RE: Bitmap

2003-11-24 Thread Sushil
Marianne, Well, let me get some more details from you. Are you using Codewarrior 9.0 & Tools or using 7.0 & its tools? See, CW9.0's constructor allows you to check the compress option when u are creating a bitmap resource and in that case you must just take an uncompressed bitmap and copy-paste o

Re: Bitmap

2003-11-24 Thread Marianne
Hello Sushil , Our bitmaps have been given to us compressed using RLE algorithm , but when we paste it in the Constructor's bitmap editor from MS Paint , it becomes blank . Now our client is asking us what else could be done . Original bitmap size Compressed size

Re: Allocating memory for C++ objects

2003-11-24 Thread Mark F. Rodriguez
> What is the prefered method for allocating memory on the heap > dynamically for objects created with C++? Right now I use the > keyword new. Is it better to use MemHandleNew? If so, how would you > do this? Thanks. > > Tim Dean Typically in your development environment, this will be handled

Object oriented limitations in Palm OS

2003-11-24 Thread Timothy Dean
I have created a object hierarchy using C++ in a Palm OS program. It uses inheritance, and virtual functions. It is about 4 to 5 levels deep using inheritance. The user interface is dynamically generated at run time. I am running into strange problems that don't make sense. One example is that

Allocating memory for C++ objects

2003-11-24 Thread Timothy Dean
What is the prefered method for allocating memory on the heap dynamically for objects created with C++? Right now I use the keyword new. Is it better to use MemHandleNew? If so, how would you do this? Thanks. Tim Dean -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe

Help to make a program for a model release

2003-11-24 Thread Greatness
Can anyone tell me how I can make a text file that can have a few name fields keyed in, plus a place for a signature (like UPS) so that I can print out a copy of the model release with a signature on it. I have absolutely no previous experience with programming, but I think this should be a relativ

Makefile example using "-T text_64k" (PLEASE)?

2003-11-24 Thread Gregg Woodcock
The only dox/info I can locate online are woefully inadequate: http://drs.yahoo.com/S=2766679/K=text_64k_palmos3+/v=2/SID=w/l=WS1/R=1/H=0/*-http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/doc/prc-tools_3.html As I understand it, this allows the primary code segment (#1) to grow (more or less) up to 64K (instead

GrfGetState and Graffiti 2

2003-11-24 Thread Arye Schreiber
Is there any way of getting the graffiti state information with graffiti 2. GrfGetState seems to always return 0 in the tempShift value. LionScribe The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIV

RE: Multipleline Text Field

2003-11-24 Thread ThuNguyet Nguyen
Hi there, In the memopad tutorial, there is some sample code on multi line text field with scroll bar. If you just need multiline text field without the scroll bar, (I am using CW, I don't know how to do it in Pilrc) In the contructor, you put a text field with the height = number of lines x 11,

Re: Problem with Keylock feature.

2003-11-24 Thread Robert Moynihan
Ronald, sorry that I don't have a solution to your question, but I have been wanting to find way to disable the Treo600 keyguard; just haven't gotten around to looking yet. Would you be able to give me a quick shove in the right direction? No problem, of course, if it is more complicated tha

RE: OS 5.x Serial Baud Rates

2003-11-24 Thread dennis
Hello All, As a helpful memory jog, here's a link to the previous discussion from Jan 20, 2003: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/palm-dev-forum/message/83420 between "Mike" and Rob Larson which ended with "Maybe OS 5.1+ could be upgraded to accept such a value." Has there been any resolution to th

Problem with Keylock feature.

2003-11-24 Thread Ronald Gouldner
Palm OS 5.2 has a feature in prefs called Keylock which prevents the device from waking when buttons are pressed by displaying a dialog with a screen button that must be pressed before the device wakes. My application wakes the device in order to perform a task however it is being blocked by KeyLo

Palm Zire21 & 71, no alarm

2003-11-24 Thread Ryan Bruner
My application has an alarm feature. At the alarm trigger, I call either AttnDoSpecialEffect with the LED, Vibrate, and Sound events. I do this if the PalmOS is greater than 4 (as indicated in the manual). If not, then I call the Snd API to play an alarm sound. Now, this has worked. But I've g

cannot show the draw line

2003-11-24 Thread KEN
hi all, In a function, I cannot use WinDrawLine to show the lines inside the 2 commands WinSetDrawWindow( ) as shown below, what is the problem and how can I fix it? WinGetWindowExtent(&scr_width, &scr_height); gScrH = WinCreateOffscreenWindow(scr_width, scr_height, screenFormat, &err); if (err

