Numbers are valid too. The official definition is :" A Creator ID consists of four ASCII characters. Generally, alphanumerics are chosen, but this is not a requirement. For viewability, characters are limited to ASCII 33-127 (decimal) "
so really its 94x94x94x94 or 78,074,896 minus the 456,976 reserved IDs. ----- Original Message ----- From: "kcorey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 9:58 AM Subject: RE: Throw-away appId > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 12:20, James Zatorski wrote: > > > Is there any other reason you wouldn't want to register a creator code? > > > > My only reasoning is that if everybody registered a throw-away ID there > > would be alot of wasted/unused appIds in the database. (Sooner or > > later the IDs will run out.) > > Well, with both upper and lower case combinations, there's 52x52x52x52 > combinations...or 7,311,616 combinations. Of these, Palm has reserved > all lower-case only creators, so 26x26x26x26, or 456,976. > > So, there's 6,854,640 creator codes available to developers. At the > Munich Conference, PalmSource now claims 275,000 developers. Assuming > that's accurate, we have just under 25 potential creator codes for each > developer. > > There's between 20 and 30K applications out there, depending on how you > count them. So, we've got a ways to go to fill up the namespace. > > I'm assuming we're using only letters here and no punctuation, though I > understand one could use symbols too? > > At any rate, there's a *lot* of symbols. By the time this is a problem, > I likely won't be programming on the Palm Platform any more...;^) > > -Ken > > > -- > 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/
