At 11:23 PM +0100 12-01-00, Jeff Small wrote:
>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.
It gets tricky to get this right. You have to consider apps with multiple
databases, apps with 'document' databases, or apps with some databases that
should be beamed with the app (supporting data) and some databases that
should not be beamed (user data.)
So far, the Palm KISS solutions has been to do nothing... and it's worked
out pretty well. :-) (Don't bother to write back about that, I know...)
>We could always write our own facility for beaming the database,
>and add it to the application. That's actually fairly easy.
There's already at least one shareware app which does this. I'm thinking
of BeamBox, but there are probably others.
--Bob
