On Mon, 21 May 2001, Danny Epstein wrote:
> "Brian Mathis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> > Here's a typical way things are set up:
> >
> > CreatorID Type
> > YourApp 'Yapp' 'appl'
> > YourAppData 'Yapp' 'data'
>
> Not to pick on you, Brian, but I have to nit-pick. :)
Go ahead, I'd rather see things that are accurate :)
> Avoid using all-lowercase-letter types for your data. It's okay to use the
> type 'appl' because this has a special, documented meaning: an application.
> But, in general, types and creator IDs (and other similar things such as
> features and notifications) that consist entirely of lowercase letters are
> reserved by Palm for internal use. You can use 'Data', 'DATA', 'dat2', or
> even 'dat-', but not 'data'.
> --
> Danny
Has this made it into any official documentation? We have known about the
lowercase CreatorID thing for a while, and there's been lot's of
discussion about lowercase types, but not any real official stance (unless
I missed it somewhere).
I always figured that the type really didn't have anything to do with the
OS, that it was just a way to help developers organize data a little more
elegantly then by using filenames. Is there something else going on with
types behind the scenes? We know about 'appl' type, and special treatment
of 'DATA' types.. anything else?
--
Brian Mathis
Direct Edge
http://www.directedge.com
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