On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Jason Dawes wrote:

> At 05:01 PM 3/4/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >How's "DmFindDatabaseByTypeCreatorName" better than
> >"DmGetNextDatabaseByTypeCreator"?  A type and creator should uniquely
> >identify a database; what does adding a name parameter get you?
> >
> >I'm not much of a Palm OS programmer, so this is a real question, not a
> >challenge.
> 
> I tend to have multiple databases that all have the same creator & type:
> creator because of one 3rd party reason and type because of another 3rd
> party reason - the name is the only thing that differentiates them.  It
> would be a nice convinience function to be able to query on all 3
> "categories"

When dealing with plug-ins and user-creatable databases (the common
versions for needing to differentiate based on the name), I prefer to
differentiate based on the _contents_ of the database, and not care about
the name at all. 

-- 
Kenneth Albanowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED], CIS: 70705,126)


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