At 7:16 PM -0500 12/16/1999, Tim Hewitt wrote:
>I have an interesting, though somewhat academic question.
>
>Is it possible to write an application that is not loaded as an
>application, but
>rather is stored as a database entry on the Palm, then when selected
>by a "host"
>application, the "database-based" application runs? When it finishes, it would
>launch the parent application with a custom launch code and the user would be
>returned to where they started - sort of.
>
>The problem I'm trying to solve is one of having hundreds of
>"applets" available
>to be run on the Palm at one time. These programs are very small,
>and there are
>potentially 1000's of them. It would be a shame to burn up 1000
>creator ids for
>these guys, yet I am intrigued by the idea of having each one a totally self
>contained program.
>
>
You could build each as a single code resource within your host app.
