I think it should only be DmRecordResize -- not MemHandleResize
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>The examples in Palm Programming use MemHandleResize only in Packing
functions.
>Are you suggesting using both DmResizeRecord and MemHandleResize when
Packing to
>a database?
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>-Elizabeth
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>That's got to be it! Her pack routine is calling MemHandleResize()
>and it needs to be working through Dm API, not the Mem API!
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>Hal Mueller wrote in message <26210@palm-dev-forum>...
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>>At 11:49 AM -0700 10/3/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>problem is in the update data. If the sizes of old and new data are the
>same,
>>>no problem. If old data size is bigger, it erases data from the
following
>>>field.
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>>You should be calling DmResizeRecord in that case (remember to check
>>for the success/failure of the resize). Maybe the pack/unpack
>>routines are doing that already, but it doesn't appear to be
>>happening in the code fragment you posted. I have found it helpful
>>to use a second function to compute the size of a record--especially
>>when I have some fields that might or might not be used.
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