Re: Need info on the Data Managers "unique ID"

2003-11-24 Thread Dave Lasker
Just to keep the record straight, there is a definition of the "reserved" range of unique id's in the PalmSource knowledge base. Go to kb.palmsource.com and search on "unique". Go to the article titled: "How are database unique IDs assigned when a record is added to a database?" If your PC app se

How to create custom font resource with constructor for?

2003-11-24 Thread Zhiqiang Yang
I always don't know how to create custom font resource with constructor for palm os, Who can give me a tutorial or some relational information? Thanks! Sean Yang 2003.11.25 -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/suppo

missing graffitti state indicator when using TealScript

2003-11-24 Thread Dave Lasker
When I run my app on a Tungsten T with Tealscript global recognition turned on, my dialog boxes with autoshift don't show the Graffitti state indicator. Note that autoshift works fine; it is just the indicator that doesn't display. If I turn off Tealscript global recognition, everything works corre

Re: Tungsten E

2003-11-24 Thread Craig Likes
You need to step through your code and find out where it is crashing. I don't believe there is any compatibility problems with T|E and < 5.2 I originally wrote one of my Palm Apps for Vx (3.5) and I didn't have to do anything to get it to run correctly on Tungsten E. FYI, I am using the nil even

Re: palmcall + globals

2003-11-24 Thread Brian Smith
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Thanh wrote: > I also need it to pass paramters to the applications. Is this possible? Yes. It works the same way as palmcall in that respect. -- --- Brian Smith // avalon73 at arthurian dot nu // http://

Re: Speeding up hotsynch (24K Records)

2003-11-24 Thread Alan Ingleby
"David R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks for the response and suggestions! How big can I make a record before > I see a significant performance hit while opening, editing and writing that > a "super" record back to the palm? If the 24K records are a read only

RE: Drawing on a Dynamic Input Area (reprise)

2003-11-24 Thread steve
Have you resized your window? Steve > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bounce-palm-dev- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jake Wobbrock > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 7:07 PM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: Drawing on a Dynamic Input Area (reprise) > > I poste

Re: Tungsten E

2003-11-24 Thread Mike McCollister
Have you tried running this on the Tungsten E simulator or any other Palm OS 5.x simulator? Mike --- Ramiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Why my application, running on a Tungsten E freeze when I tap in the > 'application launcher' icon??? > The same application runnig on Zire (m150) work

Re: Hardware specific features - Differences between DragonBall and ARM CPUs

2003-11-24 Thread Etienne Fortin
I mean "hardware timer registers" and not "hardware registers"... "Etienne Fortin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi everyone, > Some times ago I developped a Palm compatible application that made use of > the hardware timers available on DragonBall CPU because I ne

Hardware specific features - Differences between DragonBall and ARM CPUs

2003-11-24 Thread Etienne Fortin
Hi everyone, Some times ago I developped a Palm compatible application that made use of the hardware timers available on DragonBall CPU because I needed an high resolution timer. Now I want to port that application to ARM compatible devices and would like to know if, like the dragonball, there's ha

Tungsten E

2003-11-24 Thread Ramiro
Hi, Why my application, running on a Tungsten E freeze when I tap in the 'application launcher' icon??? The same application runnig on Zire (m150) work fine. I'm using nilEvent to handle some operations. Here is the event loop code: static void EventLoop(void) { EventType event; Err err; do

Re: Speeding up hotsynch (24K Records)

2003-11-24 Thread David R.
Thanks for the response and suggestions! How big can I make a record before I see a significant performance hit while opening, editing and writing that a "super" record back to the palm? - Original Message - From: "Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: palmcall + globals

2003-11-24 Thread Ron Nicholson
On Monday, November 24, 2003 12:36 PM "Thanh" writes: >> I also need it to pass paramters to the applications. Is this possible? Both a sub-launch and a custom notification launch allow you to pass a pointer to a parameter structure memory block, which can be in feature memory as well. >> "Thanh

