Re: application pushing data to a remote database

2006-03-07 Thread Butch Howard
http://www.intellisync.com/pages/Solutions/By-Business-Need/Application-Data-Mobilization/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, Please i would like to write a palm application using GPRS which push data to a remote database.IS there any function which may facilitate my work ? All your advic

DmSearchRecord on OS 5.4.x

2006-03-02 Thread Butch Howard
Are there any known problems with using DmSearchRecord on the newer devices? LocalID dblocalid; dblocalid = DmFindDatabase (0, databasename); if ( dblocalid == 0 ) { return; } DmOpenRef db; db = DmOpenDatabase( 0, dblocalid, dmModeReadWrite ); if ( db == 0

PalmOS6, PACE, and Schema Databases

2004-06-11 Thread Butch Howard
Is it possible for a PACE app to access the Schema databases on a Cobalt device (in any way: directly or via PNO)? -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

RE: i need a suggetion for my recoeds...

2000-10-12 Thread Butch Howard
The code is wrong, but not for the reason given. test[cDataNeeded] is exactly cDataNeeded cells long (8 in this case). The problem is that "012345678" is 10 cells in length: the nine chars visible between the quotation marks plus one for the null byte implicit at the end of a string literal. >

RE: how to change array of struct inside struct

2000-10-05 Thread Butch Howard
If this is for a database record I would NOT define the storeID as part of the struct. I would instead just define the database to start with this struct followed by a list of storeID structs to the limit of the record size. If this is for an in memory block (say that would be read from the rec

RE: Employees want to Sync away from Office, What does IS need t o know??

2000-09-29 Thread Butch Howard
http://www.synchrologic.com Butch Howard Synchrologic, Inc Suite 650 200 North Point Center East Alpharetta, GA 30022 770 754 5600 > Where can my Information systems dept. go to find information about > wireless synchronization? > For example... employees want to start using check

RE: Which pointer type to use when accessing a record?

2000-09-25 Thread Butch Howard
cast it as an unsigned char* (which is a single byte), do your own pointer arithmetic, cast the result back to whatever you want it to be. > -Original Message- > From: Jacob Vitas Vogelstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 10:26 AM > To: Palm Developer Forum

RE: "switch may be too large" Assembler error - What is that ??

2000-09-18 Thread Butch Howard
I couldn't find it either. Try this link instead: http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/TSpaces/Pilot/NTRAS.html > thanks for your reply to my question. unfortunately, i can't > find the document you are referring > to. i've tried to search for 'RAS', 'remote access server', > 'RAS settings',etc.

RE: PalmSource pricing inconsistency

2000-09-14 Thread Butch Howard
So will they give U.S. attendees a discount to the European Palm Source events? > But there is a significant cost difference for international > travelers. I am > assuming that Palm is just trying to level the costs a bit. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscrib

RE: Source Code Resource?

2000-09-05 Thread Butch Howard
I have only recently looked into source forge, have not hosted any projects there, and only thought of them for as an answer for the original message because I recalled their 'code snippets' repository that seemed to suit the need. > the "dead" project. If I am the author, and decide to move my

RE: Source Code Resource?

2000-09-05 Thread Butch Howard
sourceforge.net has a repository for code snippets (in addition to its main purpose of hosting entire projects). Assuming the snippets you post are being given up as PD or with an Open Source/Free Software license, you should be able to post them there. Source Forge also hosts a number of intere

RE: The Mighty Morphin Function Stack

2000-09-01 Thread Butch Howard
> When I get rid of the last four fields in the struct, the > program works as expected and no functions are dropped from the stack. Let's see some code. I will bet 1 container of your favorite liquid refreshment that populating one of these last fields is munging the stack (array overrun, data

RE: Table Code giving weird Error

2000-08-30 Thread Butch Howard
if (!gHandles[i][j]) > return false missing ; after false -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

RE: Codewarrior and Function Prototypes warning. Lesson learned.

2000-08-24 Thread Butch Howard
As my son loves to quote from _Galaxy Quest_: OHHH! That's not right!! but that's just me expecting NULL to be a pointer and a char assignment to require char, period. Interestingly, VC does it like this: #ifdef __cplusplus #define NULL0 #else #define NULL((void *)0) #endif I s

RE: Codewarrior and Function Prototypes warning. Lesson learned.

