One could just rewrite MemoPad and GIVE it to Palm.
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Nesse, Rustin wrote:
>
> >Here is why I am interested. I have an application that I wish to be
> >able to use MemoPad:
> >
> >1) As a means to Import/Export data from and to AND
> >2) Allow writing such data on a PC using MemoPad
> >3) Allow editing within MemoPad
> >4) Relieve me of having to write a conduit to do the same things.
> >
> >I have my application using MemoPad for the above 4 tasks.
> >
> >MemoPad does this nicely but my data, that needs to be written or might
> >be written on a PC, might exceed 4k. Also any data that is created in
> >the application might exceed 4k.
> >
> >It turns out that my application can Import/Export up to 32K to a
> >MemoPad record. When backed up the entire 32K is saved as a
> >backup. So
> >Import/export works ok using MemoPad. But I still have the problem of
> >how to edit, since MemoPad cannot edit files larger than 4k. Further,
> >if I change anything in a MemoPad file, on the PC (for records larger
> >than 4k), the backup is lost as memopad will truncate to 4k.
> >
> >I'm looking for a way to do 1-4. It seems that I have only 3 options:
> >
> >1) Keep it the way it is, realizing the 4k and 32k issues.
> >2) Write my own PC side application and conduit
> >3) Find a freeware application that already does this.
> >
> >I really don't like my application depending on a 3rd party application
> >that might not be around in a while. But then again it appears that
> >MemoPad will not be around long either
> >
> >Any other options?
> >
> >Mike
>
> Well, taking into account all the wonderful copyright violations that
> you may encounter, you may, if you ask Palm really nicely, rewrite your
> own special MemoPad that does the necessary field cleanup. At the very
> least, you'd have an app that you could just plug-in and go with all
> your other apps that need that functionality.
>
> Or, you may have to span 4k records with data. I did this with my
> minor identification software, where I had lots of little records stored
> in 4k memos, and I'd write out a new memo whenever my buffer approached
> 4k. That was rather easy to work with, and it didn't just pile up the
> memos (as if I wrote one memo per record), making it a serious pain to
> clear out all the excess memos.
>
> Still, I'd love it if Palm would let me take a crack at the MemoPad
> source, and let me reconfigure it and distribute it freely. There are
> some things I'd love to see, like being able to delete multiple memos,
> being able to clear all memos, doing the field cleanup so I could push
> more data into the memos and read bigger ones, etc. Of course, now I'd
> just have another one of the "BigPad" type apps, though.
>
> -Rus
>
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