You also have to have the library open up it's own database on it's first time starting, and closing DB on exit. What you have to be very careful, is that you do not know which was the last DB opened, since the library may have been opened before current application, therefore you might end up getting the wrong resource. As for the idea of using resources above 9000, I wouldn't suggest it with shared libraries, because future developers might not do that. Also some compilers start AUTOID from 9999 and go down. I used resources in the 7000's which are less common, but I would really suggest trying is always using DmFindResource(), in your library, to open resources, so you can specify the Database. I haven't tried it yet myself. Also this doesn't solve the application using the library's resources. So be careful. LionScribe
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthew Darkstorm Bevan Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 7:50 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Shared libraries with resources : is it possible? Yes, and yes. My Common/UI library does exactly this to provide standard about dialogs, VFS open and save dialogs, help display, and more. The library even includes application icons for itself. You have to worry about mapping over someone else's resource IDs (ID collisions) - having two forms with the same ID is just asking for it. Most of my Common/UI resources are either below 1000 or above 9000 (but below the system-reserved 10,000). The way this works is the system looks for requested resources (forms and whatnot) in the most-recently-opened-database first, then in other databases by order of opening. Thus it will look in the library, then the application, then the system. There is no way to hide resources in your library from the active application that is using it, so be careful when assigning resource IDs! -- Matthew (Darkstorm) Bevan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Margin Software, NECTI. http://www.marginsoftware.com Re-inventing the wheel, every time. -- 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/
