Thanks for all the advice. I am responding to this as a composite of responses from Chris and Ben's most recent postings. > That's fine, you should still be able to use the source code for > reference. Always useful, I agree. In my case, I need to translate to Pascal; but that is not too hard. Especially as it is mainly calls to Palm API's anyway.
>(and since some of the alignment and byte-swapping can be nasty that's more > of an issue than it would be otherwise). I certainly need to review the alignment issues. I have byte-swapping taken care of. Pretty trivial really. As speed is not an issue on the PC, I opted for the easiest to read implementation rather than the fastest possible byte twiddling code. > Don't think of a Palm OS DB record as equivalent to a record in your > database; it's really just a block of binary data. That is how I am treating it. I already have code that can put about 28,000 records of one of my simple lookup tables into 7.2 Palm records of 62K each. (O.K. 8 Palm records really, but the eighth is appropriately smaller<s>). And, I can read it on the Palm. I actually believe I have all the PDB building blocks (objects) code written, subject to discovering alignment issues. Thanks to all again. Clive Clive Walden Walden Consulting Phone: 760-632-5856 Web site: www.clivewalden.com -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
