Aloha!
The only thing that I can think of that _might_ explain the behavior you're
seeing is not setting the socket.name field. When beaming from one Palm to
another, if you set the socket.target field, there is no need to set the
socket.name field. However, when beaming from a Palm to a PC, the name field
must be set. This field should contain the filename - something like
"foo.pdb".
What versions of Palm OS have you tried? What devices have you tried? If the
problem only occurs in Palm OS 4.0, please let me know ASAP!
As a sanity check, try removing the ExgDB calls, and just write some fixed
data. Once you get beaming working, you can switch back to using the ExgDB
calls to fill in the real database contents.
--
Danny Epstein
OS Engineer, Palm Inc.
"Van Malan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:37954@palm-dev-forum...
> aloha list members:
> I just purchased a new notebook computer with Windows ME. this computer
> also sports an IR port. WinME seems pretty smart about its IR port. I
> can...
>
> * from Palm OS beam a PRC to my notebook's desktop.
> * I can drag a PRC file from my notebook desktop to the 'wireless link'
icon
> and it will beam the file to my Palm
> * I can beam an appointment from my Palm to the desktop (appears as a vcs
> file)
>
>
> it is what I can't do that has me confused and upset.
> I cannot seem to beam a database from my application that I wrote to the
> notebook. I'm using the ExgDBWrite/ExgSend pair of API calls from the
> knowledge base tech note on beaming databases (that I'm sure everyone has
> read).
>
> my application can beam its databases to other Palms, just not to the
WinME
> desktop. it gets started OK but seems to hang in some kind of exchange
loop
> early on in the transfer. I would imagine it would sit there forever.
>
> so, to anyone listening out there. since the Palm OS (launcher?) can beam
a
> PRC to WinME, that means it must do something different then the knowledge
> base note describes. can any of you Palm employed engineers shed some
> light?
>
> -Van
> Kona, HI
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