Tungsten W

2004-06-15 Thread Mike Davis
I have a problem that only shows up on one Tungsten PDA. Many have reported this problem. Problem: Program launches and then returns back to the launcher without actually displaying anything. It is though the app just exits back to the launcher, without producing any errors. A previous

Porting 68K CW9 to ARM PACE application

2004-06-15 Thread Saurabh Agarwal
Hi, How can I convert my 68K application (developed using Code Warrior9) to run on a ARM processor device (through PACE)? I don't have to convert it into Native ARM application. I have downloaded the PODS Alpha Version. Thanx. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to

Re: Tungsten W

2004-06-15 Thread Chris Tutty
From: Mike Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] A previous version worked ok. The only change was adding a 320x320 display. The previous version, that worked, also had a bitmap family but just didn't have the 320x320 display. After I added this new bitmap, I got the symptoms above. I thought it might

Re: Porting 68K CW9 to ARM PACE application

2004-06-15 Thread Ben Combee
At 01:38 AM 6/15/2004, you wrote: How can I convert my 68K application (developed using Code Warrior9) to run on a ARM processor device (through PACE)? I don't have to convert it into Native ARM application. Do you really need to port it to ARM Native? Native applications aren't supported on

Version Control System

2004-06-15 Thread Annada Prasana
Hy all, please help me about the version control system in metrowerks IDE. Thankx Annada -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Writing a global variable to feature memory.

2004-06-15 Thread Aaron Ardiri
instead of writing to a database, why not use an unused area of the display controller? there are a few devices out there that are read/write and have at least 40-50k free :) It's surely useful to have some comedy with Aaron's quips, but watch this, next question will be How do I do

Re: Porting 68K CW9 to ARM PACE application

2004-06-15 Thread Aaron Ardiri
How can I convert my 68K application (developed using Code Warrior9) to run on a ARM processor device (through PACE)? I don't have to convert it into Native ARM application. I have downloaded the PODS Alpha Version. you run it as a 68k application - the device will do what you want. no need

Re: Writing a global variable to feature memory.

2004-06-15 Thread Aaron Ardiri
Forget about the Heap option, you wouldn't be able to retrieve the pointer to it, except if you store it in 'Guess what' (Feature Memory!). And if you ask me, for those times that globals aren't possible, feature memory was the best thing created! well, back in the old pre 3.5 days - you only

Re: 'MemGluePtrNew'

2004-06-15 Thread Aaron Ardiri
one thing i knowthe different between MemPtrNew and MemGluePtrNew is the size it can allocate. MemPtrNew can only claim 1 to a bit less than 64K while MemGluePTrNew can go beyond it. both also use MemPtrFree to deallocate/free memory they claimed. well, lets look at this from an os

Re: Writing a global variable to feature memory.

2004-06-15 Thread Aaron Ardiri
Palm IIIc - 80kb of display memory available on the SED 1386 controller. shoot me, it was SED 1375 controller - palm 505 had SED 1376 :) --- Aaron Ardiri PalmOS Certified Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mobilewizardry.com/members/aaron_ardiri.php -- For information on using the Palm

Re: Porting 68K CW9 to ARM PACE application

2004-06-15 Thread Saurabh Agarwal
Hi Ben, I only have to port my 68K CW9 application to a PACE application. I do not have to port it to ARM-native application. The overall purpose is that my original 68K SDK 5 application should be atleast compilable on Version 6 SDK. For that, I need to convert my 68K CW9 application into a

Re: Porting 68K CW9 to ARM PACE application

2004-06-15 Thread Aaron Ardiri
I only have to port my 68K CW9 application to a PACE application. I do not have to port it to ARM-native application. there is no such thing as a PACE application. its 68K, or PNO. PACE is a compatibility layer - so, you can run 68k applications on ARM. if your application runs fine under a

Re: Porting 68K CW9 to ARM PACE application

2004-06-15 Thread Saurabh Agarwal
But I am not able to open my 68K Code Warrior 9 project in PODS Alpha? I need to verify that my application is compliable with version 6 SDK. Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I only have to port my 68K CW9 application to a PACE application. I do not

