Re: FileOpen help

[Ben Combee]

At 11:44 2003-2-4 -0700, you wrote:

hi,

can I use FileOpen() to open any db in ram?
or does the db have the Stream type?

I've tried this

        inf = FileOpen(0, "MemoDB", 'DATA', 'memo',
                      fileModeReadOnly, NULL);

and got an error. couldn't open it.

The database must have been created with FileCreate. The file streaming APIs only work on their own databases, not any others.

If you want to treat a database as a stream of data, look at the ExgDbRead and ExgDbWrite functions. These convert between internal databases and their serialized forms.

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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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