Perhaps he has one of the bad 8Meg DRAM machines. Have him go to this page:
http://www.palm.com/support/dram/ to check it out. I've had one user with a Palm Vx report mysterious corrupting of the database for our product. I'm still waiting to hear back from him. ---------- Bradly J. Barton - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jenies Technologies Incorporated (972) 602-1835 http://www.JTI.net http://PalmInHand.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Burmeister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 10:02 AM Subject: Re: corrupt button label on custom form > The user just reported to me that this behavior only occurs on his Palm > IIIxe, running Palm OS 3.5. I haven't found any related info in the > archives yet. Does this clue suggest anything to anyone out there? > TIA > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Burmeister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 9:29 PM > Subject: corrupt button label on custom form > > > > A user of one of my apps reports that "sometimes when I change from [one > > program option to another] the > > dialog box where it should say OK says OQ. Very weird....but I can > > duplicate it time and again...." > > > > I have never seen this behavior in testing with millions of gremlins, on > any > > ROM, or on my Palm V or my Palm VII. > > > > The way the program option is changed is in response to a popSelectEvent. > > For example, to switch to "smart" mode: > > > > if ( eventP->data.popSelect.selection == SMART ) > > { > > // put SmartStrString resource into a global var, declared Char > > gString[100]; > > SysCopyStringResource( gString, SmartStrString ); > > > > if ( FrmCustomAlert( NewGameAlert, gString, NULL, NULL ) == > NewGameOK ) > > // set a few globals and redraw the main form (with FrmGotoForm) > > StartNewGame( 1, SMART ); > > } > > // etc. > > > > The OK button he refers to is on the custom alert. (The alert has only > ^1; > > no ^2 or ^3 so in theory it is safe to pass in NULL for the unused > params.) > > The alert displays "Do you want to start a new game in ^1 mode?" and has > an > > OK and a Cancel button. > > > > So far, the only guesses I have about what is causing this are: > > > > 1) Some hack on his Palm is messing things up, or > > 2) His Palm needs a reset to clear up corrupt memory, or > > 3) (I hope not, but maybe) I am doing something nasty somewhere else which > > over-writes the form. (So far, I haven't found any such errors in the > code.) > > > > Does anybody have any other ideas/suggestions? > > TIA > > > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/ -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
