Hi! I found out that I can get colorIndex as follows: buttonFrame = fn setuicolor(0, 0) and then setting it back by: x = fn setuicolor(0, buttonFrame) Now I...
The command: draw color 255, -1, 0,1 which should set the foreground to black, sets it to yellow! :( Since this is not working it is impossible to use system...
Since indexed colors are obsolete, what commands is there to grab the different system colors? I can't find any. Does this mean HotPaw Basic does not support...
Hi My help list-db says: draw color r,g,b,c sets for c = 1 foreground c = 2 background c = 3 text color r, g, b for red, green, blue respectively [ 0 thru 255...
Oh, I should perhaps explain better. Normally the system colors are fixed. With this I mean the colors that are used by the system: Blue for FormFrame, White...
Hello everyone, Can someone help me with some code helps. Our science club needs some help. We would like to draw 4 triangles on the palm's screen. ( triangles...
Hello everyone, Can someone help me with some code helps. Our science club needs some help. We would like to draw 4 triangles on the palm's screen. ( triangles...
Hello, Merry Christmas ! Can someone out there whip up some code for a Palm to display serial data on the palm's screen ? We have some devices that output...
Anyone have any experience with rotary input controls? I think they were once called "knobs" in some languages - I forget which. Anyway, while working on a...
Is there an issue with year changes and demo mode. I d/l the current demo from the hatpaw web site on 31-DEC-2004. Not that it is 01-JAN-2005, I'm getting...
I've been using yBasic for a long time now (I love it BTW) and I've made many calculator keypads that allow me to enter chars into formfields. I can delete...
Has anyone ever create a Palm PRC applet from a Ybasic program and successfully run it from an SD memory card? I can create working applets from my Ybasic...
My old Handspring died from a cracked display. As part of setting up my new Zire, I downloaded the latest version of ybasic and installed it, along with...
Dear all, I am developing a Data Logger application, which works fine so far. However, in order to save as much battery as possible, I would like to shut the...
I'm glad to find this list. I'm just starting to program in hotpaw basic. This is probably elementary, and if it's in the documentation, please let me know -...
Yes, I already considered this possibility, but unfortunately the logging intervals are 1 second. Any other possibility ? Thanks in advance for your answer, ...
Still hoping someone has an idea for my problem. To simply my question, how can I read a large .txt file on the expansion card with hotpaw basic? Thanks Gene...
... Expansion card memory is accessed via the VFS file system. Did you try open "vfs:", path$ for input as ... with a full file pathstring specification?...
Many thanks, I will give it a try. If a line is truncated, is there some way of reading the rest of the line, or increasing the number of bytes read? Gene ... ...
... I tried them both, got an syntax error: open "vfs:", "Card/mumble.txt" for input as 4 open "vfs:/Card/mumble.txt" for input as 4 Is my syntax right? Gene...
... Are you missing a "pound" sign ( as in as #4 ) ? Is "/Card/" the proper path to the file? ( "Card/" doesn't start with a slash, so probably isn't a path. )...
Thanks, that got rid of the syntax error. Now I get "Database not open in line 3". My current statement is open "vfs:", "/Card/mumble.txt" for input as #4 I...
Never mind, it was complaining about the statement below. I'm trying to find more documentation on vfs. I found one document that says to read with vfsrd, but...
A utility, such as FileZ, can be used to determine which directories and file names are present on an expansion card. You can also use print fn vfsfiles("/",...
Hi there ! I'm a newbie with Hotpaw and have this "problem". In other BASIC dialects I used to do things like this: "IF statement1 AND statement2 THEN GOTO...
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