vs multi small DBs on Palm

2002-10-07 Thread Lucy
Thank you all very much for your input. I guess my best bet is to reorganize the data into larger but fewer records. Thanks again --- Mark Palatucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The data should be structured to 1) minimize the > search time 2) > minimize the hotsync time > > Depending on the com

Re: Getting started in wireless development?

2002-10-07 Thread JB Parrett
If you use the Palm OS Emulator and Palm Simulator, you can do the majority of your coding and debugging work for free: both POSE and PalmSim let you redirect network calls to your host PC/Mac network connection. You can also do IR development (either via Exchange Mgr in loopback mode, or the IR L

Re: How to turn label bold?

2002-10-07 Thread Sebastian from Berlin/Germany
> Hi, > how can I turn label bold? I have a text field (ID=fld_learn) with changing fontsize ... therefore i use this code: //set fontsize FldSetFont(FrmGetObjectPtr(FrmGetActiveForm(),FrmGetObjectIndex (FrmGetActiveForm(), fld_learn)),fontsize); fontsize can be 0-8 fo

Re: Getting started in wireless development?

2002-10-07 Thread Oliver
> The subject line says everything I'm after. Actually, I think it doesn't tell us enough :-) What kind of "wireless development" do you want to do? Do you want to build applications that run on the Palm and connect to something wirelessly? There are a lot of choices, maybe starting with the

Re: converting Windows bitmap into Palm bitmap

2002-10-07 Thread Dave Lippincott
Look in the Palm Knowledge Base. There is a signature example you may be able to convert for your needs. - Original Message - From: "Alexander Galkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 10:08 AM Sub

How to turn label bold?

2002-10-07 Thread Vitaly_Romanishko
Hi, how can I turn label bold? I have tried this: void CtlBoldFont(UInt ctlID,Boolean bold) { ControlType ctl; ControlType * ctlP = GetObjectPtr(ctlID); MemMove (&ctl, ctlP, sizeof (ctl)); if(bold) ctl.font = boldFont; else ctl.font

ScrDriverNew.c and Bitmaps on Visor 3.1H2

2002-10-07 Thread Sebastian from Berlin/Germany
Hey, i have a form containig some bitmaps ... all worked fine but after some refinements users tell me on their Visor (OS 3.1H2) it gives an error in ScrDriverNew.c (wrong parameter) I used the emulator with a visor-Rom and it told me the error occur when launching FrmDrawForm (if i comment this

Re: converting Windows bitmap into Palm bitmap

2002-10-07 Thread Alexander Galkin
I would be very thankful to you if you could send me conduit source code that takes Windows bitmap or any other public image format and write data as Palm bitmap. Thank you once more. Alexander Galkin "Christian Vandendorpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:97516@palm-dev-forum... > >

RE: plug-in question

2002-10-07 Thread Mike Shubeck
Yes, use a shared library. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vo Le > Phu Quy > Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 5:21 AM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: plug-in question > > > Hi all, > > Is there any way to write a plug-in? If

Re: Invalid Window Height

2002-10-07 Thread Gavin Maxwell
Hmm... check that you're doing anything wierd with objects that contain a window object (ie popup lists, menus etc). Trying to resize them to zero height (an attempt to hide?) could potentially cause this problem... Cheers, Gavin. Edward P. Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:97552@p

kKeyboardFormResID

2002-10-07 Thread Paul Nevai
Does anyone know if kKeyboardFormResID is the same in all Palm OS 4 devices or does it vary from maker to maker or from language to language. If you know the answer, that would save me a lots of time. I could only find this out if I loaded all the ROMs I have into POSE and checked it [and I don't

Remote Connection to db

2002-10-07 Thread Luis Fleitas
Hello i am new to all palm application development and I'm trying to build an application requieres interaction between an user (with a palm) and a central database. to acomplish this i thought about using rpc (remote procedure call) , but i am not so sure i can do this. Does anybody know if th

SLIDING TABLE AS SILVER SCREEN HELP!!

2002-10-07 Thread Roberto Sobachi
I would like make a sliding table as Silver Screen. How can I add icons in a table? Thank -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Getting started in wireless development?

2002-10-07 Thread Palm Dev Forum
Michael, Hi. We keep Minstrel modems in stock. They are CDPD cellular and work with ATT, Verizon and Alltel CDPD service. They retail for $349 to $399 and we can get you one for $199 plus (tax in FL) and shipping. Can ship today overnight. If you have your Palm OS dev system, this will provi

Getting started in wireless development?

2002-10-07 Thread Michael Harrison
The subject line says everything I'm after. With the exception of the following. Is it possible to get into wireless palm development (I'm a complete newbie at wireless but only green at palmos dev) without an initial investment of $1000 or more on wireless equipment? (yes, I'm on a shoestring

GrfProcessStroke

2002-10-07 Thread Pascal Levy
Hi, I'm writing a Graffiti training application, in which I use GrfProcessStroke to recognize characters drawn in a custom training area. It works with letters, but I can't figure out how to recognize numbers. I've tried to play with the numLock parameter of the GrfSetState function, but it seems

Re: app install problem - urgent help is needed

2002-10-07 Thread Christian Vandendorpe
Check also that you are not doing something like orphanning the AppInfo block of your DB. I just had a situation like this where I had to hard reset my Palm because it was in an infinite reset loop like you described. Maks Pyatkovskiy wrote: > Please check your app on Palm OS Emulator: > > 1.

RE: app install problem - urgent help is needed

2002-10-07 Thread Maks Pyatkovskiy
Please check your app on Palm OS Emulator: 1. download the app to Palm OS Emulator; 2. perform soft reset on the Emulator. If you'll see the problem, use CodeWarrior to find the error. The problem looks like your app has an access to global data or vtable in one of special launch codes. Please

Re: C++ and PilRC question

2002-10-07 Thread Markus Dresch
> you can add custom fonts to it. i wanted to say: you can add custom fonts to your application using pilrc -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

app install problem - urgent help is needed

2002-10-07 Thread Alex Gusev
> Hi all, > > I've experienced weird problem during installation of my application on > Palm device. During HotSync session I get "Fatal error" on Palm at > "Cleaning up" stage. After reset the device I get the same message. Only > if I press arrow up while reseting Palm starts to work. I may see

Re: Displaying a list item when first drawn

2002-10-07 Thread Lauren B. Robert
Use LstSetSelection(lstP, 0) where lstP is a pointer to your list, and 0 for the first item in your list to be displayed. See the API if in doubt. Regards, Lauren -- On Sat, 05 Oct 2002 21:24:16 David Moynihan wrote: >Tied a popup trigger to a list. When the form is first drawn, I can o