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John Wick wrote:
> I'm trying to port a VB6 windows app to palm via appforge.
>
> The app reads a vending machine via a serial link and retrieves a data
> stream of 70 -200 CRLF lines ~ 4k of data per machine. Typ 30 per day.
> The existing program writes the data to a separate file for each
> reading.
>
> In the palm environment I think I'm going to need to create a .PDB and
> write a memo field with one record per reading.
>
> Reasonable? better approach?
>
> Now I have a .PDB I need to get it to the PC where I can convert it and
> pull it into Access where I will parce the data (150 fields). Appforge
> has an ODBC conduit ingot coming soon.
>
> Can I automate this transfer or must I go thru the palm desktop?
> Customer may have 10-15 palms to download.
>
> Could I put this data into a memopad record and get to it easier?
> Is there a "better" newsgroup to answer these questions?
> TIA John Wick
No, this is the right place to be asking such questions. Based on your
description, here's what should probably happen...
Your app on the Palm will gather data and save it into it's own database,
creating each record as it's own record entry in the database. Then, to
get it to the PC, you'll need a conduit which can read the databases,
download them to the handheld, and do what you want with them.
Writing to the memo pad is completely unnecessary, as is using anything in
the Palm desktop. Unless your referring to "memo field" as a chunk of
text, that sounds like desktop database lingo (access, oracle), which are
completely unrelated to Palm databases, and do not work the same way.
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Brian Mathis
Direct Edge
http://www.directedge.com
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