SysAppLaunch

2004-06-15 Thread Ingemar Bergmark
Hi, Is there any documenation anywhere that describes how to use the launchFlags argument in SysAppLaunch()? I knowI'm only supposed to supply 0, but since it's there I guess that it's possible to use this in certain situations. I've scanned SystemMgr.h and seen that there are 7 flags

Re: Porting 68K CW9 to ARM PACE application

2004-06-15 Thread Saurabh Agarwal
That means if: 1) my 68K application runs fine under 4.0 debug rom with every option turned ON. Then this application will also run successfully on a Palm Device with ARM Processror (and Palm OS version 6). Is this what you want to say? If so then I dont need to worry about compiling my

Re: Porting 68K CW9 to ARM PACE application

2004-06-15 Thread Ben Combee
At 03:05 AM 6/15/2004, Saurabh Agarwal wrote: That means if: 1) my 68K application runs fine under 4.0 debug rom with every option turned ON. Then this application will also run successfully on a Palm Device with ARM Processror (and Palm OS version 6). Is this what you want to say? Almost. You

Re: SysAppLaunch

2004-06-15 Thread Ben Combee
At 03:10 AM 6/15/2004, Ingemar Bergmark wrote: Is there any documenation anywhere that describes how to use the launchFlags argument in SysAppLaunch()? I knowI'm only supposed to supply 0, but since it's there I guess that it's possible to use this in certain situations. I've scanned

Re: Porting 68K CW9 to ARM PACE application

2004-06-15 Thread Ben Combee
At 02:59 AM 6/15/2004, you wrote: But I am not able to open my 68K Code Warrior 9 project in PODS Alpha? You have to create a new project with your own source files. I need to verify that my application is compliable with version 6 SDK. Apps built to run in PACE use the Palm OS Garnet (5.x) SDK,

Re: Crashing on global find

2004-06-15 Thread Salli
thank you for thatI'll give it a go. Looks like there are lots of other useful apps there toothink I may have to bookmark that site! Thanks again, Salli Ben Combee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 11:15 AM 6/14/2004, you wrote: I've just recently bought a

Re: Porting 68K CW9 to ARM PACE application

2004-06-15 Thread Saurabh Agarwal
Hi, 1. I have created a new 68K application from PODS Alpha. 2. Then I Imported my resource file into the project. 3. Imported all the source files into the project. But when I Build my project, it gives the following errors: make: *** No rule to make target `clean'. make: *** No rule to make

Re: Crashing on global find

2004-06-15 Thread Salli
Found itthank you :) Salli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I've just recently bought a Tungsten T3 which I'm very happy. However, when I try and do a global find I get the dialog box pop up, enter the details, hit the ok button and then the Palm comes up with a

version control system

2004-06-15 Thread Annada Prasana
Hy all, can u help me geting the documentation for MWVCS,and i need to clear all about like visual source safe. Thankx Annada -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: about palm's future

2004-06-15 Thread Laurens
armada wrote: The palm device (e.g:Zire72,TE ...) quality is very bad in China.I don't know what it is on the others countries. Clie devices were made in China,too,but it is better than palm. I'm ready to buy Dell X3,and give up supporting palm. I agree that PalmOne's poor quality control of late

Re: about palm's future

2004-06-15 Thread Petr Stetina
Ben, I would like to see your response to the Palm's quility or this topic is out of the question from your point of view? Regards. Petr armada wrote: The palm device (e.g:Zire72,TE ...) quality is very bad in China.I don't know what it is on the others countries. Clie devices were made in

Re: about palm's future

2004-06-15 Thread Steve Jerrett
I see a more serious issue in Sony's announcement of their plans to discontinue their PalmOS devices. I know the spin is that there will be more of a push for do-it-all devices (smart phones, etc), but doesn't that necessitate keeping the screen tiny? An app that I developed for one of our

Re: about palm's future

2004-06-15 Thread David A. Desrosiers
I see a more serious issue in Sony's announcement of their plans to discontinue their PalmOS devices. I know the spin is that there will be more of a push for do-it-all devices (smart phones, etc), but doesn't that necessitate keeping the screen tiny? This reply was probably the most

Re: 'MemGluePtrNew'

2004-06-15 Thread Aryeh Teitelbaum
Thanks Ben. Aryeh Teitelbaum - Original Message - From: Ben Combee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 6:56 PM Subject: Re: 'MemGluePtrNew' At 12:49 PM 6/14/2004, you wrote: How a memory allocated by 'MemGluePtrNew', is freed ?

