Re: On Tungsten T, is anyone else getting dynamic memory

2003-01-08 Thread Linke, Andreas
LauncherMain.c, Line: 9128, Could not complete the operation because system is out of dynamic memory. I got first hit by this bug when I tried to HotSync my brand-new TT from the previous OS 4 backup. Even reset w/o notifications wouldn't help, so I had to start over from scratch. Later I read

execute send/recieve for default email application

2003-01-08 Thread Veronica Loell
I am developing an application that uses email to communicate with the desktop part of the application. I can easily add and pull mail off the outbox and inbox. I have not however been able to find any information about whether it is possible to silently trigger the send/recieve commands in the

Re: On Tungsten T, is anyone else getting dynamic memory

2003-01-08 Thread kcorey
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 08:20, Linke, Andreas wrote: I got first hit by this bug when I tried to HotSync my brand-new TT from the previous OS 4 backup. Even reset w/o notifications wouldn't help, so I had to start over from scratch. Later I read in various news groups about a supposed launcher

OT:Where does palm stand in the race.

2003-01-08 Thread Ram Prasad.J
Dear All, Though this question is out of topic, it is some way or the other related to palm. when comparing between pocket pc and palm, i feel that most of the features present in the pocket pc is also available in palm. but when it comes to the number of pdas shipped/ applications created,

How find address resources?

2003-01-08 Thread Michel.P
I need to replicate the address-record-view portion of Address in my app. Instead of reinventing the wheel I decided to use the Address source code available (= copypaste). The problem is that there are many references to resources that I don't have source of and judging from the code alone it's

Repost: FrmDoDialog not erasing behind a Form

2003-01-08 Thread Richard Coutts
Sorry for the repost -- I seem to be getting two different behaviours from FrmDoDialog depending on the ROM. I need to render a Form without erasing what's behind it. (My Form takes up the whole screen, but the Controls are just in the middle, because I want to capture pen events outside of the

Proposition :Job

2003-01-08 Thread Zakaria OUSMAAL
Bonjour, Je suis Ingénieur de développement Pc et Pda et je suis à la recherche d’un Poste de développeur Pda. (possibilité de travail en Freelance ou autre) Merci de me contacter : [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe,

Re: Word Lists for Games

2003-01-08 Thread Stringer
Subject: Re: Word Lists for Games From: Robert Purcell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 10:33:24 -0800 (PST) I tried using file streams, but again, I wanted the word list to be contained WITHIN the PRC file. I DON'T want the end-user to have to load the word list separately from the PRC

Prop Job

2003-01-08 Thread Zakaria OUSMAAL
Hi, I am an Engineer of development PC and Pda and I am looking for a job of post developer Pda. (possibility of work in Freelance or other) I live at Paris. Thanks Contact : [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Re: OT:Where does palm stand in the race.

2003-01-08 Thread Dave Lippincott
What information did you use to come to your conclusion? By all reports, Palm OS is on between 60-70% of all PDAs sold. There are over 9,000 Palm OS applications available. Last time I checked, PPC wasn't even close. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,106463,00.asp

Re: Hi Ben, can shared library support new and delete as theglobal variable issues are concerned?

2003-01-08 Thread mengtao tao
__unexpected is a pointer that's used to look for an unexpected exception. The problem is that the compiler doesn't know that MemPtrNew and MemPtrDelete can't throw exceptions. I think if you explicitly turn off exceptions in the C/C++ Language panel, you should be able to build without

Re: OT:Where does palm stand in the race.

2003-01-08 Thread Mike
However Palms lead is dwindling fast. It wasn't long ago that they had a 90% market share. The differences in the number of applications available for the Palm vs the PocketPC is that the PocketPC comes with some very usable applications. The Palm comes with nothing very useful. That is why

Problem using ROM Transfer

2003-01-08 Thread ramoynihan
Hi folks, I used to have a PalmV, and I was able to download it's ROM image to use within POSE. Recently I moved to an M500, and I have been unable to download the image. One thing I noticed is that POSE only seems set offer serial ports in its configuration, while my new synch cable is USB.

Re: OT:Where does palm stand in the race.

