If you have a database with a creator code that doesn't have an app of that same code
present, it is shown on the database list of
the launcher. When you call DmCreateDatabase() it is totally in your power to use
whatever creator ID and file type you want.
One app I did a while back, a creator code was registered with the full intention of
never writing an app for it. The user base
found it much more convenient to delete and get version data from the launcher than
the application. Plus, different apps with
different creator IDs used these databases. So they wanted them to be kept on the
device when apps were switched out. It worked
out well.
Steve
"Richard M. Hartman" wrote:
> If you delete a database w/ type 'appl', then all prefs
> and other databases that share it's creator code are
> automatically removed.
>
> Which leaves me with the question of how utilities
> like Z'Catalog delete the appl w/o deleting the other
> databases ... I assume they do this by changing either
> the type or the creator code of the appl before they
> delete it, but I'm just guessing.
>
> --
> -Richard M. Hartman
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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