You haven't been reading this forum for long have you 8^).
So far this week there have been threads running on :
"Singularity of each Palm device"
"About the UserID and PCID in Palm"
Which both pretty much address the question you are asking.
Short answer - not all Palm devices have a serial number stored in ROM, and
as you have discovered, the Handspring Visor is one of them. So you need
alternate methods to uniquely id a device.
Long answer - go to the forum archive at escribe and do some research. It
has been discussed MANY times over there. One idea that had me interested is
a munged form of date/time that the program was first run, but that could
change over time. For your use, storing a serial number of some sort in the
System or Application preferences might be a better option, and reading from
that.
Regards,
CSE
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Denis
> Chai
> Sent: Monday, 30 October 2000 9:41 PM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: Unique Serial Numbers
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm developing a conduit for my Palm application. My application beams
> records between Palms and as such it needs to keep a history of
> which Palms
> it has been on. Now I know that the Palm stores it unique serial
> number in
> the ROM and it can be accessed using the SysGetROMToken function.
> Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work for the Handspring Visors or does
> it? Does anyone know? If not, what are my alternatives so that
> I can keep
> track of which Palm/Visor a particular record has been on.
>
> Furthermore, how can I implement this using a conduit?
>
> Thanks,
> Denis.
>
>
>
> --
> For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to
> unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
--
For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see
http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
