David Fedor wrote:
> >> 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'.
What about lower case letters and a numeric? Is that reserved for the OS too?
>
>
> 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
