Thanks for the info, Peter! I would have thought that separate creator Ids
for the application and the created database would have kept things
separate, but I guess not. Guess I still don't completely understand the
relationship and operation between the creator Ids and different database
names.
You imply that I could keep multiple programs, or program groups, under one
"database" name. Or that I could share form resources between different
programs under one "database" name. I generally don't think of code as a
database resource! Is any of what you related in the documentation
somewhere, and I just missed it?
Thanks again...
-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: (W) Program Database Names
The setting in PalmRez is used to specify the name of the database
containing your application. This is a resource database with code resources
and other resources for your forms and such.
The DmCreateDatabase API also needs a database name, and it should be
different, since you clearly don't want to create a database from within
your application which overwrites the application itself. The rule in PalmOS
is that no two databases on the same device (or is it on the same card?) can
have the same name. For example, memo pad uses something like "MemoPad" for
the application database and "MemoDB" for the data database (that contains
all your memos).
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Peter Epstein
Palm Inc. Developer
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