As you probably know, you have to figure out a way to select the Palm
desktop user. In any case to ensure that your pdb/prc is going to the
correct Palm, you need to select the Palm desktop user. I am assuming the PC
has more than one Palm desktop user. I have a similar app ( a separate exe,
very similar to the install tool) where the user can select the Palm desktop
user from a combo box. I use PltGetUserCount and PltGetUser to fill the
combo box. Once you get the Palm desktop user the call to PltInstallFile is
very simple. If you need more help, I can mail you some sample code.
HTH.
-Sugho-
>From: Tom Zerucha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Finding Developers - Install Aide how?
>Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:58:11 -0400
>
>On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 01:43:49PM -0400, Brian Mathis wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Tom Zerucha wrote:
> > [...]
> > > The second question concerns doing an install conduit, specifically
> > > asking for an example that installs a database with all the calls in
> > > context. They say use the install aide, and list all the calls, but
> > > nothing between. There are NO official palm examples, at least for
> > > Windows. Alternately, how to call the install tool.
> >
> > In other words, "Palm won't write my program for me"? They gave you the
> > info you probably need, unless you are trying to do something
> > non-standard. I'm looking in the docs right now, and it seems (based on
> > your short description here) PltInstallFile() would do the trick. What
> > else do you need? Of course you'd need to write the supporting code
> > around it.
>
>PltInstallFile requires a user id as a parameter, and there is no
>"default" user. Do I just grab whatever is in the first slot in the
>get user list call? Can I just leave this NULL (it doesn't seem like
>it). Is this called from a conduit DLL or external EXE program (at
>least under windows - these seem to be integrated on the Mac)?
>
>I identified the call early on. And the fact that I have to write
>supporting code around it. Precisely what that supporting code has to
>do and how to make it do it IS the question. No they don't have to
>write it for me, but they should tell me what to write (or provide an
>example).
>
>There are various examples floating around, but they don't have any
>comments either way from anyone from Palm Inc saying that is the right
>or wrong way to do things.
>
>I am actually trying to avoid doing something nonstandard, but there
>is NO information as to what that standard is. Just a bunch of
>disconnected calls into various DLLs.
>
>I know how to make it work by hacking the registry and doing file
>copies because I can see what happens when the installer does its
>thing. I don't know how to produce the same effect with Palm's calls.
>Especially if the program runs somewhere outside the palm install
>directory, which is very likely since I am writing a utility, not a
>conduit - how do I use a DLL I can't find?
>
>No, they don't give the information I need, or at least I am unable to
>interpret what I have. I haven't asked many questions on the PalmOS
>API, nor about the conduit API because the information for those
>things IS available and there are enough pieces floating around to
>understand what each call does in the context of the system.
>
>That is not true of the install aide API, nor is the installer program
>documented (I can blindly pass it lists of files as if they were
>dragged and dropped on the icon, but that doesn't seem to work all the
>time nor on all systems - that generated a lot of bug reports on lots
>of windows systems).
>
>I have a PDB (or prc) somewhere on a windows system (95,98,NT, or 2K)
>and would like to have it installed next hotsync. I only have a call
>that takes a parameter that I don't know how to set (calls returning a
>list of possible settings isn't the same thing) in an DLL I can't
>find.
>
>For now, my users have to generate the pdb somewhere they can write to
>and manually do the install.
>
>If it's that simple, it should be shorter than this message:
>
>installpdb(char *pdbpath) {
>//Insert your reply here
>PltInstallFile(
>//and here
>);
>}
>main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
>if( argc != 2) exit(-1);
>installpdb(argv[1]);
>}
>
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