Re: RAD tools

2005-03-08 Thread David Orriss Jr
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 07:34:58 -, DenKar GamaSeven wrote: Hello, I'm new to PalmOS development, and I'm looking for a nice RAD environment. Given my budget, about $200, I have these candidates: http://www.handheld-basic.com http://www.orbworks.com/orbforms/index.html

Need the Expense database sample code...

2005-02-28 Thread David Orriss Jr
Hi, Can someone please give me a link to download the Expense database code example? I need to write to the expense database and the code example is no longer part of the SDK distribution (and I don't have the older SDK any more that includes it). -- DavidO My blog:

Re: Need the Expense database sample code...

2005-02-28 Thread David Orriss Jr
Douglas Handy wrote: David, Can someone please give me a link to download the Expense database code example? I'm not sure the Expense application was ever part of the examples which were released. At least my archived copy of the OS4 examples does not include the expense

Re: Need the Expense database sample code...

2005-02-28 Thread David Orriss Jr
David Orriss Jr wrote: Douglas Handy wrote: David, Can someone please give me a link to download the Expense database code example? I'm not sure the Expense application was ever part of the examples which were released. At least my archived copy of the OS4 examples does

Re: Need the Expense database sample code...

2005-02-28 Thread David Orriss Jr
Ray Heindl wrote: It was in the 3.5 SDK examples that I downloaded a while back. Unfortunately I don't remember where I found that download, but I could send the expense part if needed. Please do. Send it to codethought at gmail dot com (replacing the 'at' and 'dot' and removing the spaces

Re: Program running in the background?

2005-02-07 Thread David Orriss Jr
Cameron McCormack wrote: Does that mean I can't write a program to run in the background? Pretty much. You can write programs to respond to events and register them with the OS. But you can't have a 'background' app because the PalmOS core only allows a single thread of execution for

Re: C++ for Palm -- getting started.

2005-01-10 Thread David Orriss Jr
David Orriss Jr wrote: On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 06:14:31 -, awais khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It can be ported to OS6, the only defficency is that it lackes the new feactures of OS6. The other of POL said he won't be porting it to OS6... DavidO My blog: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/daorriss

Re: C++ for Palm -- getting started.

2005-01-08 Thread David Orriss Jr
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 06:14:31 -, awais khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It can be ported to OS6, the only defficency is that it lackes the new feactures of OS6. The other of POL said he won't be porting it to OS6... DavidO My blog: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/daorriss/ My PalmOS apps:

Re: Metrowerks new version?

2005-01-08 Thread David Orriss Jr
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:35:16 -0500, Palm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any plans for Metrowerks to come out with a new CodeWarrior version 10 for Palm? Nope. Ben having left Metrowerks to go to PalmSource should have been a clear indicator of that.. ;) DavidO My blog:

Re: I'm newbie. Difference w/ types of projects in Developer suite?

2005-01-08 Thread David Orriss Jr
On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 20:16:05 -0600, Ben Combee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Palm OS Cobalt has been available to licensees since early 2004, but it just hasn't shipped on any devices yet. And *why* is that? I think that's the question we all keep asking ourselves.. DavidO My blog:

Re: Doing floating point math in Palm..?

2005-01-04 Thread David Orriss Jr
Ralph Curtis wrote: Check out http://www.davidbray.org/palm/dtostr.html and http://www.davidbray.org/palm/strtod.html The functions are strToDouble and doubleToStr - I got the name wrong from memory. The functions I use - quite successfully - are based on David's algorithms. I include them here:

Re: C++ for Palm -- getting started.

2005-01-03 Thread David Orriss Jr
awais khan wrote: I hve already a experience of OOP (related to MFC), so for implementing it on PalmOS I hve used Object Library for PalmOS (POL www.pollib.com). Last I heard this won't be ported to OS6. Is that still the case? If so, it's a darn shame.. :( -- DavidO My blog:

Doing floating point math in Palm..?

