FWIW, the behavior is not really undocumented. The SDK documentation
talks (albiet briefly) about resource search order. Since the new
resources are in the last opened database, they should be first in the
search order.
The danger would seem to be in the assumptions that the technique makes
about the underlying system code. For example, if 'tips' were updated
to do more intelligent formatting (auto-hyphenation, whatever) and that
code assumed a particular font...
Best Regards,
-jjf
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Musick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 8:11 AM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Re: a great Tip - literally
Scott comments:
>> Is this safe?
>
>Well, it's mostly safe when run on OS versions that you have tested.
But
>since you're taking advantage of undocumented behavior, there is
nothing to
>prevent it from breaking in future OS releases. So be careful. For
the
>specific example you gave (the Tips dialog) I don't really see the
point of
>tweaking the font anyway.
I personally wouldn't do this exactly because it is an "undocumented
behavior" subject to future breakage. I've had one too many sessions of
responding to user complaints because something that worked fine before
crashed and burned on a new OS.
But I will note that I would much rather have tips in the normal text
face
and not in bold. The bold font is disproportionately wide and makes
anything more than a handful of words difficult to read due to frequent
line breaks.
...mike
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