You could add a purge or compress option to the Palm app. Either user
triggered or your app can call it periodically if it notices too many
'deleted' records (kind of like what Outlook does)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 3:27 PM
Subject: RE: Any problem using DmDeleteRecord but not provide a conduit?
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Danny Epstein wrote:
>
> > You could make your conduit set a Boolean in the app info block. I'm not
> > very familiar with the conduit API's, but I'm sure you can come up with
> > something.
>
> You could also set it in a preference (yes, you can do that with the
> conduit API as well :-), if you want to go that route. It seems like it
> wouldn't really matter where you put it, as long as you initialize it as
> false the first time the app runs, and the only thing to change it after
> that is the conduit (if it's used). The only time that the preference
> will be lost is if you delete the app from the handheld, but if you do
> that then you delete the database(s) associated with the app as well.
>
> I agree with Danny... use DmRemoveRecord rather than DmDeleteRecord until
> the user has synced with the conduit at least once (which would result in
> the boolean value being set), as it's much simpler than worrying about
> purging records that are marked as deleted from the app. You wont lose
> any changes that way, since there will be no existing records on the PC to
> need the deletion info.
>
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