>> Is there any implied format, for the data, of a DB with a specific
>> 'Type' field? That is does 'data' imply any specific format?
>
>About the only "format" for types is that you app pdb needed to be
>'appl'. Other than that, there is no fixed format for type fields. The
>way I have taken it is that the Creator ID needs to be registered with
>Palm. This is so your public ID doesn't collide with any other
>publisher.
This is nearly correct. What is missing is that resource types (and
creators) composed of 4 lower-case letters are reserved for the OS's use.
So you could use 'DATA', 'Data', or 'DatA', but not 'data'.
Also keep in mind that anyone could come up with a type that could collide
with yours, since there isn't registration of types, so you'd nearly always
want to also put your registered creator ID on the db (and check that it is
there when opening/searching) if you want to make sure that the database is
yours.
-David Fedor
Palm Developer Support
