I've written my first Palm application, a restaurant ordering system, and it all works well except for one glaring omission.
The "order" is built on the Palm then written to a memory card as a VFS text file. The missing part of the system is the facility to complete that process by sending the file to a desktop PC. My desktop computer can pick up and parse the text file then use existing software to process it, if the Palm can do what should be the easy bit and send it. I have WiFi HotSync running, which works fine, and I want to use WiFi to send the text file but don't see how I can do that without a lot of learning/effort to accomplish what seems a pretty trivial task. I seem to have 2 options - 1) Use a database on the Palm instead of the VFS text file - I guess it would then be transferred by Hot Sync. I've managed to get this far without using the Palm database system which looks quite daunting to learn and use so would prefer to avoid it. Also, I don't know how easy it will be to parse a .pdb file on the desktop. 2) Develop a conduit to transfer the file, which sounds the cleanest solution. I probably have the tools to do this since I use Delphi for desktop development but I don't have the knowledge and the impression I get from the documentation is that there is a huge amount to learn . Any advice or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. For example, am I missing an easier solution? -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
