From: "Clive Walden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Chris, > > The best answer IMHO is not to investigate this yourself. There > > are a number of tools for building PDB files and there's little reason > > to write this code again. > > Thanks for the advice. However, that is not an option open to me > for reasons I can not go into now. > That's fine, you should still be able to use the source code for reference. I'm sure I remember seeing the par source somewhere. The only problem I recall from my work was that some of the source out there didn't fullly explain why some things were done (and since some of the alignment and byte-swapping can be nasty that's more of an issue than it would be otherwise).
> I thought (wrongly?) that these tools did not let you build your own > records inside Palm records. For example one of my tables will have > more than 400,000 records in it which is more than the maximum > Palm records. > It depends on the tool. Some tools are built to simplify dumping data from csv or Excel file into pdbs and these build 'record-per- row' databases. Others, such as par and PDBGo, provide more power to pack any binary content into the database but require more programming knowledge on your part. > > The Palm "PDB and PRC Database Formats" document I last > > used has a diagram that shows the AppInfo block ahead of the > > optional SortInfo block immediately followed by the database > > records. > > Do you remember which document that was? http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/docs/fileformats/PDB+PRCFormat.html found by doing a search in the developer area of www.palmsource.com, in case the url doesn't work for you. Chris Tutty -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
