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Hope this will help Husnain --- ali raza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have developed an application (for windows XP) > that > gets record from sql server, converts them into > > Palm OS DB format and makes a .pdb file on desktop > PC. > The file is created successfully on desktop PC and > > when i transfer it on the PDA (Palm OS 5.2.1) it is > correctly installed and works perfectly with the > > relevant application. All the records are shown > properly without any error or discrepancy. Despite > all > > > the success i have one single concern. I know that > when records are saved on Palm OS in a pdb file, it > > generates a unique id to identify every single > record. > I dont know how to generate this unique id. Right > > now i am using a unique id i obtained from a .pdb > file > backed up from Palm OS (for every other record i > > increment 1 in the id previously obtained). I fear > that these IDs may conflict with the one origonally > > generated by Palm OS and may cause loss of data. So > my > questions are: > 1) what is the way Palm OS generates an id to > uniquely > identify records in a database resource file(.pdb) > > file? > 2) Do i need to generate a unique id as per the way > Palm OS does or a unique id generated by adopting > any > > formula would serve the purpose? > > Ali > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. > http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, > or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
