> What I mean is that PDA apps generally don't do > things that, by their nature, aren't readily accomplished on PDAs.
Uhm, I thought that generating a report on the PDA and sending it to a PC or to another PDA is something that PDAs are normally used for? > 1. Stream your report to a text file on an SD card. Not good; the receiving device might not have an SD card. > 2. Paginate your report, each page to a memo or a record in your > own database. I was thinking of splitting the report into multiple memos as a possible (albeit ugly) solution. Is this what you mean by the above? > 3. Leave the data in it's raw, and I assume smaller state, and > reproduce the report format on the fly. That's what I do in the application that creates and views the report. My question was what to do, in order to be able to export this report in some standard readable form on a PC or on another PDA that might not have my application installed. > 4. Compress the report - zlib does ok with fluffy text. Not good. First, it relies on a library, which the target device might not have. Second, it doesn't help display the report. My problem is not the total size of the report; my problem is viewing it. The total size is a problem only to MemoPad - and zlib won't solve that. > 5. Stream to a common DOC format and view with the appropriate > reader. What is considered "a common DOC format" in PalmOS and what is the reader for it? I thought it was the memo and MemoPad respectively. > 6. Similar to 3 and 4 above, I've written self extracting/viewing > report apps by appending compressed data resources to a common > execution resource. That's an interesting idea, although for various reasons I'd rather refrain from sending executables to the receiving machine. Also, neither of the above addresses the PC side. Am I stuck with writing a conduit that translates the report into a TXT file? BTW, as I said, the user needs only to view the report, not to edit it. Can MemoPad *view* memos larger than 4 Kb? Can I somehow disable the ability to edit a memo (e.g., write-protect it or something)? Regards, Vesselin -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
