Dave-
Thanks for the great suggestions, I forgot about the number 2 way. Good
deal.
I like 2 because coming in and out of the application the database names are
always accessible, of then 3 I assume would work that way to, but I have not
done much with the feature manager.
Again thanks for the enlightment Dave,
Carl
"Dave Carrigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> "Carl Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Thanks for taking the time to respond to my post, but I do know the
> > fundamentals of the PalmOS. Maybe I wasn't clear, but my situation is
that
> > if I am creating an unknown about of databases how would one go about
> > creating the name (nameP) of the database and reference this name across
> > mutiple c files. Such as DBName1, DBName2 and etc. Could one keep the
> > database names in an array and reference them across other c files by
> > calling something like DBName[1]? But then how would one make them
extern to
> > other files?
>
> There are lots of ways to approach this.
>
> 1. Keep the database names in a global array, linked list, etc. See any
> C programming reference for how to declare global variables that are
> accessible between compilation units.
>
> 2. Store the database names in the preferences database and access them
> with the Pref* functions.
>
> 3. Store the database names using the feature manager and access them
> with the Ftr* functions.
>
> 4. Create the databases with different data types, then search or open
> them using DmGetNextDatabaseByTypeCreator() or
> DmOpenDatabaseByTypeCreator().
>
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