What you are probably referring to is the number of resources per
application. See section 7.7 of the CodeWarrior for Palm Computing platform
FAQ at http://www.metrowerks.com/pda/palm/faq/7.stm for more information.
Hope this helps.
Jun-Kiat Lam
Metrowerks Technical Support
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Bram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: Max resources
> >
> >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
>
>
>
