When the Palm OS beams an app, it just beams the app resources database
records, right? Could you not write a "beam app and database" option that
would beam the app and its database as two actions? The receiving Palm would
see two beam txns, but the sending user would only need to perform one
transaction.
- John Schettino
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 2:23 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Beaming a palm app and its database...
We need to be able to beam both the app and the database. Currently, only
the app is possible.
The idea has been expressed that it should be possible to somehow
associate a database and an application in such a way that the
"beam application" operation would beam the database too. Though
I haven't been able to find any documentation about such a
feature, experimentation indicates that it doesn't exist: a
non-built-in app on my Palm VII is called KVM, and it uses a
database called "KVMClassDB". Both the app and the database have a
creator of kJav. Both the "Delete" and the "Beam" menu items on
the application launcher's menu show a single entry, for the app,
but a size that includes that of the database. Deleting the app
also deletes the database. But beaming the app does *not* beam
the database, and there is no separate facility that I can find
that can beam the database.
We could always write our own facility for beaming the database,
and add it to the application. That's actually fairly easy. The
user would be faced with a rather ungainly two-step process to
beam first the app, then the database, to another Palm. Should
we do this? Are there any other ways of doing this?
Anyone's help would be most appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Jeff Small
