Yes, your app has a creator ID as well. Use a program called FPSUtility4 to
see creator ID of all apps and databases installed in your device. If using
GCC, your creator ID is set by your compilation script as follows:
I use GCC with VFDIDE (www.vfdide.com) and this is from my compile.bat file:
echo "Step 5 Build PRC..."
build-prc myapp2.prc "MyAppName" CrId *.grc *.bin
In the above line the build-prc is part of prc-tools which is used to build
the .prc file after your C code is compiled. The myapp2.prc is the name of
the prc file. This does not have to be the same as the app name on the Palm.
"MyAppName" is what would appear once loaded into the Palm. "CrId" is a
fictitious creator ID. You must register creator ID's with Palm. When you
delete a Palm app, all databases and preferences with the same creator ID
are also deleted.
If using CodeWarrior, I believe there is a section in the GUI where you
define your creator ID and this would get passed on to the compiler. With
VFDIDE, you can also define it, but it doesn't get passed automatically to
the compiler. You have to put it in your compile.bat file.
Hope this helps.
Marty Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:601@palm-dev-forum...
>
> I don't know what you mean by the creator Id of my application... I use
the
> same code
> you attached to get and set my app's preferences, and I use the same crid
as
> I use
> for my application's database, but does the application itself have a
crid?
> I don't see
> anywhere that it is set, am I missing a function that tells the OS what
the
> application's
> Id is?
>
> Thanks,
> Marty
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John R. Violette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum
> To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 8:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Question about application preferences
>
>
> > Try the Preference Editor by Bodo Bellut to view/edit entries in saved
and
> > unsaved preferences DB. They do get deleted when you delete the app as
> long
> > as the creator id of the pref database matches the creator id of your
> > application. I use the following code to see if a pref exists for my
app,
> > where appFileCreator is a #define for my creator ID and AppPrefID is a
> > #define for the version of prefs. The version is not used yet.
> > 'noPreferencefound ' is defined by the Palm API as the return code for
no
> > preferences existing for the requested creator ID.
> >
> >
> >
> > Marty Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:504@palm-dev-forum...
> > >
> > > When are application preferences "deleted"? I assumed that
> > > if you delete the app from the device, the application preferences
> > > are also deleted. But after re-installing my application and then
> > > calling PrefGetAppPreferences, they seem to be still there. I
> > > have tried this using POSE as well as an actual device (thinking
> > > the HotSync would delete them). Somebody please enlighten
> > > me.
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > Marty
> >
>
>
>
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