Nope. The ByteArrayToXXX routines handle byte-swapping for you, and from
memory should handle all the standard integer types.
Exactly which types are you storing on the Palm? There was some discussion a
few days ago about this I think. If you are storing DateType structures
(which are a 2-byte bitfield) you'll have to resort to bitshifts to extract
it. Not too hard though. Something like this might work. NB: I haven't tried
this - and I'm not a VB expert! :-)
'typedef struct {
'UInt16 year :7;
'UInt16 month :4;
'UInt16 day :5;
'} DateType;
Dim month As Integer, day As Integer, year As Integer
day = theMatchRecord.matchDate And &H1F
month = (theMatchRecord.matchDate And &H1E0) \ &H1F
year = ((theMatchRecord.matchDate And &HFE00)) \ &H200
Also you might get a better response over at the conduits list - that's
where all those wierd conduit developers hang out! :-)
Have fun,
Gavin.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Glickman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 14 January 2002 11:37 AM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: RE: Reading Date & Number fields from Byte Array
-----Original Message-----
From: K.S. Jaishankar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, 13 January 2002 10:43 PM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Reading Date & Number fields from Byte Array
> I have difficulties in reading database fields of type
> Date and Currency/Double/Single/Long/Int to synchronize the ODBC database.
I
> have tried to use ByteArrayToBSTR, ByteArrayToDWord and ByteArryToWord
> functions for converting them, however was not successful in getting date
> and numeric values.
As a matter of fact, Palm fields are big-enfdian, while Intel has a
little-endian architecture. I do not design conduits (well, until we get a
documentation on pilot-link libraries :=)), but you might need calling ntohs
and htonl to swap byte order.
Michael
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