No offence taken Michael! It's Friday... :-) You're still using that word "should" though... like I said - I won't argue about how things should work in a perfect universe. It's pointless. I'm simply pointing out what's there now, and what you should do to deal with it...
If everyone simply pretends that the last 4 (or 5 if you include the -) characters of the db name are special and need to include the CRID then isn't that implicitly the same as having CRID as a param to DmFindDatabase? Can we drop this now? Let's argue over something else like which is better: Victoria Bitter, or Crown Lager... :-) Gavin. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Glickman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 30 November 2001 2:35 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: RE: Creator ID and stuff -----Original Message----- From: Michael Glickman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 30 November 2001 2:06 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: RE: Creator ID and stuff Hi Gavin You probably refer to DmFindDatabase, that doesn't require creator ID. Do you really want me to be honest ? I think is just a Palm design fault... ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry, I didn't mean to be rude. Let me explain what I actually meant. All popular OS-s have directories or folders. You are de-facto required to have a separate folder for your app, ignoring rubbish bins like Windows/System or WinNT/System32 which is MS design fault - now with regsrv32 it has become more ordered. Original Palm system (it might change soon) doesn't have folders, but has creator IDs, which (according to my model) do the same thing. You must mark your app to avoid confusion, but you are free to choose any name, without appending or prepending it with anything ugly, like creatorID in the nearest future (remember Max's concern). I am not going to discuss intellectual freedom or Declaration of Human Rights, but even pedantic MS does not impose any restrictions on file names (though potential DLL/OCX clash is obvious), why Palm should ? By refering to Palm design fault, I meant the Palm should allow dupplication of DB names with different creator IDs in which case DmFindDatabase without creatorID wouldn't make sense. Michael -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
