> From: Peter Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> It's really a violation of the overall UI of the Palm to
> do validation when the user tries to exit your application.
So what is the recommendation? Keep the user's un-validated data in a sort
of unsaved state so they can return to it later? That *would* give the cool
illusion of "suspending" the app as-is when switching away.
If so, what happens if the user HotSyncs without ever returning to the app
to finish saving/validating the pending record? Is it discarded? (Not so
good.) Is it somehow validated during HotSync with the user alerted to any
errors? (Even possible?) Is it just sent to the server unvalidated,
potentially causing an enterprise application server to run its own
validation check and reject the record for being invalid? Then if the
server rejects the record, won't the user find it un-Zen-like that the
device didn't mention the problem earlier before the HotSync? This can get
messy.
-slj-
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