"Dave Lippincott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9891@palm-dev-forum...
>
> If there is no API to return particular attributes, then the only
> alternative left is to muck around in the structures. Hopefully the very
> intelligent PalmOS engineers will keep compatibility in mind so future OS
> releases won't break apps that have to resort to such tactics. But if you
> think about it, FldGetAttributes returns a pointer to the field's
structure
> so it must be OK to at least 'look' at it.
I'd completely missed that pair of functions. Very cool -- I'll use
FldGetAttributes to check the usable bit -- if they change the FieldType
structure, they will have to add a compatability layer for this function.
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