2003-01-08 Thread David A. Desrosiers
The Palm comes with nothing very useful. That is why most Palm users need these other applications. The success of a platform is very-much determined by its third-party support, including that from non-Palm developers. There are 20-30k or more independant developers writing PalmOS

Where to buy Palm rom images and wince

2003-01-08 Thread jawwad ahmed
Hi; Well where can i buy the palmOS and winCE operatinf system.Thanks = --When you learn something, learn it by heart! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- For information on

Re: OT:Where does palm stand in the race.

2003-01-08 Thread Dave Lippincott
Also, the notion of a PDA that has a file system that matches the PC makes it a very desireable device. The PocketPC fits that bill. You can take files from a PC application and in a lot of cases just slip your Compact Flash from the PC to the PocketPC and you are ready to go. The Palm does

Re: OT:Where does palm stand in the race.

2003-01-08 Thread Mike
You missed my point. In the Palm, those developers are required. On the PocketPC they are not required. Most users of PDA only have a few things they need to do. Most don't have special applications that require special software. Yes, many do, but not most. Those applications that most use,

Re: OT:Where does palm stand in the race.

2003-01-08 Thread Craig Belson
--- Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You missed my point. In the Palm, those developers are required. On the PocketPC they are not required. Most users of PDA only have a few things they need to do. Most don't have special applications that require special software. Yes, many do, but

Macintosh, CW8.0 and Generic Conduit.

2003-01-08 Thread Gianni Morelli
Hi, is there someone who can explain me how can I debug my Generic Conduit using a Palm Device or an Emulator ? This is my configuration: Macintosh G4 Mac OS X ver. 10.2.2 Code Warrior for Mac OS, Ver. 8.0 Code Warrior IDE Version 5.0 Palm CDK Vers. 4.03 Sample Conduit Generic Conduit Palm OS

Re: OT:Where does palm stand in the race.

2003-01-08 Thread Veronica Loell
Subject: Re: OT:Where does palm stand in the race. From: Dave Lippincott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 10:36:50 -0500 To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] The differences in the number of applications available for the Palm vs the PocketPC is that the PocketPC

Porting Mail Program to OS5 3.5.2

2003-01-08 Thread mobile
Our Conduit program requires the presence of Mail Program in the Palm. For the OS5, it is not there. For testing purpose, we export the Mail program and reinstall in OS5. Our program has no problem in communicating with Mail program. However, when we try to launch the program to see the email,

Re: OT:Where does palm stand in the race.

2003-01-08 Thread Dave Lippincott
You missed my point. No, I got it. It goes on and on. You buy a Palm and you MUST look for 3rd party to have a decent PDA. On a PocketPC, you don't have to buy any other software to have a very useful PDA Like I said, what you consider a deficiency, I (and a lot of my customers) consider a

Re: OT:Where does palm stand in the race.

2003-01-08 Thread Mike
It goes on and on. You buy a Palm and you MUST look for 3rd party to have a decent PDA. On a PocketPC, you don't have to buy any other software to have a very useful PDA Like I said, what you consider a deficiency, I (and a lot of my customers) consider a feature. Tomato - Tomahto. True

Re: Word Lists for Games

2003-01-08 Thread Carsten
Basic issues of programming, that is. What about a hash-table (f.e. 32bit) ? If you don't know about that -- Google: hash table dictionary (just take the first hit.. looks quite fine) -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Re: Using DmFindSortPosition to find a packed record

2003-01-08 Thread Matt Graham
npm37 wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matt Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm obviously missing the point here, how do pass the string into the function? Do I declare a PackedRecord pointer type to pass, if so how do I get a handle to it without using DmRecordNew? If I simply declare a

Re: OT:Where does palm stand in the race.

2003-01-08 Thread Dave Lippincott
Anyway, no need to go on with this. It will be clear to all in a year or two. Every year for the past 5 years I see the same comment. So far it hasn't come true. (and I'm not saying it couldn't) It has everything to do with pricing. Don't forget that Palm (and other Palm OS licensees) are

Re: how to get data from palm?

2003-01-08 Thread Matt Graham
jason wrote: i get all what you said ,and do my program like bellow .but it doesn't work well, i wonder if ther is some other mistaken ,please help! Your code is making it more confusing that it should be. all that pBuffer stuff is numbing. try replacing char * pBuffer; with myrecord

Convert Palm App to WindowsCE App

2003-01-08 Thread christy
I just finished my first Palm app. I used CW8.0 and the app is targeted for Palm Platform. Is there a way that I can convert the app to run on other Platforms? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.

