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Hi Ben,

Thank you for the reply.

> > 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 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.

> First, Constructor is a Palm product, not a Metrowerks one.

Ah. I wasn't sure of the distinction - bundled product, preferred
Development
Environment, all that.... I'll report this one to Palm OS. In the meantime
though you might like to consider ammending that part of the tutorial so
that it
doesn't naturally lead one to use the Paint Bucket Tool, thus triggering a
confusing
IDE crash. Perhaps the tutorial should suggest making the logo itself a
different color
rather than play with the background...?

> > 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\'
>
> This seems to be a problem with the default directory concept in
> Constructor.  This is another bug to report to Palm.

Fair enough, I'll do so.

> > 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.

> > 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.

> I've not personally tried the tutorial, so I don't know about these
> issues.  However, I'm sure we will be revising it before long, and I'll
> file these as bug reports against it so they'll be fixed in the next
> version.

Thanks.

> > 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
>
> I'll file this one too.

And thanks again. So, there is nothing inherent in the way that CW
produces code that would cause the DB confusion?

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