thanks Ben. Have to type in all 300 entries :(
It has been a while since I worked on the Palm project. I don't seem to remember the creatorid anymore. I looked all over codeworrior and still, no luck. Does any one know where to find the creatorid? --- Ben Combee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > 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/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
