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Hi,

I previously posted most of the following points over the course of some 
days, spread out among several messages and 2 newsgroups. I didn't get 
much of a response so I though I'd get consolidate everything here and 
try my luck one more time before leaving it.

In short, I recently downloaded the demo version of CW 8.0 and, whilst 
working my way through the tutorial, encountered several possible bugs. 
I am not sure whether they are related to CW as a whole or just the 
specific code provided with the demo.

I'm very much interested in purchasing CW but have some reservations as 
a result of my tutorial experience. If anyone is able to confirm, refute 
or explain the problems I would be very grateful.

1. Chapter 7 is all about bitmaps. At one point one is asked to create 
an image with a coloured background. I found that there seems to be a 
bug in the Palm Constructor bitmap editor. If you use the Paint Bucket 
Tool (for the 8 bit colour image, maybe other resolutions as well) the 
image becomes corrupted. You can see the result by immediately 
attempting to edit the image once it has been saved - multicoloured 
vertical lines where your image once was. Should you try to 'make' the 
project, the CW IDE closes down without any warnings. Using a 'shape 
fill' tool (for example) instead within Palm Constructor bitmap editor, 
all is well.

2. If you start Constructor for Palm OS by double clicking on a resource 
file in the CodeWarrior IDE, Constructor for Palm OS cannot find it's 
help file:

'Cannot find c:\Program Files\Metrowerks\CodeWarrior\Palm 
Tools\Help\Constructor for Palm OS.HLP'

BUT if you open Constructor for Palm OS 'normally' (as a separate 
application), it finds it's help file here:

'c:\Program Files\Metrowerks\CodeWarrior\Palm Tools\Constructor\'

3. From as soon as it is introduced, the database aspect of the tutorial 
application just plain doesn't work. Information entered into the 
database keeps cropping up in the wrong places, i.e. Tues Errands appear 
in Sun in the 'Create' form, but sometimes correctly in the 'View' form. 
The more you click around and enter and view data, the less sense it 
makes. Also, eventually, spurious ASCII characters are pre-pended to 
your data. This problem can be clearly seen when using a de-bug ROM and 
selecting 'Sun' in the create form. Immediately the (garbage) contents 
of presumably some other memory location appear...

Additionally, using  a 3.3 debug ROM, when running the app, select 
'Complete' form... if you then select 'View Errands...', for any day 
other than Wednesday (the longest string) you get to see the 'spill 
over' characters. i.e.,
Sun shows Sundaysday
Mon shows Mondayday
...etc.

Using a 3.5 ez ROM, all looks as expected.

These database problems are still visible right at the end of the 
tutorial after copying a 'clean' version of the last chapter - which 
rules out operator error.

4. Tutorial, page 93, 'Create a Large Application Icon', second 
paragraph, the line that says:

set the Bitmap ID to 1101

... should say:

set the Bitmap ID to 1011


FYI - Windows 2000 pro, latest service packs, patches etc. - default 
locations accepted for everything when installing CW.

Thanks in advance for any time someone may spend looking at this stuff.

All the best,
-- 
Paul Rees
http://www.page87.net/
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