--- Carmen Sandiego <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The following code is from a Palm OS book. I am using
> this to determine the total number of databases stored
> with a particular creator ID & type.
>
> if (DmGetNextDatabaseByTypeCreator(true, &searchState,
> myType, myCreator, false, &cardNo, &dbID)
> {
> do {
> count++
> } while (DmGetNextDatabaseByTypeCreator(false,
> &searchState, myType, myCreator, false, &cardNo, &dbID);
> }
>
This code looks wrong. DmGetNextDatabaseByTypeCreator() returns
errNone (0) if there is no error, and it returns
> What does DmGetNextDatabaseByTypeCreator return? Does it only return
> a
> value (dmErrCantFind) when no more of my databases are found? If so,
> how
> does this algorithm work? Will it ever go into the loop if
> DmGetNextDatabaseByTypeCreator only returns a value when no more
> databases
> are found? (i.e. The if statement will never be true?)
>
>
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