At 10:22 AM 10/5/00 -0700, you wrote:
>At 12:00am -0700 00-10-05, Palm Developer Forum digest wrote:
>>Subject: Insertion Point Problem
>>From: Stringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 22:54:00 -0400
>>X-Message-Number: 71
>>
>>With the 3.5 debug ROMs, I'm now getting "Insertion Point
>>Problem" messages routinely. Never have seen this with other
>>ROM images.
>
>Additional checks were added to the field code in 3.5. There are many
>ways to trigger the "Invalid insertion point position" fatal alert,
>especially since this is a generic message that it generated when any
>of a number of checks fail.
Kind of interesting. The error always seems to pop-up and reference
the same line in the same Palm OS source file
Field.c - Line 132
Regardless of whether the error occurs in an alert screen or whether
it occurs on the entry screen.
>
>>The problem even occurs within window displayed with
>>FrmCustomAlert () on top of a screen with entry fields.
>>
>>What specific event is this message recording? Whatever is
>>happening seems benign, but presents me with an ugly message.
>
>There's a known situation where you can get this fatal alert if
>you've got alert text with one or more trailing linefeeds. Check the
>list archive for more information.
>
>-- Ken
Thanks. I'll check for trailing linefeeds, but my initial reaction is
that they don't exist.
Roger Stringer
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