Multipleline Text Field

2003-11-24 Thread pcles
Hi, I'm trying to print some text into a multiple line non-editable text field with sometihing like this: StrCopy(helpStr, "Message1 Help...\0AMessage2 Help...\0AMessage3 Help...\0AMessage4 Help..."); FldSetTextPtr(fieldHelpP, helpStr); Unfortunately, it does not work. All the text is printed

Re: palmcall + globals

2003-11-24 Thread Dave Lippincott
You could always place your parameters in a file or preference record. - Original Message - From: "Thanh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 12:36 PM Subject: Re: palmcall + globals > I also need

Re: WinDrawChar problem with 'µ' and '¼'

2003-11-24 Thread Jeremy
Thank you, it worked, Jeremy -- - Jeremy Adler, MD, FAAP Pocket-Doc.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pocket-doc.com "Jeremy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm having a strange problem with WinDrawChar. It works fine with other > characters in stdFont, but with s

Re: pilRC + CW 9.2 a good book for the new learner?

2003-11-24 Thread Matthew Henry
> Is there a recommended book that will walk me through the steps > to set-up CW9.2 to use pilRC. I currently use Constructor. I am fairly new > all of this. so a book that starts with the basics would be great! > A book? I don't think you are giving yourself enough credit. It's really prett

RE: pilRC + CW 9.2 a good book for the new learner?

2003-11-24 Thread Barnett, Phil R
The pilRC is pretty well woven into the CW interface, so mostly, you click a menu selection to start it. I would suggest that you go through the tutorial found under: C:\Program Files\Metrowerks\CodeWarrior\CodeWarrior Manuals\MW Tutorial For Palm OS That should get you familiar with all the st

Drawing on a Dynamic Input Area (reprise)

2003-11-24 Thread Jake Wobbrock
I posted awhile back about drawing on a dynamic input area. I was wondering if anyone knows whether or not this is possible? I've of course tried drawing to the screen where the DIA is showing, and nothing comes up. I've tried using EvtGraffitiEnable() to turn off Graffiti and still no drawing is p

pilRC + CW 9.2 a good book for the new learner?

2003-11-24 Thread Muriph, Michael
Is there a recommended book that will walk me through the steps to set-up CW9.2 to use pilRC. I currently use Constructor. I am fairly new all of this. so a book that starts with the basics would be great! Michael Muriph -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or t

Re: How do I know whether undo is available?

2003-11-24 Thread Ken Krugler
I am writing an application that has an field, which user can edit arbitrarily. I want to show my special undo-button only if there is an action to undo for the field. I want to hide it otherwise. How do I know whether there is an action to undo or not? Unfortunately there's no reliable way without

palmcall + parameters

2003-11-24 Thread Thanh
Hello everyone. I'm creating a webpage that will have some palmcall tags for my palm. (this is the only way that I know how to execute a palm program and pass it parameters). However, the program that I call needs the use of global variables which is not allowed as a system url launch. Is there

Re: palmcall + globals

2003-11-24 Thread Thanh
I also need it to pass paramters to the applications. Is this possible? Thanh "Thanh Pham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is there any way of makinga palmcall froma clipping application load up an > application that uses global variables? Or is this a lost cause

Re: WinDrawChar problem with 'µ' and '¼'

2003-11-24 Thread Dave Lasker
Sounds like the Char vs WChar issue which has been discussed at length in this group. Search the archives for sign extended char for the answer... Dave "Jeremy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm having a strange problem with WinDrawChar. It works fine with other

Dyanmic heap size limit

2003-11-24 Thread Surendra
Hi All, I have an application that allocates >4MB of memory on dynamic heap at runtime. The app allocates several chunks of size 10K by using the MemGluePtrNew() routine. But this function fails at some point when the total allocated memory size reaches approx 4MB. It appears that 4MB is max dyna

Re: Newbie Needs Help Getting Started

2003-11-24 Thread Dave Lasker
Try http://www.calliopeinc.com/palmprog2/tutorial/index.html Dave "Laurens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Erica A Ramsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hello, > > I'm a newbie to PalmOS programming. I have downloaded cygwin wi

Re: Static functions

2003-11-24 Thread Michael Yam
Ack. I stand corrected. I recently read some inaccurate information about static declarations and it stuck in my head. Checking with K&R, yes, function names are global. Thanks also for the link to Niel's excellent explanation. --Mike Y. "John Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message n

