Hi Charles,
I don't know if you've looked at the overlay support, but that might be a
better way to go than what you're thinking. However, if you have reasons that
I might not understand, you _can_ use the following code (I have no idea if it
works on Cobalt, however):
//Code to utilize a form from another application or resource DB...
MemHandle handle =
DmGetResourceIndex(dbRefOfOtherApplication,recordId);
MemPtr ptr = MemHandleLock(handle);
UInt16 index = 0xFFFF;
MemHandle formHandle = DmNewResource(dbRefOfCurrentApplication, 'tFRM',
index, MemPtrSize(ptr));
MemPtr dest = MemHandleLock(formHandle);
DmWrite(dest, 0, ptr, MemPtrSize(ptr));
MemHandleUnlock(formHandle);
MemHandleUnlock(handle);
DmReleaseResource(handle);
FormPtr form = FrmInitForm(index);
//Use the form, blah, blah, blah...
//Use this when you're done with it...
FrmDeleteForm(form);
DmRemoveResource(dbRefOfCurrentApplication, index);
Hope that helps!
-Jon
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Jonathan Hays
Palm OS Certified Developer
http://hazelware.luggle.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Charles
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 7:16 AM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Use form stored in separate prc?
I'm writing an application that needs to be branded for different customers,
and localized for other languages. Here's the general idea - I would have two
.prc's. The first (call it a StubLauncher) would be contain all of the
resources (icons, bitmaps, forms, strings, etc). It would take care of the
customer specific stuff. The only logic it would have would be to launch the
second prc, which would be totally generic, passing parameters to identify the
name of the database to access and the creator id of itself, etc. The second
prc would not contain any resources - it would need to access them all from the
StubLauncher. For the localization part, I would have overlays for the
StubLauncher.
So, here's the basic question:
Is it possible to use forms that are stored in another .prc file?
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