2000-08-24 Thread Butch Howard
I think this is the fault of the #define for the NULL macro. A grep for the files installed with CW Palm R6 shows these defines in various files: #define NULL 0 #define NULL 0L #define NULL (void*)0 Of these (IMO), the only correct one is (void*)0. The worst of the lot is the simple 0, which h

RE: Hotsyncd.exe debug error DAMGAE

2000-08-21 Thread Butch Howard
It definitely means something is writing data where it should not be (array overrun, assigning vales to an object that has already been deleted, etc. ). This is a message from the runtime memory allocation functions that tells you something overwrote memory where it should not have. The damage

RE: effeciency of DmGetRecord

2000-08-17 Thread Butch Howard
Assuming that the traversal is something like check element at index if id != myrecordid keep looking then the time factor would be kO(1) where k is the number of record lists or if the traversal requires each element in the record list to be checked then the time is actually O(n

Re: HELP!: Hotsync Server Question

2000-08-11 Thread Butch Howard
Synchrologic iMobile Suite Butch Howard Synchrologic, Inc. http://www.synchrologic.com > >You can sync wirelessly using Omnisky/PalmV and Aether's ScoutSync. >ScoutSync is comparable to HotSync Server as far as features - and I am sure >in price as well :-( -- For inf

Re: FAQ

2000-08-11 Thread Butch Howard
Instead of posting the entire FAQ, just post a reminder that many questions are answered in the Knowlege Base and in the list archives along with links to those things and a gentle suggestion that they should be reviewed before posting new questions to the list. The list of links might also incl

Re: Drawling questons

2000-07-18 Thread Butch Howard
Of course, the drawling functions only work on devices used in Texas... >As a novice, I need help of drawling on the Palm. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Re: How to 'shadow' Net Library?

2000-07-14 Thread Butch Howard
3) Uses a separate thread for i/o processing which your replacement library will not be able to do. This will require your code to me modified to have some kind of pump function to give the library some i/o time. -Original Message- From: gcw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Palm Developer Forum

Re: Multi-user HotSyncing

2000-07-12 Thread Butch Howard
Start here, since we have already done the work for you. Butch Howard Synchrologic, Inc. http://www.synchrologic.com -Original Message- From: Curtis Scoville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, July 1

Re: CW command line?

2000-07-12 Thread Butch Howard
Yes! That fixed it. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Jun-Kiat Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 5:35 PM Subject: RE: CW command line? If you are using the original straight-from-the-CD R5 then the command-line switches wo

Re: CW command line?

2000-07-11 Thread Butch Howard
Thanks for the doc! I have tried these switches with CW(R5). It opens the project, but does not build it. Any suggesitons what I might be doing wrong? Command lines I have tried: ..\CodeWarrior\Bin>ide.exe /t foo /r /b /c /q /s "e:\dev\foo\foo.mcp" ..\CodeWarrior\Bin>ide.exe /r /b /c /q /s "

CW command line?

2000-07-11 Thread Butch Howard
Is there a way to build a project using CW(R5 or R6) using a make file or command-line driven build process so the project can be built as part of an automated build system? -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/supp

tcp or IR

2000-06-15 Thread Butch Howard
Does the netlib libary allow you to use the ir port in a socket connection in the same way that it allows you to use the cradle connection when writing sockets code? -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/foru

Re: NS BASIC announces Palm Programming Contest!

2000-06-08 Thread Butch Howard
Earn Rent, then Earn Glory So sayeth my boss: she who must be obeyed. >enough applicants. Besides who needs prizes, whatever happened to winning >for the glory of it. > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/su

Re: Number of Fields

2000-06-07 Thread Butch Howard
Ick, Ack, Pffft! Better use a null byte (0x00) since you must surely be assuming all string data. The null is less likely to conflict than any other byte value. However, if you have a mixed set of numeric and string data and you do not want to store the numerics as strings then something so sim

Re: Number of Fields

2000-06-07 Thread Butch Howard
The PalmOS provides no structure below the record level. If you are working with a database for an app you created you know the number of fields or know how to determine them based on the record structure you defined. If you are working with a database for an app not under your control you have

Re: dlls and some design thoughts

2000-06-01 Thread Butch Howard
This should also work in a DLL. If the DLL is your conduit or a function in a DLL called by your conduit, you should do this is a new thread, establish an event in the conduit thread, enter a checkevent&sleep loop, and on each interation through the loop ping the hotsync API so that the hotsync s

Re: Firewall

2000-05-31 Thread Butch Howard
e are any other method to cope with it? > >"Butch Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >news:12839@palm-dev-forum... >> >> Your IT admin will need to open a hole in the firewall for the specific >port >> on the specfic IP address to which

Re: Firewall

2000-05-30 Thread Butch Howard
Your IT admin will need to open a hole in the firewall for the specific port on the specfic IP address to which you want to connect. -Original Message- From: Jason Zhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, May 29, 2000 1

Re: Working with "files"

2000-05-23 Thread Butch Howard
being replaced is being run we simply replace the existing app with the new app. Butch Howard Synchrologic, Inc. http://www.synchrologic.com -Original Message- From: Steve Branin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 2:2

Eudora Email and Web Browser for Palm

2000-05-23 Thread Butch Howard
http://www.eudora.com/internetsuite/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/

