Sorry to post again on this issue, but it's driving me nuts. I'm still trying to design an elegant method for installing database files for my app either in RAM or on an expansion card.
The user will install the .prc file and two or more from a set of .pdb files. If the pdb files go on the card, they wind up in /PALM/Launcher, which is ugly. They should go into /PALM/Programs/myapp, but that requires copying them on the first execution of the program, which is slow and ugly. I could give them a different extension and register it with VFS so they install directly into /PALM/Programs/myapp. But that requires telling the user to (1) install my app, (2) run it once to register the extension, and then (3) install the databases. They have enough trouble installing files as it is. Also the user will no longer be able to install the files by double-clicking on them; they'll have to run the Install Tool explicitly. And then I'd have to rename the files to .pdb. Presumably there's a way to do that if they're in RAM but I don't know it yet. Any suggestions for how to make this installation process nice would be appreciated. Do other apps deal with this problem? How? -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
