Re: 4.x Suggestion

2001-06-08 Thread Terry Dennis
Keith: > I think I probably "spoke" too quickly. I'm now thinking that > setting a control's frame style is not supported for the standard > controls. Buttons and PushButtons get standard frames, and others > get no frame. I think that's the standard UI that CtlNewControl is > trying to enforc

Re: 4.x Suggestion

2001-06-08 Thread Keith Rollin
At 2:38 PM -0700 6/8/01, Terry Dennis wrote: >I can't even find a way to create the FIRST control with "noFrame". > >I have a fairly sophisticated application that uses dynamically created >forms, containing dynamically created controls, all deteremined by dynamic >User Interface action, driven by

Re: 4.x Suggestion

2001-06-08 Thread Terry Dennis
Aaron: Thanks for your response ... > .. maybe a better solution to these > types of problems is to actually have a function like: > > CtlGetAbstractAttributes() > BINGO !! Palm defined th bits and values being stored/accessed in objects for a reason. And, if they needed it to control

Re: 4.x Suggestion

2001-06-08 Thread Terry Dennis
Keith: Thanks for the response. > I think that the "official" way to do this is to create multiple > versions of the button you need with the frame attributes you need, > and then show only the one you want. Wasteful, awkward, yes, but I > don't think that setting the frame attribute is supporte

Re: 4.x Suggestion

2001-06-08 Thread Aaron Ardiri
> >ControlAttrType: I can't find a POSE "safe" way to set the frame attribute > >for buttons. > > I think that the "official" way to do this is to create multiple > versions of the button you need with the frame attributes you need, > and then show only the one you want. Wasteful, awkward, ye

Re: 4.x Suggestion

2001-06-08 Thread Keith Rollin
Terry, At 11:22 AM -0700 6/8/01, Terry Dennis wrote: >ControlAttrType: I can't find a POSE "safe" way to set the frame attribute >for buttons. I think that the "official" way to do this is to create multiple versions of the button you need with the frame attributes you need, and then show onl

Re: 4.x Suggestion

2001-06-08 Thread Terry Dennis
Thanks for the response. Please add the following to your list of needed glue routines. ControlAttrType: I can't find a POSE "safe" way to set the frame attribute for buttons. ControlType: need to determine which group a control is in. I guess the "simple" solution is to look at POSE's list of

Re: 4.x Suggestion

2001-06-08 Thread George Aslanis
Getting tidbits of information like PalmOSGlue's version checking is what makes this a great resource. Hope we continue to see more inside info. Thanks to the group "David Fedor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:52290@palm-dev-forum... > > >If we're going to be restricted in wh

Re: 4.x Suggestion

2001-06-08 Thread David Fedor
>If we're going to be restricted in what we can access, at least provide us a >legal method to retrieve what we put there through legal methods. Thanks for the suggestions. I'm actually meeting later on today with some people to talk about how we can add more such accessor routines into the Palm

4.x Suggestion

2001-06-08 Thread Terry Dennis
Palm OS is tightening down access to internal structures, as evidenced by the increased error checking in POSE. That's a good thing, and I wish it had been done earlier. However, for this "isolated data" concept to work properly, we have to be provided routines that perform the same functions as