At 08:17 PM 6/12/00 -0500, you wrote:
>In general a database row is divided into fields. The firstname in column 0
>would be a field. The lastname in the second column would be a field. I see
>nothing that directly supports fields.
I understand your confusion. Palm databases are not "structured" in the way
that many other database systems are. There is no concept of a "field",
each record can be of any size you want, read as raw memory, and
interpreted in any manner you please. Most applications do impose a "record
structure" on the record block, but there are no rules about how that is
done, and fields can be (and often are) varying in length, with the end of
a field determined by a null terminator.
If you are looking for a more structured api, you may wish to look at
Oracle or Sybase's offerings (I'm not recommending one over the other or
even either one at all, just pointing out that they impose a greater level
of structure on Palm databases).
Hope this helps. Find yourself some example Palm code (the built in app
source code that comes with Codewarrior is always excellent for this) and
learn how that code deals with databases.
Cheers,
Glenn
Glenn Bachmann
Bachmann Software and Services, LLC
http://www.bachmannsoftware.com
Software for Handheld & Wireless Computing, Windows and the Internet
Authors of "Palm Programming", published by Macmillan/Sams, and home of
Bachmann Print Manager, the only graphical printing solution for the Palm
Computing Platform
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