2005-01-03 Thread David Orriss Jr
Can someone point to a few links or resources on how to take data from fields and do decimal arithmetic on them? I'm having a hard time figuring out of I should use the Fpl... or Flp.. routines or if (as I have heard) they are 'buggy' and I need to write my own (which would suck). Thanks. --

Re: Doing floating point math in Palm..?

2005-01-03 Thread David Orriss Jr
Ralph Curtis wrote: Seems that most people use MathLib for intensive floating point work. Also provides trig functions. You might also search the archives for DoubleToString and StringToDouble algorithms that people have posted a number of times. I managed to find a version of DoubleToString in

Re: Load Field object from tStr?

2005-01-02 Thread David Orriss Jr
After talking with a far more advanced Palm developer than myself he suggested some changes that stopped all the nasty fatal crashes I was having... (Thanks to him again). I've taken the code that updates the field and isolated it into it's own routine, and changed the code to pull the tStr

Load Field object from tStr?

2004-12-31 Thread David Orriss Jr
I have a String resource with some version history information in it. I want to load that into a field on a page in my application. Can someone show me a code snippet to do that, or at least tell me what API calls to consider? Thanks much. -- For information on using the Palm Developer

Re: Load Field object from tStr?

2004-12-31 Thread David Orriss Jr
David Orriss Jr wrote: I have a String resource with some version history information in it. I want to load that into a field on a page in my application. Can someone show me a code snippet to do that, or at least tell me what API calls to consider? Thanks much. I figured it out

Re: An update on the Palm OS developer site

2004-12-26 Thread David Orriss Jr
Ben Combee wrote: The other problem that's shown up has been issues with the creator ID registration. People are reporting that their account survived the transfer, but some or all of their creator IDs aren't associated with them. We need to review how this data was transferred, and I'm

Re: problems with PalmOS_Garnet_Update_68K_R1.zip

2004-12-26 Thread David Orriss Jr
Regis St-Gelais wrote: (i'm on XP pro SP2, and I unzipped the file with winzip 9) Thanks and Merry Christmas to all. Have you tried rebooting in Safe mode? -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Palm OS Developer Program

2004-12-25 Thread David Orriss Jr
Apparently I spoke too soon. My Creator IDs are also all gone! :( David Orriss Jr wrote: Ben, Got off the phone with Laura Hanlan a few minutes ago. She was VERY helpful and got my account problems sorted out. Thanks for the assist, Laura and Ben! On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:01:15AM -0500, Ben

Re: Palm OS Developer Program

2004-12-23 Thread David Orriss Jr
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Re: Palm OS Developer Program

2004-12-22 Thread David Orriss Jr
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PODS and coding forms

2004-12-17 Thread David Orriss Jr
Am I correct in assuming, based on what I see, that when I create a form with the resource designer via PODS that I have to hand-code any support events that tools like Falch template out? I'm not trying to be critical, just trying to understand the tool. Thanks. -- David Orriss Jr

Re: PODS and coding forms

2004-12-17 Thread David Orriss Jr
So I'm correct.. ;) OK.. thanks... On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:39:55AM -0800, Eric Cloninger wrote: The resource editor does not generate any C source code. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Orriss Jr Sent: Friday

Re: Palm OS's Future

2004-11-13 Thread David Orriss Jr
mike margerum wrote: I just dont understand their licensing strategy. Why not license it to anyone who wants to build devices around it without ridiculous startup fees and minimum sales contracts. I can download m$'s platform builder and start building devices today. Let Dell take a whack at

Re: is anyone *making* an OS 6 device yet?

2004-11-02 Thread David Orriss Jr
Ben Combee wrote: At 03:44 PM 10/30/2004, you wrote: Now that Sony is leaving the PDA market the only other vendor I see who might be doing anything with it is PalmOne. Has anyone heard anything? I mean.. here we are at OS 6.1 and *still* no word from what I've seen.. :-/ The only public

is anyone *making* an OS 6 device yet?

