Ed Pugh wrote:
> Is it possible to re-write memopad (to handle larger records)
> and install it in RAM, to replace the ROM version (with same
> name, creator ID, etc., but maybe a later version number)?
> Would it "confuse" the application launcher or any other
> application? Or, for that matter, would it possibly confuse
> anything else in the PalmOS?
Isn't that what PalmOne did with the T3 DIA compatibility resource
files, or at least something like it? You just put these two
PRC files in RAM, and then whenever the system looks for them,
it finds them in RAM before it finds them in ROM, so it uses
the RAM versions preferentially.
Also, looking at the DmGetNextDatabaseByTypeCreator() documentation,
it says this:
To obtain only the latest version of a database matching
the search criteria, set the value of the onlyLatestVers
parameter to true.
When determining which is the latest version of the
database, RAM databases are considered newer than ROM
databases that have the same version number. Because of
this, you can replace any ROM-based application with
your own version of it.
So, apparently, yes, you can. Or at least according to how I
read it.
(By the way, consider configuring your e-mail client to wrap lines
at something like 70 characters. That's the standard for e-mail,
and it's a bit annoying to reply to messages which aren't wrapped
like that, because I have to make my mail client re-wrap them.
(Which it's not very good at, and frankly it's not its problem
anyway, or shouldn't be IMHO.))
- Logan
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