[pilot-db-list] Problems with 1.0.3 on Palm TT/5.0

[Per-Erik M. <pe...@te...>]

I have DB 1.0.3 installed on a Palm Tungsten T running PalmOS 5.0.
It seems to work ok, apart from the following bugs and problems I've
encountered (so far):

-- Sending to VersaMail doesn't work.

When sending a database to VersaMail. After getting the alert about it
not being sent immediately (and checking don't warn me again), I get:

Fatal Alert

StringMgr.c, Line:72, NULL string passed

(Then reset is the only option)

The mail did not end up in the outbox. (And yes, VersaMail works fine
otherwise, I use it to send/read email through my T68 with bluetooth. :)


-- The TT's select/navigator button doesn't work

In the database listing, you can't use the TT's select/navigator button
to select and open a database.

In an open database, pressing select/up/down/left/right seems to get
some kind of response; the screen flickers, but with no useful result
(that is, the screen remains the same after the flicker).


-- Databases from sourceforge don't work

I installed the Elements and TLD databases from sourceforge. Both appear
in the database listing, but neither could be opened. (It pops up an alert
saying "error when opening..." or "failed to open..." or something like that.)

This made me suspect that they maybe were in the old format, which brought
me to the next problem...


-- Plugins cause resets

After installing the DB2, JFile3, and MobileDB plugins, the program
becomes unstable:

Selecting "New" to create a new database pops up the expected dialog,
but when looking at the "Type" list, there is a garbage entry following
DB and MobileDB, a long string of random characters. (The random
characters even change from time to time.)

Then attempting to use menus (and other actions, I didn't keep track)
causes immediate resets of the Palm.

I'm not certain, but I suspect the DB2 plugin. I removed the plugins one
by one, and the problem didn't go away until I remove DB2, the last one.


-- The memoexport plugin messes up floats

The memoexport plugin seems to work in that it does export a record to
the Memo Pad. However, float fields end up as "N/A" in the memo.


-- On the wishlist: sqrt function

Finally, I miss one function in the script language (A+ for using lisp
syntax, btw :-), and that's a square root function.


    /pem