2004-10-30 Thread David Orriss Jr
Now that Sony is leaving the PDA market the only other vendor I see who might be doing anything with it is PalmOne. Has anyone heard anything? I mean.. here we are at OS 6.1 and *still* no word from what I've seen.. :-/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe,

Re: C/C++ and java

2004-09-27 Thread David Orriss Jr
Ben Combee wrote: At 03:19 PM 9/27/2004, you wrote: I would like to know the advantages/disadvantages of using either C/C++ or Java(J2ME) for Palm programming. Would the use of one language (ie Java) preclude me from doing certain things in the Palm environment. Would anyone provide some

Re: (Palm) How to distribute new IDE..

2004-02-23 Thread David Orriss Jr
I just wanna know if a timeline for the release of it has been established yet. This waiting is getting monotonous... :( Eron Hennessey wrote: David A. Desrosiers wrote: The other way is to just use a series of 'good sized' .zip files, that way you don't need to download WinZip 8.1.

Re: Palm OS Developer Suíte - Now Availab le ?

2004-02-19 Thread David Orriss Jr
Jim Cooper wrote: You don't have to use cygwin. When I installed prc-tools to use with C++BuilderX I had to install cygwin and do some manual stuff. Cygwin didn't install cleanly right off the bat either (IIRC it would only install in one place, which wasn't where I wanted to put it). You

Re: Guess what's available for download... :)))

2004-02-19 Thread David Orriss Jr
Flex wrote: But the ftp is not working at the moment - socket error. Me=(MeType *)happy :)) WHERE -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Palm OS Developer Suíte - Now Available ?

2004-02-18 Thread David Orriss Jr
Jim Cooper wrote: i'd die without vi :) Source code editors have moved on just slightly since then. In fact, as I recall, they moved on pretty sharpish **because** of vi :-) you dont need huge convoluted makefiles. :) I don't need them at all unless I use prc-tools/gcc. Makefiles aren't large

Re: Development tool based on VB

2004-02-05 Thread David Orriss Jr
NSBasic. It's all-around a better system than Appforge. It makes apps that look and feel like PalmOS apps (Appforge doesn't), it's got a smaller runtime, and it's faster.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have made an application in VB 6.0 and EVB 3.0 for PC and Pocket PC 2002/2003

writing doc files...

2004-01-27 Thread David Orriss Jr
Does anyone have a C code example of doing this they can share?? TIA -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: writing doc files...

2004-01-27 Thread David Orriss Jr
David Orriss Jr wrote: Does anyone have a C code example of doing this they can share?? TIA Nevermind.. Kicked my newsgroup reader and found a previous posting with what I was looking for.. thanks anyway! -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Re: writing doc files...

2004-01-27 Thread David Orriss Jr
Douglas Handy wrote: David, Does anyone have a C code example of doing this they can share?? Do you mean specifically on a Palm OS device? Or just in general? Specifically on the PalmOS device... -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Re: Have a way to identificy a unique palm device?

2004-01-26 Thread David Orriss Jr
Aaron Ardiri wrote: There's code out there to do that, but it only works up thru PalmOS 4.x. OS5 changes the database type and people haven't been brave enough to try to modify that data... wrong. nothing changed. Oh really? My bad... I had read in other forums that it *had* changed

Re: Have a way to identificy a unique palm device?

2004-01-26 Thread David Orriss Jr
Douglas Handy wrote: When programming in C and using a PNOlet, the compiler takes care of those since the typedef did not change. When using a language like NSB/Palm from m68k code, you need to account for those variations yourself because the compiler doesn't. Doug So if you're accessing these

Re: Have a way to identificy a unique palm device?

2004-01-26 Thread David Orriss Jr
Douglas Handy wrote: Yes, because the shared lib will be compiled using a m68k compiler using 16-bit alignment of subfields in the typedef, and using m68k compatible endian. You are trying to directly access what the OS intends to use internally, which now uses the native architecture. I

Re: Have a way to identificy a unique palm device?

