Mitch,
It looks like you just need to initialize your global variable registered
to be false. If the prefs database is not found, then it will never set
registered, and so it will default to whatever is already in the global,
which I would guess in your case is uninitialized data.
-Gabe
Palm Creations
> If anybody who knows RegCode wants to help me out... please do...
>
> Presently when I run my app the first time after it's
> installed onto my
> physical Palm, it tells me it's registered. It's not until I
> go to the
> launcher and start my app a second time does it tell me I have the
> unregistered version.
>
> Below is some code I pulled from the RegCode SDK. If there is
> no preferences
> resource found, does that mean that "name" is just a null pointer that
> causes regCode() to return garbage? Well, it looks like on
> my handheld the
> first time I run my unregistered app, EvalKey likes what it
> sees in that
> garbage because it returns registered == true.
>
> I'm using the plain vanilla algorithm where you just sum the
> ascii values of
> the PUN.
>
>
> /*************************************************************
> **************
> **
> * static Err AppStart(void)
> * Reads preferences database for this app. Checks to see if
> the key stored
> * there matches the RegCode, and sets global "registered" variable
> accordingly.
> **************************************************************
> **************
> */
> static Err AppStart(void)
> {
> Word prefsSize;
> char name[dlkUserNameBufSize],*data;
>
> // Read the saved preferences / saved-state information.
> prefsSize = sizeof(PreferenceType);
>
> if (PrefGetAppPreferences(appFileCreator, appPrefID, &prefs,
> &prefsSize, true) != noPreferenceFound) {
>
> DlkGetSyncInfo(NULL, NULL, NULL, name, NULL, NULL);
> if(!name[0]) {
> StrCopy(name, "Emulator");
> }
>
> data = regCode((unsigned char *)name, 1);
> registered = EvalKey(prefs.key, data);
> // Then I start doing some stuff...
> .... open databases
> .... go to startup form
> }
>
> return 0;
> }
>
