Re: list and database help

[Ben Combee]

At 13:49 2002-12-2 -0800, you wrote:

This is my first Palm project and I am using
CodeWarrior 8.0. I have gone through the tutorial that
comes with CW. It helped a lot and I got my forms set
up.

On my first form (a search form), I need two dropdown
lists (one has 80 records and the other has close to
200 items). Questions:

1) Should I pre-populate these two lists with
selections at design time OR populate them at runtime
from two different databases (they don't change very
often)? Which is faster?

Populating at design time is faster, since the text will already be in memory, stored along with the form.

2) The selections the user make from the search form
will generate a result form (my 2nd form). If I
populate the lists from databases, I should be able to
use the record key reference instead of text.

3) Is there any tutorial or such that demonstrates how
to work with lists and database?

Look at the recipes at http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/docs/recipes/ for a lot of good advice.

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Ben Combee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
Palm OS programming help @ www.palmoswerks.com


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