Re: error when frmcloseEvent?

2003-01-08 Thread Matt Graham
jason wrote: hello : i had a trouble on frmcloseevent. when i close a form using frmeraseform() , there is a error happened. on simulator it told me that i just read from low memory . i wonder why it is occur ,and how to settle it? maybe I'm unusual in this, but I usually don't

Web Browser 2.0 and local files

2003-01-08 Thread Eamon Kelly
hi, is there any way to reference local files from the web browser? Using HostFS I have two files in the VFS, one of which contains a jump to the other. I can get the first file to display by sending it to the web browser using WebExg and the Exchange Manager, but I want to be able to click on the

Re: OT:Where does palm stand in the race.

2003-01-08 Thread Oliver
Ah! Fun! A PPC vs. Palm flame war ;-) Both have essentially the same useful applications. With the Palm they are after market. With the PocketPC, they are built-in. What is the Palm you are talking about? I think there are about a dozen consumer devices being sold today that run

Re: Convert Palm App to WindowsCE App

2003-01-08 Thread Oliver
I just finished my first Palm app. Congratulations! Feels good, doesn't it? Though you are probably never quite finished... I guess that's why you used the quotes ;-) Anyway... I used CW8.0 and the app is targeted for Palm Platform. Is there a way that I can convert the app to run on

Re: Word Lists for Games

2003-01-08 Thread Ken Krugler
Hi Robert, The multi-segment shared lib sample code I mentioned in my previous post implements fast word lookup from a compressed word list. The technique of using a DAWG was describe in The World's Fastest Scrabble Program, by Appel and Jacobson, JACM, May 1988. At 12:00am -0800 03-01-08,

Re: Convert Palm App to WindowsCE App

2003-01-08 Thread Palm Dev Forum
I believe this has been covered many times over the years in this forum. May I suggest you search this archive. The forum link below will get you to the escribe archives where you can easily search. I will say that Multiplatform development is more than you may be willing to invest in using C or

Re: Where to buy Palm rom images and wince

2003-01-08 Thread Oliver
Well where can i buy the palmOS and winCE operatinf system.Thanks PalmOS: palmsource.com WinCE: microsoft.com ;-) Really, though -- what do you want to do? Do you want to license the operating system? Then go with the above links. Do you want to use the PalmOS ROM images with the

Re: Using DmFindSortPosition to find a packed record

2003-01-08 Thread Mark Wilden
From: Matt Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] char *idname = Hello; index = DmFindSortPosition( dbP, idname, 0, compar, 0 ); Because your compare function treats the records as a string, you don't need to pass anything more complicated to DmFindSortPosition because the compare function will just

Re: Word Lists for Games

2003-01-08 Thread Robert Purcell
Thanks again Ken for your help. Believe me, I would love to be able to use your code (it would save me so much time and frustration). And, it's not that I didn't appreciate it the last time, it's just that after hours spent looking at your code, I still couldn't make any sense out of it. Gosh,

Re: error when frmcloseEvent?

2003-01-08 Thread Horace Ho
Check the Save behind property of the form resource. horace jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:107948@palm-dev-forum... hello : i had a trouble on frmcloseevent. when i close a form using frmeraseform() , there is a error happened. on simulator it told me that i just read

Re: OT:Where does palm stand in the race.

2003-01-08 Thread David A. Desrosiers
You missed my point. In the Palm, those developers are required. On the PocketPC they are not required. It goes on and on. You buy a Palm and you MUST look for 3rd party to have a decent PDA. On a PocketPC, you don't have to buy any other software to have a very useful PDA. I

Re: Word Lists for Games

2003-01-08 Thread Mark Wilden
From: Ken Krugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] The technique of using a DAWG was describe in The World's Fastest Scrabble Program, by Appel and Jacobson, JACM, May 1988. Since their algorithm was used by Niggle, the precursor to the current Hasbro-approved Palm Scrabble app, this article is definitely

HighDensity drawing examples with offscreen bitmaps?

2003-01-08 Thread kcorey
Hi All, I'm (attempting) to update my game to support high density graphics, with offscreen bitmaps. I'm having so much trouble attempting to get it to work, I just know that I'm doing something horribly wrong. First off, I've read the section in the Programmer's companion (section 4) Drawing

RE: HighDensity drawing examples with offscreen bitmaps?

