Hello bh77a,
To answer your questions:
1. the 256 bytes buffer is a cumulative size for all applets. And each applet should reserve with fake variables the upper values used by the other applets to make sure that the applet's variables are well positionned in the stack.
For instance, if applet #1 reserves 2 integers like this:
Var
Applet1Var1: integer;
Applet1Var2: integer;
Then, applet #2 should reserve like this:
Var
// do not work with them unless you want
// to share them between the 2 applets
Fake1: integer;
Fake2: integer;
// applet #2 variables
Applet2Var1: integer;
Applet2Var2: integer;
2. Yes, you can reserve 8 bits integers, 16 bits integers and 32 bits integers.
Copy & Paste from the PalmAPI.pas file:
Int8=-128..127;
UInt8=0..255;
Int16=-32768..32767;
UInt16=0..65535;
Int32=Integer;
UInt32=0..MaxInt;
So, you can save 3 bytes out of the 256 available by using a Int8 instead of a Int32 (or integer) in your example.
Now, I am happy to see that you play around with this buffer, very few people did it so far.
I could extend a little bit this buffer (but I don't remember by how much... I need to check) but kept it small so far because there are other ways to share data in the Palm (for instance, a file is nothing else but a not much slower piece of memory buffer storage possibility).
Cheers,
aldweb
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