Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-29 Thread bill
that is kinda what I did, I just would parse out the individual words one at a time, then when I got it back I would allocate the room. I appreciate the help, thanx again. bill "Richard M. Hartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:LYRIS-45725-91949-2002.05.29-10.43.36--wlalexander#[EMAI

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-29 Thread C. B. Schofield
> Anonymity? His name was on the posting ... Been there, done that. Does anyone else want to flog me... please, feel free. :) Again, my apologies. Craig "Part-time net cop and pop psychologist... Call ahead for appointments..." -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to u

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-29 Thread Richard M. Hartman
"Joe Malone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:87266@palm-dev-forum... > > --- bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Something else I noticed: 'UInt16' and 'int' is there any > > differance in these two, I thought there was? > > ... > > If there isn't a difference, why not just use 'int'??

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-29 Thread Richard M. Hartman
"C. B. Schofield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:87238@palm-dev-forum... > > > In the end, the choice of whether to use names like "char" and "int", > > which are immediately familiar to any C programmer anywhere, or names > > like "Char" and "Int16", which Look Pretty to an InterCa

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-29 Thread Richard M. Hartman
"bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:87234@palm-dev-forum... > > Thanx for your responses, > first I don't claim to be a good speller :) > next, I don't know what the size of the Title or descriptions will be, they > will change. > second, I am using this on a palm. > third, I have a

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-29 Thread Ben Combee
In article <87507@palm-dev-forum>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > > [u]intN_t native type of exactly N bits > > ("These types are optional. However if an implementation > > provides integer types with widths of 8, 16, 32, or 64 bits, > > it shall define the corresponding typede

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-29 Thread C. B. Schofield
> I'm hoping you (and everyone else propagating this thread, myself > included) really mean that. > > Regards, > Steve Mann Steve, indulge me for one more second. My apologies to John and the group for the off-topic bullsh*t and the unadvised original posting. Craig -- For information on us

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-29 Thread Aaron Ardiri
On Wed, 29 May 2002, John Marshall wrote: > Interestingly, C99 added a bunch of [U]Int16-like types, and it was > pretty controversial. Lots of people thought adding them was just > pandering to a need that wasn't really there, for the reasons I've been > trying to explain. But they went a lot f

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-29 Thread John Marshall
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 06:46:39PM -0700, Joe Malone wrote: > In the original edition of K&R's "The C Programming Language", int is > described as "an integer, typically reflecting the natural size of > integers on the host machine." Examples are given for machines upon > which an int is 16, 32,

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-28 Thread Aaron Ardiri
On Wed, 29 May 2002, John Marshall wrote: > Keith, having met me face to face on a number of occasions :-), will > be able to tell you that if I think you're spouting dangerously or > offensively wrong claptrap, I might well respond colourfully in person > too. So I don't think that illustrates y

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-28 Thread Steve Mann
At 4:32 AM +0200 5/29/02, John Marshall wrote: >Sheesh. The net-cop wannabes of today! Why won't they use a little >pop. psychology? John/C.B./Keith/Whoever: I think I can safely say that most of the subscribers to this list don't give a f**k. We're here to discuss Palm OS programming, not N

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-28 Thread John Marshall
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 09:16:02PM -0600, C. B. Schofield wrote (in reply to Keith Rollin's question about about his use of "anonymity"): > I was referring to the fact that it's not uncommon for people to use > confrontational language and be less charitable in email than they would be > in person

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-28 Thread Ben Combee
In article <87454@palm-dev-forum>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > > On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 09:20:43AM -0700, Joe wrote: > >> In the end, the choice of whether to use names like "char" > >> and "int", which are immediately familiar to any C programmer > >> anywhere, ... really comes down to a pers

RE: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-28 Thread Paul Gibson
--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of bill Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 5:55 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample Hi again, thanx again, you guys have inadvertantly answered another question I was pondering. At any rate, I tho

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-28 Thread John Marshall
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 09:20:43AM -0700, Joe wrote: >> In the end, the choice of whether to use names like "char" >> and "int", which are immediately familiar to any C programmer >> anywhere, ... really comes down to a personal choice of >> whether to drink Palm's nomenclature Kool-aid. > >

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-28 Thread Mark Smith
John Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There's certainly no compelling argument for using "Int16" etc >instead of "int" etc, There is if you have code that also needs to compile on Windows CE. >but there are compelling technical arguments for using >"int" etc instead of "Int16" etc in many

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-26 Thread C. B. Schofield
> John clearly signed his first name, and his full name is in the From: > field. To what anonymity are you referring? I was referring to the fact that it's not uncommon for people to use confrontational language and be less charitable in email than they would be in person. Providing a name and

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-26 Thread Joe Malone
--- bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something else I noticed: 'UInt16' and 'int' is there any > differance in these two, I thought there was? > ... > If there isn't a difference, why not just use 'int'?? See my answer below. But first, some caveats: I am not an expert in C. I have not rec

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-26 Thread bill
a difference, why not just use 'int'?? thanx bill - Original Message - From: "Joe Malone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 4:40 PM Subject: Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-26 Thread Joe Malone
--- Keith Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that the questionable parts of what you said would > be the parts John pointed out. strlen can be used just > fine on the Palm (with development environment support, or > with one's own macros), All I said about strlen is "There is no str