Re: Object vs Strings

2000-05-22 Thread Butch Howard
As long as you make sure the struct are packed and you handle byte-order differences between Intel and Motorola you can use the same struct definitions in the palm app and the conduit. In the conduit (VC++) use this pragma before the structs header #pragma pack(push, 1) and this one at the en

Re: Bit packing and endianess

2000-05-19 Thread Butch Howard
There's no switch to tell VC to do it the other way. >Just wondering if there is a compiler directive to tell VC++ to pack those >bits starting at the msb. It doesn't really seem like an endianess issue but >rather a compiler preference issue. -- For information on using the Palm Developer F

Re: UUID/GUID

2000-05-18 Thread Butch Howard
Certainly if you are on a Windows machine, the easiest way to get a GUID is to call the CoCreateGuid() function. If you want to create the values on the Palm device, you have to come up with something that will spit out 128 bits that are reasonably certain of being unique. Note that GUIDs in Wi

Re: UUID/GUID

2000-05-18 Thread Butch Howard
It should be adequate to use a quality PseudoRandom Number Generator (PRNG) to spit out 128 bits of data. Seed the PRNG with something that likely to be unique on a given device; throw as many things into the seed as are available. Maybe (just tossing out an idea) build a checksum of the bytes i

Re: Display HTML??

2000-05-17 Thread Butch Howard
See the last paragraph of this article: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36051,00.html Perhaps the code the Stanford group developed is available in some form. >Is there a way to display HTML/XML with the palm OS, I know that the >"readers" have accomplished this, but is there a way

Re: Wrapping operator new/delete for memory leak detection

2000-05-17 Thread Butch Howard
If CW does not support the RTTI conventions of ANSI C++ (it might I have not checked), or if you do not want the huge overhead RTTI might force, you will need to create that base class and have in it a class name member along with new() and delete() overrides that call the global new() and delete(

Re: wireless TCP/IP with Pilot

2000-05-11 Thread Butch Howard
What type of phone and connector did you use with the sprint wireless web? Does your app use anything other than the standard NetLib functions to make the tcp/ip connection using that setup? -Original Message- From: Laurence Lundblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL P

Re: wireless TCP/IP with Pilot

2000-05-11 Thread Butch Howard
There's more (or actually less) to it than that. Using the special INetLib you can access anything via palm.net as long as you only use either the HTTP or HTTPS protocols. While that is fine for a number of applications, my app and many others, really need raw TCP/IP. Getting a connection that

Re: Conduit Question

2000-05-10 Thread Butch Howard
No, its not. We chose to treat this as an opportunity to have advertising on the palm. We created a an that does nothing but show an about box with the product name and company info. >Is it possible to write a conduit and have it called by HotSync Manager that >does *not* have a corresponding ap

Re: wireless TCP/IP with Pilot

2000-05-10 Thread Butch Howard
>Just for example, this morning Qualcomm and Sprint announced data service >trials at 144kpbs. I will not hazard a prediction when or where in the >world such service will roll out. My point was mainly that native TCP/IP >has a bright future for wireless and once you develop with it you can use >l

Re: wireless TCP/IP with Pilot

2000-05-10 Thread Butch Howard
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Laurence >Lundblade >Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 12:26 PM >To: Palm Developer Forum >Subject: Re: wireless TCP/IP with Pilot > > >At 02:37 PM 5/9/00 -0400, Butch Howard wrote: > >>Do any of the existing wireless products allow for true

Re: wireless TCP/IP with Pilot

2000-05-10 Thread Butch Howard
Is it straight TCP/IP socket code or something else? -Original Message- From: B. Flaumenhaft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 2:29 PM Subject: Re: wireless TCP/IP with Pilot > >It's *very* sensitive. This is true of Palm soft

Re: wireless TCP/IP with Pilot

2000-05-10 Thread Butch Howard
What are the annoyannces? -Original Message- From: B. Flaumenhaft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 1:38 PM Subject: Re: wireless TCP/IP with Pilot > >You can also purchase one of the wireless-enabled Palms, e.g. the Symbol >

Re: wireless TCP/IP with Pilot

2000-05-10 Thread Butch Howard
D]> Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 12:29 PM Subject: Re: wireless TCP/IP with Pilot >At 02:37 PM 5/9/00 -0400, Butch Howard wrote: > >>Do any of the existing wireless products allow for true TCP/IP connectivity >>to a Palm Pilot? Can I connect to any server on the global Interne

wireless TCP/IP with Pilot

2000-05-09 Thread Butch Howard
I want to have my app use a custom protocol over TCP/IP to exchange data with my custom application server. I can do this using a Pilot and a modem going to a phone line by dialing up an ISP or an in-house RAS server. I would like to be able to do it with wireless. Is it possible now? Do any o