2003-01-08 Thread Danny Wong
HI, when you create your offscreen bitmap you need to pass in the screen format as nativeFormat and not screenFormat. Try that it works for me. regards Danny www.toysoft.ca -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of kcorey Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Convert Palm App to WindowsCE App

2003-01-08 Thread Bill Andreozzi
One way to really make the port easier, although some people may complain (due to the performance impact) Write wrapper functions around everything that is Palm specific, then using some design technique like the Abstract Factory or Bridge design pattern. thanks - bill christy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Resource Editor for font creation

2003-01-08 Thread Bill Andreozzi
xFont is nice, also Hands High Software has some nice stuff. We use FontLab 4.5 to create the TTF, then use HandsHigh Font Bucket (font converter) to create the font pdb, then we strip the header and trailer from the PDB to create the font resource, then we attach that font resource as a record

Re: Understanding Palm databases...

2003-01-08 Thread Bill Andreozzi
This brings up a question I've always wanted to know, how does one just dump a raw file onto the Palm? Must all file(s) synched to the device conform to either the prc or pdb format? thanks - bill Ryan Dary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:107921@palm-dev-forum... Hello. This may

Re: Where to buy Palm rom images and wince

2003-01-08 Thread Brian Smith
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Oliver wrote: Not sure if there are ROM images and device emulators for Wince devices... but then, this is a PalmOS mailing list anyway ;-) There are, but they're incredibly flaky (I wonder why :-) I've personally been very turned off to Win CE development after a project

Idea for a Tungsten App?

2003-01-08 Thread kcorey
Hi All, Having to open my Tungsten to get to the Launch or Menu silkscreen button is starting to get old, so I thought maybe it's time to write something that gets around it. I was thinking about creating a Desk Accessory that when selected would send a vchrLaunch or vchrMenu keyDownEvent to the

Re: HighDensity drawing examples with offscreen bitmaps?

2003-01-08 Thread tilo . christ
Hi! You might want to download my Razor! framework from www.tilo-christ.de/razor and look at the implementation of PalmOSCanvas.cpp and PalmOSBlitter.cpp. This source code works on all versions of PalmOS and clearly demonstrates the differences between OS5 and previous OSes. Good Luck, Tilo

Re: HighDensity drawing examples with offscreen bitmaps?

2003-01-08 Thread Horace Ho
Is your code GPL'ed? In such case, a commercial developer is not supposed to 'look' into it, right? horace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:108054@palm-dev-forum... Hi! You might want to download my Razor! framework from www.tilo-christ.de/razor and look at the implementation of

RE: HighDensity drawing examples with offscreen bitmaps?

2003-01-08 Thread kcorey
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 20:03, Danny Wong wrote: when you create your offscreen bitmap you need to pass in the screen format as nativeFormat and not screenFormat. Try that it works for me. Well, what do you know. That did work. I feel a bit silly for not having tried that. *smile* Now, on to

Expansion Card File Names

2003-01-08 Thread JKingGrim
How do you seperate the directory, name, and extension from a file name returned from VFSDirEntryEnumerate()? Thanks for the help, Jonathan King __ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now!

Re: Re: HighDensity drawing examples with offscreen bitmaps?

2003-01-08 Thread tilo . christ
Hi! Is your code GPL'ed? In such case, a commercial developer is not supposed to 'look' into it, right? Nothing could be farther from the truth. The GPL contains no such provision. You just have to GPL all code you derive from a GPLed piece of code. There is even nothing in there that will stop

Re: Re: HighDensity drawing examples with offscreen bitmaps?

2003-01-08 Thread Horace Ho
Till now I do not understand the GPL (or LGPL) well ;-) For LGPL, using Razar! as an example, do I need to disclose my source code if I look at Razor!'s (L) code (i.e. more than just linking with it, I read the source and learn from it)? That's why I always the BSD license (if I am really

Re: Expansion Card File Names

2003-01-08 Thread Horace Ho
FileInfoType, the 3rd parameter passed to VFSDirEntryEnumerate() [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:108062@palm-dev-forum... How do you seperate the directory, name, and extension from a file name returned from VFSDirEntryEnumerate()? -- For information on using the Palm Developer

NetLibClose crash

2003-01-08 Thread Dawn Margerum
Are there any known problems with NetLibClose or NetLibOpenCount in os 4.0? After initiaitng a socket session and downloading some data, I am crashing with a fatal error during my NetLibClose only on an m505 with a palm Modem. The code works fine with tungsten, m515, palm iiic, and the

Re: Understanding Palm databases...