Re: Newbie Needs Help Getting Started

2003-11-24 Thread Laurens
"Erica A Ramsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello, > I'm a newbie to PalmOS programming. I have downloaded cygwin with prc-tools > and I have also installed the PalmOS 5.0 SDK. So, now how do I use the gnu > and prc-tools to write palm applications? May I sugges

keyDownEvent when tungsten slider close/open

2003-11-24 Thread York Kie Tan
Hi, I've been searching around and looking at Keymgr.h but I can't find the specific constant for KeyDownEvent generated when a tungsten's slider close or open. I will appreciate it if someone can point me to the right direction. Thank you ___

Re: Static functions

2003-11-24 Thread John Marshall
Michael Yam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the C standard defaults to static function declarations. Uh, no. But there is potential for confusion between the requirement for a declaration, and a function's staticness. // Translation unit a.c int foo() { return 1; } i

Re: How do I know whether undo is available?

2003-11-24 Thread Kazuyuki Hirooka
Thank you, Caspar, but the idea does not fullfill my desire. Because there are some, or many, exceptions which seems to be hard to overcome. Exceptions. 1. When tapping undo button in the command toolbar The field can be edited not only by the buttons or the menu items (Undo, Cut, Copy and Paste)

RE: WindowsCE vs PalmOS

2003-11-24 Thread Mike Shubeck
The PPC emus aren't as cool as the Palm's but eVC is better than Codewarrior (and its free). Which is easier depends on your background, I was brought up on Windows so development is easier for me there. However, I've chosen Palm OS over CE for my personal device (Tapwave Zodiac :) ). Also of note

Re: Hotsync Software.

2003-11-24 Thread Dave Lippincott
If you mean from the PC side, no. From the hand held, post the hotsync button message. - Original Message - From: "Gianni Morelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:40 AM Subject: Hotsync Software. > Hi All, > is there

Re: Static functions

2003-11-24 Thread Michael Yam
I think the C standard defaults to static function declarations. The examples used by Palm explicitly declares them static which is redundant but okay. For calls from other programs, you'll need to remove the static declaration and declare the function extern in a header file. --Mike Y. http://w

Re: Regarding MemMove

2003-11-24 Thread Bob Withers
At 08:33 AM 11/24/2003 -0500, you wrote: It seems like Palm could have avoided lots of confusion by just naming this function "MemCopy" instead of "MemMove". After all, everyone is quite familiar with the difference between moving a file and copying one. It also seems like they generally tried

Re: Static functions

2003-11-24 Thread Gearoid Murphy
Nope, if an application is large enough the handlers for different forms could be in different source files and, in this case, could not be declared as static as they generally must be "visible" to the AppHandleEvent function. From: "rguevara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Palm Developer Foru

Re: Static functions

2003-11-24 Thread miches
Nope. :) Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A little question, is obligatory the declaration of static of the handlers functions? > (like the static Boolean SomeFunctionHandler()) > > -- > Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) > > > -- > For information on using the

Re: Regarding MemMove

2003-11-24 Thread Gordon, Douglas
Tom Hoelscher wrote: >Generally speaking, a MemMove does not actually *move* >the data, but copies it to the destination, leaving the >original data (the source) intact. It seems like Palm could have avoided lots of confusion by just naming this function "MemCopy" instead of "MemMove". After a

Re: about bmp on clie PEG-TJ25

2003-11-24 Thread Max Vlasov
Aaron Ardiri wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >CREATION: >// SONY --> HRBmpCreate >HRWinCreateBitmapWindow >// PALM HDD --> BmpCreate >BmpCreateBitmapV3 >WinCreateBitmapWindow >// PALM old --> BmpCreate >WinCreateBitmapWind

Static functions

2003-11-24 Thread rguevara
A little question, is obligatory the declaration of static of the handlers functions? (like the static Boolean SomeFunctionHandler()) -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/

Re: about bmp on clie PEG-TJ25

2003-11-24 Thread Aaron Ardiri
> I see what you mean, and it does make sense. But I don't understand some > things, they did'nt noted in the palmos docs. Does BmpCreateV3 take bits as > is and save the references to it in the header or does it create a full copy > of the bits data. First case proves your words from another aspec