Re: Creating PDBs

2004-06-15 Thread Dave Lippincott
You could edit the PDB on your PC using any free hex editor and then sync the PDB back to the Palm. - Original Message - From: Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 9:43 PM Subject: Creating PDBs This

Re: Porting 68K CW9 to ARM PACE application

2004-06-15 Thread Saurabh Agarwal
Hello, as suggested in the news group: a) I have created a blank Managed Make 68K C/C++ Project. It also created a makefile automatically. b) I added all my source files to the project (from Import - File System). c) I added my CW9 .rsrc file ( from Import - Palm OS Resource File). My problems

Understanding File Streaming ?

2004-06-15 Thread Arrow
Trying to understand file streaming, i'm using POLs, CFile class, which is basically a thin wrapper over the streaming api. My usage of these calls is very basic, i first do a call like: Open(0,MyFile,'MYID','DATA',fileModeReadWrite); (FileOpen) ..then i read serial data in an event handler

Re: version control system

2004-06-15 Thread Ben Combee
At 05:35 AM 6/15/2004, you wrote: Hy all, can u help me geting the documentation for MWVCS,and i need to clear all about like visual source safe. The CodeWarrior environment supports several version control systems through IDE plugins. Details on the available plugins are at

Re: Porting 68K CW9 to ARM PACE application

2004-06-15 Thread Ben Combee
At 08:30 AM 6/15/2004, you wrote: Hello, as suggested in the news group: a) I have created a blank Managed Make 68K C/C++ Project. It also created a makefile automatically. b) I added all my source files to the project (from Import - File System). c) I added my CW9 .rsrc file ( from Import - Palm

Re: Understanding File Streaming ?

2004-06-15 Thread Ben Combee
At 09:00 AM 6/15/2004, you wrote: ...seems simple, and it does create a file, but not what i expected. My test created a 51k pdb file. I thought a streaming PDB would be one large record chunk of pure data, but that is not the case. It created 13 records of 4k (4096 bytes) each and there was some

Re: Understanding File Streaming ?

2004-06-15 Thread Arrow
Thanks Ben...as always :) ...i just wish in each record, the overhead bytes (ie. 'D','B','L','K',0x00,0x00,0x10,0x00) were at the beginning of each record instead of an increasing offset in each subsequent record by 1 ...can do the logic, but a pain ...anyway, i feel comfortable of being on the

Re: Understanding File Streaming ?

2004-06-15 Thread Ben Combee
At 09:39 AM 6/15/2004, you wrote: Thanks Ben...as always :) ...i just wish in each record, the overhead bytes (ie. 'D','B','L','K',0x00,0x00,0x10,0x00) were at the beginning of each record instead of an increasing offset in each subsequent record by 1 ...can do the logic, but a pain ...anyway, i

RE: tuts

2004-06-15 Thread David Beers
Coronado Enterprises (http://www.coronadoenterprises.com) has some decent programming language tutorials. There is a nominal cost. Any tutorial I've ever seen will assume that you are using the stdio library, though, which means the examples will use different functions from those in the Palm

Re: Understanding File Streaming ?

2004-06-15 Thread Arrow
...hate to waste bandwidth, but have to say thanks :) Ben Combee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 09:39 AM 6/15/2004, you wrote: Thanks Ben...as always :) ...i just wish in each record, the overhead bytes (ie. 'D','B','L','K',0x00,0x00,0x10,0x00) were at the

Re: Creating PDBs

2004-06-15 Thread Roger Stringer
Subject: Creating PDBs From: Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:43:04 -0700 This is sort of a newbie question but it's not. I need to create a static database that I distribute. The data was exported from a text table to CSV. I wrote a program to convert the CSV file to a file

Column alignment in a list

2004-06-15 Thread Dana Long
Greetings, I have a list with multiple columns. I would like more control over alignment but I don't want to use a table because I like having the scrolling handled for me. I use a ListDrawFunc to draw the list entries. The variable width font makes it impossible to just add spaces. Can