2004-01-25 Thread David Orriss Jr
Alexander Lange wrote: Hello folks, Regis St-Gelais schrieb: DlkGetSyncInfo(NULL,NULL,NULL,strpUserName,NULL,NULL); Does anybody know how I can SET the user name? I found no API call for this. Is it possible on the device? Thanks, Alexander. There's code out there to do that, but it only

Re: development tool for making app. in Palm OS

2004-01-19 Thread David Orriss Jr
Flex wrote: AppForge MobileVB is what you are looking for. NSBasic is also a basic clone but appforge is better. AppForge is slower than NSBasic, has a larger runtime, requires owning VB in order to use it, and produces apps that don't look anything *like* PalmOS apps because it's runtime

Re: development tool for making app. in Palm OS

2004-01-19 Thread David Orriss Jr
... I've heard that HB++ is blazing fast but no time to check. David Orriss Jr wrote: Flex wrote: AppForge MobileVB is what you are looking for. NSBasic is also a basic clone but appforge is better. AppForge is slower than NSBasic, has a larger runtime, requires owning VB in order to use

Re: how to access the news.palmos.com archive!

2004-01-19 Thread David Orriss Jr
Dave Lippincott wrote: you set it yourself. the forum help page has the info... For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ Perhaps someone can tell me why I get the following error in Agent when I try

Re: Code Warrior vs DeveloperStudio

2004-01-12 Thread David Orriss Jr
Jim Cooper wrote: Which development tool is better amongst Code Warrior vs DeveloperStudio ? DS essentially is a wrapper around prc-tools. CW is a complete environment and compiler. If you want to use prc-tools you can also use Borland C++BuilderX. If you want to avoid C/C++, then there is

Falch Developer Studio...?

2003-11-30 Thread David Orriss Jr
Does anyone know what happened to Falch Developer Studio? -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Falch Developer Studio...?

2003-11-30 Thread David Orriss Jr
Aaron Ardiri wrote: there you go :) thank god that someone archives the web :) Unfortunately, that someone doesn't archive the files that were on the website. At least then I could get 2.6.1 and re-apply my key to it. Guess I'll bite the bullet after the first of the year and get

Re: This forum has no [palm-dev] in the subject, why not?

2003-01-17 Thread David Orriss Jr
filtering techniques. One of those should work fine. -- David Orriss Jr. Please email me if you want my ICQ/AIM/IM ID's. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: NSBasic

2002-12-12 Thread David Orriss Jr
' based). So what you end up with is standard pascal for writing PalmOS apps in. And that's OK if that's what you're looking for. I wouldn't get *too* excited about Pocket Studio tho. Last I heard they're having some problems - their product isn't selling all that well. -- David Orriss Jr

Re: using Visual Basic to program Palm OS [long]

2002-12-12 Thread David Orriss Jr
sense, there really is no such thing as a 'standard' BASIC. -- David Orriss Jr. http://www.davenet.net http://www.codeskanks.com Please email me if you want my ICQ/AIM/IM ID's. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev

Re: using Visual Basics to program Palm OS [long]

2002-12-12 Thread David Orriss Jr
, but this recommendation is *totally* out of left field, IMHO. -- David Orriss Jr. http://www.davenet.net http://www.codeskanks.com Please email me if you want my ICQ/AIM/IM ID's. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support

HE330 developers.. how do you do it?

2002-09-03 Thread David Orriss Jr
A question for those of you (if any) who are developing QVGA-compatible apps for the HandEra 330. Are you using the API calls to size the forms to fit the screen, or are you making forms that are 240x320 duplicates of your current forms? -- David Orriss Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: prc-tools and SDK 5.0

2002-09-01 Thread David Orriss Jr
with GCC is 4.1 - which *again* leads to the question of when will the PalmOS 5.0 SDK be converted to work with GCC. That answer is when the PalmOSGlue libraries are updated by Palm to work with GCC. So when is that going to happen? Tell John Marshall and then we'll *all* know.. :) -- David Orriss Jr

Re: prc-tools 2.2 released (ARM)

2002-08-20 Thread David Orriss Jr
John, Pardon the newbie-ish question, but how difficult is it to put the latest PRC tools in with Falch.net developer studio 2.6? On the surface it doesn't seem all that bad, but the last thing I want to do is hose the IDE :) Thanks. -- David Orriss Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http