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-26 Thread Aaron Ardiri
On Sun, 26 May 2002, Keith Rollin wrote: > >since when has it changed practically every release? :P > > I am, of course, overstating the situation. And I suppose that I was > wrong to say "definition", since it's always been intended to do the > same thing in every release. But there is something

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-26 Thread Keith Rollin
At 10:40 PM +0200 5/26/02, Aaron Ardiri wrote: >On Sun, 26 May 2002, Keith Rollin wrote: >>This is questionable, not only because StrNCopy's definition has >>changed in practically every release of the OS > >since when has it changed practically every release? :P I am, of course, overstating the

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-26 Thread Aaron Ardiri
On Sun, 26 May 2002, Keith Rollin wrote: > Let's also take a look at the following that you posted: > > > // locate a space > > p = StrChr(sentence, ' '); > > > > if (p) > > // found a space, so copy the word > > StrNCopy(word, sentence, (p - sentence)); > > This is questionable, not

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-26 Thread Keith Rollin
At 1:08 PM -0700 5/26/02, Joe wrote: >--- Keith Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> But Joe *was* off-base in part of his response. >> > >Now you've made me go back and read what I wrote! I don't see >anything wrong except for a little sloppiness in the 2nd post when >describing the relati

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-26 Thread Aaron Ardiri
On Sun, 26 May 2002, Joe wrote: > - Joe "Would anyone feel better if I added a surname?" :) yeah.. just as long as it aint "Bloggs" :P // az [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ardiri.com/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/d

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-26 Thread Joe
--- Keith Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But Joe *was* off-base in part of his response. > Now you've made me go back and read what I wrote! I don't see anything wrong except for a little sloppiness in the 2nd post when describing the relative equivalency of pointers and arrays, and a b

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-26 Thread Keith Rollin
At 8:32 PM -0700 5/25/02, bill wrote: >Thanx for your responses, >first I don't claim to be a good speller :) >next, ... >second, ... >third, ... Nor do you know how to count. :-) >I have all the books, and then read the and read them, been at this >one thing for a while, then I have read them

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-26 Thread Aaron Ardiri
On Sun, 26 May 2002, Keith Rollin wrote: > >Why do people feel the need to posture like this? ...because it's easy to > >do so in anonymity? > > John clearly signed his first name, and his full name is in the From: > field. To what anonymity are you referring? > > > ...because it's fun to be f

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-26 Thread Keith Monahan
Hahaha. I've already found some via some "testing". Debugging is more like it. Keith M - Original Message - From: "Aaron Ardiri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 3:11 PM Su

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-26 Thread Keith Rollin
At 8:22 AM -0600 5/26/02, C. B. Schofield wrote: >Why do people feel the need to posture like this? ...because it's easy to >do so in anonymity? John clearly signed his first name, and his full name is in the From: field. To what anonymity are you referring? > ...because it's fun to be flam

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-26 Thread Aaron Ardiri
On Sun, 26 May 2002, Keith Monahan wrote: > As a C programmer with a fair amount of experience, I've still found the > Palm platform to be somewhat challenging because of the differences in what > standard functions are available. It's not that the Palm API is hard > though, it is generally easy,

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-26 Thread Keith Monahan
As a C programmer with a fair amount of experience, I've still found the Palm platform to be somewhat challenging because of the differences in what standard functions are available. It's not that the Palm API is hard though, it is generally easy, and the documentation generally easy to read and

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-26 Thread Joe
> On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 08:14:25PM -0700, "Joe" wrote: > > There is no strlen() function in the Palm API. That, > > coupled with the fact that you are using char everywhere > > instead of Char or WChar, leads me to suspect that you > > aren't running this on any Palm Powered device. --- Joh

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-26 Thread C. B. Schofield
> In the end, the choice of whether to use names like "char" and "int", > which are immediately familiar to any C programmer anywhere, or names > like "Char" and "Int16", which Look Pretty to an InterCapping Macintosh > recalcitrant, really comes down to a personal choice of whether to drink > Pal

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-26 Thread John Marshall
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 08:14:25PM -0700, "Joe" wrote: > There is no strlen() function in the Palm API. That, coupled with the > fact that you are using char everywhere instead of Char or WChar, leads > me to suspect that you aren't running this on any Palm Powered device. Oh please :-(

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-25 Thread Joe
--- bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanx for your responses, Maybe the following two functions will serve as an example of how you can pass a string to a function and how the function can return a string. /** FirstWord - return

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-25 Thread bill
uot; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 8:03 PM Subject: Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample > "bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:87230@palm-dev-forum... > > > > void Seperator (char* Data[], char* text) > >

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-25 Thread Joe
--- bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is some sample code, that if I could get some help on, > it might help with the other problem I mentioned earlier. It needs a lot of help. :( I don't remember what the other problem was, but perhaps it will... > void Seperator (char* Data[], char* text

Re: passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-25 Thread James
"bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:87230@palm-dev-forum... > > void Seperator (char* Data[], char* text) > { > UInt16 index=0, letterCount=0, row=0; > char tempData[255]; > for (int i=0; i if (text[i]==' ') >{ >tempData[letterCount]='\0'; >Data[row++]=tempData; >

passing char* data[10] question Code sample

2002-05-25 Thread bill
Here is some sample code, that if I could get some help on, it might help with the other problem I mentioned earlier. void Seperator (char* Data[], char* text) { UInt16 index=0, letterCount=0, row=0; char tempData[255]; for (int i=0; ihttp://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/