Re: Column alignment in a list

2004-06-15 Thread Ben Combee
At 12:06 PM 6/15/2004, you wrote: Greetings, I have a list with multiple columns. I would like more control over alignment but I don't want to use a table because I like having the scrolling handled for me. I use a ListDrawFunc to draw the list entries. The variable width font makes it

RES: Column alignment in a list

2004-06-15 Thread Desenvolvimento 3
You will need use a list custom draw function (page 375 of Palm OS Reference.pdf). Using this you will receive as parameter the number of the item to draw, the bounds of the list (relative to the window) and a pointer to an array of pointers to the text of the list items. Making a simple math

Slooooowwwww syncronizations (.pdb file with 30000 plus records)

2004-06-15 Thread Erik Norvelle
Greetings, I just posted a notice about my latin dictionary program... I have another question related to synchronizing the database files that go with my program. I use a method of creating a single record in my database for each word which is to be stored (and there are approximately 25000

Re: Slooooowwwww syncronizations (.pdb file with 30000 plus records)

2004-06-15 Thread Ben Combee
At 01:46 PM 6/15/2004, you wrote: Greetings, I just posted a notice about my latin dictionary program... I have another question related to synchronizing the database files that go with my program. I use a method of creating a single record in my database for each word which is to be stored

Field changed event

2004-06-15 Thread Dana Long
I'm implementing a search on a list and want the list to scroll as the user enters characters in the search field. If I look for a penDownEvent and then call FldGetTextPtr(), I get the text before the new character is inserted. I need it after the character is inserted. I know I can grab

Problems running my app on Tungsten (Field68K.c error)

2004-06-15 Thread Erik Norvelle
Greetings, I have been programming a latin dictionary as my first major Palm program, and since I have a Mac iBook to program on (and an old Visor to deploy on) I haven't been able to do any testing on a Tungsten device (or any other device with OS5). However, a user has written me back to

Re: Field changed event

2004-06-15 Thread Alan Jay Weiner
Just off the top of my head... I'd set a flag at keyDownEvent (flag set means got a key) Then at the next nilEvent, if the flag is set, do your list manipulations and clear the flag. - Al - -- original message -- I'm implementing a search on a list and want the list to scroll as the user

Re: No of pixels in a character string

2004-06-15 Thread Ken Krugler
Is this method Localization safe? If my application is in multiple languages, will method FntCharsWidth() work safely??? I could not find this method in Localization Guildelines. FntCharsWidth *IS* safe to use on a device, regardless of the character encoding or localization of the text. In

Re: Field changed event

2004-06-15 Thread Dale Hurtt
From the API: The field routine FldHandleEvent() sends this event [fldChangeEvent ] when the text of a field has or might have been scrolled. That explains why you are not getting the event. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Playing back MP3 sound files.

2004-06-15 Thread Peter Hamilton-Scott
Can anyone share or point me to any example code which plays wave file resources saved on the SD card? For example I would like the user to record their own alarm sound and the program would then use a wave file saved on the card. I'm assuming here wave files are simpler because it takes a

Re: Palm OS Developer Suite 1.0 Alpha Available

2004-06-15 Thread Chris Hurley
Am I correct in understanding that pnolet development hasn't been improved since the early preview release? I know you guys indicated that was the case, but just wanted to make sure something wonderful hadn't managed to sneak through? -Chris Hurley -- For information on using the Palm

closeing dialog programatically

2004-06-15 Thread Eric Potter
What is the best way to close a form programatically? I am displaying a form with FrmDoDialog. If the user doesn't respond in a certain amount of time, I need to close the dialog. How can I do this. thanks Eric -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Re: Palm OS Developer Suite 1.0 Alpha Available

2004-06-15 Thread Ben Combee
At 03:38 PM 6/15/2004, you wrote: Am I correct in understanding that pnolet development hasn't been improved since the early preview release? I know you guys indicated that was the case, but just wanted to make sure something wonderful hadn't managed to sneak through? PACE Native Object

Re: closeing dialog programatically

2004-06-15 Thread Dave Lippincott
Post the close form event. - Original Message - From: Eric Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 4:40 PM Subject: closeing dialog programatically What is the best way to close a form programatically?