2003-01-08 Thread Hal Mueller
At 12:45 PM -0800 1/8/03, Bill Andreozzi wrote: This brings up a question I've always wanted to know, how does one just dump a raw file onto the Palm? You can't. Must all file(s) synched to the device conform to either the prc or pdb format? thanks - bill Almost. One option is to synch

RE: Expansion Card File Names

2003-01-08 Thread Danny Wong
you'll have to parse it out yourself the dirty way. look for the . in the filename and go from there. If you want just a file dialog have a look at Universal File Dialog @ www.toysoft.ca/ufd.html regards, danny -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

Re: Re: Re: HighDensity drawing examples with offscreen bitmaps?

2003-01-08 Thread tilo . christ
Hi! For LGPL, using Razar! as an example, do I need to disclose my source code if I look at Razor!'s (L) code (i.e. more than just linking with it, I read the source and learn from it)? No, there is no situation whatsoever in which you will have to disclose your application's source code.

Re: error when frmcloseEvent?

2003-01-08 Thread jason
i use frmeraseform(), for the reason of when i used frmgotoform() , the previous window cann't clear entirely ,and remained somepart . Matt Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??:[EMAIL PROTECTED] jason wrote: hello : i had a trouble on frmcloseevent. when i close a form using

Re: NetLibClose crash

2003-01-08 Thread Dawn Margerum
folks. ignore this post. I was blowing the stack. thx, Mike -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Query palm modem for power level

2003-01-08 Thread Dawn Margerum
Is there a way to query a palm modem for how much power it has left? thanks, Mike Margerum -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Key codes for O-ring

2003-01-08 Thread Thorne Ventura
I saw that this was asked before, but I could not find the answer nor could I find the codes in any of the Palm OS SDK .H files. Where are the key codes for the Tungsten|T O-ring? Thanks. Thorne Ventura -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Re: DirectBits not supported

2003-01-08 Thread Bob Worsley
I installed SDK4 today and that fixed the problem. The first box does not have the SDK installed but still works. Both are Win 2000, go figure. Thanks... Bob -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Key codes for O-ring

2003-01-08 Thread Oliver
I saw that this was asked before, but I could not find the answer nor could I find the codes in any of the Palm OS SDK .H files. Where are the key codes for the Tungsten|T O-ring? Thanks. It was also answered before ;-) http://www.escribe.com/computing/pcpqa/m68409.html In short: The

Re: Key codes for O-ring

2003-01-08 Thread Thorne Ventura
Oliver - Yes and I saw Horace's answer before. It doesn't help. I have no idea where the Development Seeding Area is. Can you elaborate? Thanks, Thorne -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Key codes for O-ring

2003-01-08 Thread Oliver
Oliver - Yes and I saw Horace's answer before. It doesn't help. I have no idea where the Development Seeding Area is. Can you elaborate? Oh, sorry. It's where you download the ROM images and other goodies that PalmSource makes available to you after you sign up for the developer program

Re: error when frmcloseEvent?

2003-01-08 Thread Ram Prasad.J
i use frmeraseform(), for the reason of when i used frmgotoform() , the previous window cann't clear entirely ,and remained somepart . its always better to use frmgotoform instead of frmeraseform. if there is any problem in using frmgotoform, 1) please check wheather you have set the

Re: Idea for a Tungsten App?

2003-01-08 Thread Markus Dresch
did you have a look at the notification manager? (palm os programmer's companion) markus dresch (www.palmside.com) kcorey [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:108053@palm-dev-forum... Hi All, Having to open my Tungsten to get to the Launch or Menu silkscreen button is starting to

Re: Idea for a Tungsten App?

2003-01-08 Thread Oliver
Having to open my Tungsten to get to the Launch or Menu silkscreen button is starting to get old, I don't have a Tungsten handy, but I thought I read that holding down the middle button of the 5-way navigator launches the launcher? Oliver __