I am putting the code snippet I used to get the owner name from preferences
for others who may need it.
It took some amount of research to finally get it but I would like to thank
Alvin Koh whose code got me started.
gDB = DmOpenDatabaseByTypeCreator('sprf', 'psys', dmModeReadOnly);
if (gDB)
{
resIndex = DmFindResource(gDB, 'ownr', 1, NULL);
resH = DmGetResource('ownr', 1);
if (resH)
{
resSize = MemHandleSize(resH);
resPtr = MemHandleLock(resH);
buffer = (char *) MemPtrNew(resSize);
MemMove(buffer, resPtr, resSize);
buffer+=2;
palmUserName = new char[20];
MemMove(palmUserName, buffer, resSize);
MemHandleUnlock(resH);
DmReleaseResource(resH);
buffer-=2;
MemPtrFree(buffer);
DmCloseDatabase(gDB);
return palmUserName;
}
}
}
Thanks to all..
Happy Coding
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vini Bhatnagar
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 11:08 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: How to retrieve owner name from Preferences?
>
> Hi All,
>
> I need to retrieve owner name from Palm preferences for use in my
> application.
> To use any of the fuctions for Preferences SystemPreferencesChoice
> structure is used.
> but this does not have any reference to owner name.
> Please Help..
>
> Thanks
> Vini
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