I should put my query another way. I have a few best books on programming for Palm including the bible by Lonnon Foster but none of these books cover how to get data from a database into a field. They go on at length about manipulating databases but what is the use of a database unless you can display the information? And they just neglect to do this.
Well they lay out examples like the one I used on how to do it but if I use that code it doesn't work so they are neglecting to tell me something about the type of data you get when you use DmQueryRecord or DMGetRecord. Obviously when I try to use the published code to put this into a field I get an error because it is not a text string and this is what these authors are not telling me. So my question is "What form of data is produced by DmQueryRecord and if it is not a Char then how do I go about converting it to Char format"? It would be nice to find this out, no thanks to the authors of these useless books but if not I will have to do it the hard way and strip down the Memo or Address sample to the bare bones to find out what the secret is. Cheers, Barry -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
