Thanks for the reply. The more I was thinking about this the more I was
pretty sure that was the case. Unfortunately, I can't change the type to
"appl" since the application that mine is a "plug-in" to requires "tdpi". I
think I'm out of luck here.
Dave
John Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:43594@palm-dev-forum...
>
> David Leland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > My application doesn't have any databases. But I was under the
impression
> > that the application itself was a database and would receive
notification
> > whenever it was HotSynced. The only thing I can think of is that my
> > application type is "tdpi" instead of "appl".
>
> Uh huh. The documentation says
>
> [sysAppLaunchCmdSyncNotify] is sent to applications to inform
> them that a HotSync has occurred.
>
> An "application" is of course a database of type 'appl'. So how do you
> suppose the OS should realise that this week a 'tdpi' is wanted to be
> like an application but 'data' isn't?
>
> So if you want a sysAppLaunchCmdSyncNotify, you'll have to arrange things
> so that there is an actual application (type = 'appl') somewhere with the
> same creator ID as your plugin.
>
> > It is a "plug-in" to another
> > application and must not show up in the applications menu.
>
> What OS are you targeting? You might want to look at dmHdrAttrHidden.
>
> John "BTW, 'tdpi' is in Palm's reserved namespace :-)"
>
>
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