>
>The max is probably 65535 or such. If you're really creating that many
>resource entries, though, you're using a ton of overhead that by then will
>be taking up a considerable amount of the storage space on the device... so
>I'd highly recommend that you find a way to consolidate several resources
>into one.
>
>Each resource entry has oh, approximately 16 or 20 bytes of overhead or so,
>including the memory manager's structures. So you'd have more than a
>megabyte of overhead by the time you hit the max # of resources; probably
>not a good use of space when you're dealing with that amount of data.
>
>-David Fedor
>Palm Developer Support
Thanks David. I'm not making that many. I thought I had just read that
it was 2800 or something like that (weird number, I thought at the time.)
I think it's worth the extra overhead in space, to get to use the handy
OS routines to return indexed records so easily.
Thanks,
Rick
