Luc Le Blanc wrote:
My app creates a XML file for import into GPS-related apps like PalmOS-based
PathAway. If the device I run on has a SD slot, fine, I can use a VFS file and
PathAway imports it. On other devices, I resort to a file stream, but in this
case, PathAway does not support that PalmOS-specific format (indeed, I can
always ask), and if the user recovers the file on his PC through a HotSync or a
beam. it still has to be stripped of its header (PAR does that) in order to end
up with the original XML file contents.
Is there an alternative format I can use to produce a non-database data file in
the absence of a SD slot? Installable file system library?
yes, you can just install ramdisk, and then create vfs files like on the
real card.
or, you can try this:
http://toyspring.com/dl/Hidden_Dimension.prc
- the filesystem containing all filestream databases accessible as vfs
files - seems ideal for applications that can't handle streaming file api.
however, it is not perfect. i developed this thing some time ago and
then lost the motivation :-P so there are probably some bugs left.
for example it does not work on my treo 650 (no idea why).
BTW, are there GUI-based PAR-like tools? Not all my users are used to a command
line interface.
just create the rudimentary "gui" by writing a simple *.BAT file and
tell the users to drop input files on that BAT (it will be called with
the file path as the argument) ;-)
sz.
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