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)