Re: closeing dialog programatically

2004-06-15 Thread SLO Revo News
What is the best way to close a form programatically? I am displaying a form with FrmDoDialog. If the user doesn't respond in a certain amount of time, I need to close the dialog. How can I do this. One way to do that is to call CtlHitControl passing your preferred button after the delay

Re: closeing dialog programatically

2004-06-15 Thread Robert Moynihan
Eric Potter wrote: What is the best way to close a form programatically? I am displaying a form with FrmDoDialog. If the user doesn't respond in a certain amount of time, I need to close the dialog. How can I do this. thanks Eric FrmDoDialog won't let you do that. It uses its own event loop.

Re: Palm OS Developer Suite 1.0 Alpha Available

2004-06-15 Thread Ben Combee
At 03:40 PM 6/15/2004, you wrote: At 03:38 PM 6/15/2004, you wrote: Am I correct in understanding that pnolet development hasn't been improved since the early preview release? I know you guys indicated that was the case, but just wanted to make sure something wonderful hadn't managed to sneak

Callback data

2004-06-15 Thread Ingemar Bergmark
Hi, Many routines that use callback functions (ex. SndStreamCreate) allow the developer to have access to global data by passing a pointer to that data. If I pass a pointer to a struct, can that struct in turn have pointers elsewhere, or does the struct always have to be self-contained? Also,

Re: Callback data

2004-06-15 Thread Ben Combee
At 06:27 PM 6/15/2004, you wrote: Many routines that use callback functions (ex. SndStreamCreate) allow the developer to have access to global data by passing a pointer to that data. If I pass a pointer to a struct, can that struct in turn have pointers elsewhere, or does the struct always have

Re: closeing dialog programatically

2004-06-15 Thread Tim Kostka
If you use a custom event handler you can use FrmDoDialog and respond to any events you want. It requires an extra 10 lines of code or so, but it'll do exactly what you want. -- Tim Kostka http://www.nuprograms.com Robert Moynihan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric

Re: Slooooowwwww syncronizations (.pdb file with 30000 plus records)

2004-06-15 Thread LionScribe
Also, what a huge amount of wasted overhead, I believe around 18 bytes per record. (18 * 3 = 540,000). Try using DmDatabaseSize and see the difference between the totalBytes and the dataBytes. I would suggest combining 200 words per record, and storing the offset. Also, with Databases that

Re[2]: Palm OS Developer Suite 1.0 Alpha Available

2004-06-15 Thread Roberto Machorro
Hi Tuesday, June 15, 2004, 6:16:56 PM, you wrote: And updating myself... I misspoke when I said that PNO debugging was integrated into the PODS IDE. You still need to use the standalone version of Palm OS Debugger (included with PODS) to debug PACE Native Objects. Too good to be true, I had

SysGetOrientation

2004-06-15 Thread Marc A. Lepage
My understanding is that this API is supported on OS 5.3 and later, and maybe supported on earlier devices (e.g. some Clies). What I'm interested in, is are there any 480x320 devices, where the user CANNOT change the system orientation (like they can in Tungsten T3)? I ask this because I was

SQL on palm

2004-06-15 Thread \[ a | x \] - Peter Alex
Hello experts, I need advice whether it is possible to use any database on palmOS which supports SQL syntax? if it is, what it should be? I need for maintaining a some relational datasets. if it is not, then what is your suggestion? thanks, Peter

RE: SQL on palm

2004-06-15 Thread Ricardo Birmele
The only way you're going to be able to use SQL and the Palm together AFAIK, is to use HB++. It comes with a SQL engine built in. www.handheld-basic.com . Give it a try! __Birm PS: I'm not affiliated with them in any commercial way other than being a satisfied customer. I've also become a big

re: SysGetOrientation

2004-06-15 Thread Ben Combee
Yes. The Sony CLIE UX40 and UX50 are fixed in a 480x320 (landscape) orientation, while the Sony CLIE-TH55 is fixed in a 320x480 (portrait) orientation. All of these devices run Palm OS 5.2.1. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Re: SQL on palm

2004-06-15 Thread SLO Revo News
I need advice whether it is possible to use any database on palmOS which supports SQL syntax? if it is, what it should be? I need for maintaining a some relational datasets. You might want to take a look at SQLAnywhere from Sybase. I believe that IBM also offers a Palm-compatible SQL database