Hmm. Are people ignoring me, or do my messages not get through. Either way,
Shaw Cable sucks. ;) I really do need help with this problem...
---------- Forwarded Message From Matthew Bevan ----------
Subject: Copying a resource...
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:44:40 -0800
From: Matthew Bevan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm trying to copy a resource from my main application into a sattelite file,
that way I can leave the new file open without needing to worry about
conflicts with the rest of my resources (it's bad when you try to hotsync and
it opens a window from my app ;)
What's the best way to do this? What I currently have apparently removes the
resource from existence.
DmOpenRef appRsrc, iconRsrc;
SleepEventParamType *data;
Err error;
MemHandle CommandBarIconH;
01 FtrGet ( appCreator, 2048, (UInt32 *)&iconRsrc );
02 if ( iconRsrc ) DmCloseDatabase(appRsrc);
03 error = DmCreateDatabase(0, "QBSharedIcons", appCreator,
iconDbType, true);
04 iconRsrc = DmOpenDatabaseByTypeCreator (
iconDbType, appCreator, dmModeReadOnly );
05 if ( !error ) {
06 CommandBarIconH = DmGetResource ( bitmapRsc, BarBackupAllBitmap );
07 DmAttachResource (
iconRsrc, CommandBarIconH, bitmapRsc, BarBackupAllBitmap+3 );
08 }
09 FtrSet ( appCreator, 2048, (UInt32)iconRsrc );
- Lines 1 and 2 check for the existance of an already open icon database.
- Line 3 creates a new icon database. Yes, I don't check to see if the file
exists because the OS already does ;)
- Line 4 opens either the newly created database, or the previous one.
- Line 5 checks to see if the database was created.
- If the database was created, line 6 gets a handle to the bitmap in my
application. Line 7 attempts to attach that handle to the new database.
Can you not have one handle in multiple databases? It'd be spiffy, but I
could see why they wouldn't like me to do this...
- Line 9 copies the pointer to the open resource file so I can check later.
Ideas, anyone?
Matthew Bevan
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