Re: Interesting way to Fatal-Error in Form.c

2001-07-23 Thread Alex Robinson
Peter Epstein wrote: > > I think I ran into this same problem several years ago. I had an about > dialog that I presented when the app was first run. When the dialog was > closed, I used FrmReturnToForm. At first, I had this full screen dialog open > right away, but this caused problems when clos

RE: Interesting way to Fatal-Error in Form.c

2001-07-23 Thread Peter Epstein
I think I ran into this same problem several years ago. I had an about dialog that I presented when the app was first run. When the dialog was closed, I used FrmReturnToForm. At first, I had this full screen dialog open right away, but this caused problems when closing the about dialog. So, I chan

Re: Interesting way to Fatal-Error in Form.c

2001-07-20 Thread Alex Robinson
Oh, gosh, Peter. This ought to teach me to write notes a week of low-sleep after the fact. Confused ramblings about "reset-time": Yes, it's reset-time in a global sense, but certainly not under the reset launch code. :) So, I just looked at the code. Here's the deal: Call FrmReturnToForm() when F

RE: Interesting way to Fatal-Error in Form.c

2001-07-19 Thread Peter Epstein
I don't think it's kosher to present any dialog in response to the reset notification launch code. Also, if you don't set up a current form in your application, I don't think you're allowed to pop up dialogs either. Either you use the form manager or not. If you want to do your own thing, and bypa

Interesting way to Fatal-Error in Form.c

2001-07-19 Thread Alex Robinson
If you go into an event loop without having a form, there can be a crash. It shows up easily on a Clie, but can happen on a "normal" device, too. For instance, if an Alarm pops up over your app/event-loop at reset-time. (Interesting things can also happen with 3rd party Launchers that release the