At 14:49 2002-10-2 -0500, you wrote: >Has anyone seen or have a suggestion on how you would create a GUID on the >Palm? >I'm still researching it but thought I would drop the question to the >forum to see if anyone has already addressed doing this.
It sounds like a difficult task... on PCs, the GUID generators tend to use the network card IDs as part of their scheme, but on the device, the only unique IDs are the HotSync name and the flash ID. Not all devices have a flash ID, and the HotSync name isn't unique across the universe of devices. Still, maybe combining all of this along with a seed from the time and tick count would give enough randomness for the 128-bits needed for a GUID. If you use a conduit, you might also be able to defer GUID generation until HotSync time, where you could do it on the PC to which the device was syncing. -- Ben Combee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead Palm OS programming help @ www.palmoswerks.com -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