Re: about bmp on clie PEG-TJ25

2003-11-24 Thread Max Vlasov
Aaron Ardiri wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >> I see (and saw) you're familiar with the topic. May I ask you a question? >> If I create a version 3 bitmap with BmpCreateBitmapV3 and denesityDouble >> constant, will the bits returning by BmpGetBits() have the same structure as >> the bits

WinDrawChar problem with 'µ' and '¼'

2003-11-24 Thread Jeremy
I'm having a strange problem with WinDrawChar. It works fine with other characters in stdFont, but with some of the less common characters such as 'µ' and '¼', I get the following error: called SysFatalAlert with the message: "TextMgr.cpp, Line 2723, Sign-extended char passed to TxtSetNextChar

Re: about bmp on clie PEG-TJ25

2003-11-24 Thread Aaron Ardiri
> I see (and saw) you're familiar with the topic. May I ask you a question? > If I create a version 3 bitmap with BmpCreateBitmapV3 and denesityDouble > constant, will the bits returning by BmpGetBits() have the same structure as > the bits returning for the primary bitmap, on which this was create

Re: about bmp on clie PEG-TJ25

2003-11-24 Thread Max Vlasov
Hi, Aaron >pre OS5 devices used to guarentee that the bits were directly referenced >after the header - however, this changed on OS5 and hence the required >use of BmpGetBits() to actually access the data. > I see (and saw) you're familiar with the topic. May I ask you a question? If I create a

Re: Newbie Needs Help Getting Started

2003-11-24 Thread Einar Örn
Hi, Learn how to use a Makefile. Download a hello world project, look at the code, the Makefile, the rcp file... Build it. That's a good start. E. "Erica A Ramsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello, > I'm a newbie to PalmOS programming. I have downloaded cygwin w

RE:Speeding up hotsynch (24K Records)

2003-11-24 Thread Armel Asselin
Hello unfortunately, it seems to be almost the only way. You can simplify your problem on the Palm side however: you could add some special info in your PDB that indicates that the PDB comes from PC side and then split your records top get a basic structure (if you're sure there cannot be more tha

RE: How do I know whether undo is availa

2003-11-24 Thread Caspar Heiden, vd
In your undo function, call FldSetDirty (with false for second argument). Good luck, Caspar -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kazuyuki Hirooka Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 5:37 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: RE: How do I know wheth

Re: about bmp on clie PEG-TJ25

2003-11-24 Thread Aaron Ardiri
> > MemMove((UInt8 *)((UInt32)bmpP + (UInt32)headersize), myData, datasize); > > Use BmpGetBits(bmpP) instead of calculating the bits offset manually. pre OS5 devices used to guarentee that the bits were directly referenced after the header - however, this changed on OS5 and hence the required u

Re: Hotsync Software.

2003-11-24 Thread Aaron Ardiri
> Hi All, > is there a chance to launch an HotSync session through some API's (via > software) rather than press the button on the cradle ? add the hotsync key to the event queue with a keyDownEvent? vchrCradle if memory serves me correctly :) --- Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mobile

Re: about bmp on clie PEG-TJ25

2003-11-24 Thread Max Vlasov
Hi! > MemMove((UInt8 *)((UInt32)bmpP + (UInt32)headersize), myData, datasize); Use BmpGetBits(bmpP) instead of calculating the bits offset manually. Max -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Hotsync Software.

2003-11-24 Thread Gianni Morelli
Hi All, is there a chance to launch an HotSync session through some API's (via software) rather than press the button on the cradle ? TIA Gianni -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: WindowsCE vs PalmOS

2003-11-24 Thread Markus Dresch
no... it's not easier. i wrote an application for ppc2002, worked fine. i installed it on a ppc2003 device. the debugger spit out some pretty "datatype misalignment" messages and half of the application didn't work. i recompiled it with the ppc2003 sdk. no difference. it took me about one week to g

about bmp on clie PEG-TJ25

2003-11-24 Thread palm
I want to show words on palmos5 platform using my custom font.In order to show quickly,I create a bitmap(Low-Density), copy data to it,and show it. The following code run well on sony NR70J(Palmos4.1) emulator,but it don't be run on sony PEG-TJ25(Palmos5.2 and High-Density).I find the PEG-Tj25 dev