Thanks, woulda stared at that for hours.. :) Wonder where else i've made that mistake... :)
Thanks again. Steve K "LionScribe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > StrLen gives you the length without the Null-Terminator, therefore you > should always be using StrLen()+1 > LionScribe > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve K > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:21 PM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: DmWrite/DmGetRecord > > > Strange things are amuck in the Dm world for me today. > > I hope this is something simple, but here goes. > > I am still learning how to use the palm database and so I am making calls to > DmWrite and then to DmGetRecord to verify that all data is being accuratly > accounted for. > > After making the DmWrite call, everything seems to be fine. > I am writing a null terminated string to the DB as a record. (any better > way to do this? I have ' ' delimited fields) Anyway, using the debugger, > everything looks fine. > > When I make my call to DmGetRecord, I get the record and everything is > great, except that there are extra characters at the end of my record, most > noticably is a strange cresent moon shape at the very end. Where is this > data coming from? > > I have narrowed it down, I think, to my call to DmWrite, maybe I don't > understand what it is asking for but this is what I am trying: > I have also tried what is in the commented area with s as the first param to > DmWrite, with the same results. > > Boolean foo(char* data); > Err errDb; > UInt16 index = 0; > > MemHandle newRec = DmNewRecord(gDatabase, &index, StrLen(data)); > > /* > MemPtr s; > > if(newRec) > s = MemHandleLock(newRec); > else > return false; > */ > errDb = DmWrite(MemHandleLock(newRec), index, rec.RawData, > StrLen(data)); > > errDb = DmReleaseRecord(gDatabase, index, false); > MemHandleUnlock(newRec); > > return (errDb==errNone); > } > > I will continue to play with this in the mean time, but any help is > appreciated. > > tia, > > Steve K > > > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, > please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > > > > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
