Trying to get my head around Palm databases and I need some strategic
information. As my first Palm app, I thought I'd write an app to keep track
of weight training - something I can take to the gym. I needs to support
adding to a list of available exercises (categorized by muscle group). Users
would enter the exercises into a utility screen. Then, while working out,
you create a new "set" record which records the date/time, exercise (from
the previous list), weight and number of reps.
So I'm wondering how this simple app will play out as a database. Is it 2
databases? One for the exercise names and one to track the sets? and would I
store the record index
And one more question - do records need to be of a uniform size? Looking at
the API it seems that I can put a variable amount of information in a
record. Is this true? What if I put a variable size array right in a record?
Can I do that? Obviously I'd need to store the size somewhere in the
beginning of the record.
Just trying to get a handle on things (no pun intended). I was a bit
disappointed with the PalmOS Companion documents. No big-picture overview.
Can anyone recommend a good resource?
Thanks.
Joseph Biron {
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Biron Software Solutions;
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