On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 10:37:05PM -0800, Steve Sabram wrote:
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> Philip Ho wrote:
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> > Dear all,
> >
> > What is the differences between the choice of using AppPreferences and
> > the choice of using application's own database to store preference
> > settings?
>
> AppPreferecens will write to a database that will be backed up but the Palm
> Desktop without you needing to write a conduit. If you do a custom database,
> you'll need your own conduit for backup.
If you set the backup bit on your database, it will be backed up without
the need for a custom conduit. Another point to be made here is that
the entire saved preferences database will be backed up whenever any app
changes its preferences. For this reason you are advised to minimize
the size of data you store in preferences, although the only hard limit
is the 64k record size.
-Ben
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