What we do here is store the database image in a File Stream database,
and then use ExgDBRead (to wich we provide a reader function to read the
stream) to import it.
Jerome
Russell Cagle wrote:
You can call DmCreateDatabaseFromImage(). The problem with that
function is you need the entire PRC file in one contiguous piece of
memory, which isn't always easy to do. If the PRC is larger than 64k,
you can allocate feature memory with FtrPtrNew(), and if you only
support OS 5 devices then you can allocate more than 64k, I think. If
you can depend on having an SD card, I would recommend writing the PRC
to a file and calling VFSImportDatabaseFromFile(). Finally, the PRC
database format is very simple, just a header and a bunch of indexes,
and you can parse it yourself if none of these solutions work for you.
Google "PRC file format".
Russell Cagle
Handheld Developer, Partner Software
Larry wrote:
how does the newly downloaded PRC get imported/inserted into the
device's application storage?
Can the downloaded PRC file be directly inserted into a resource
database or do I have to "parse" it and write the pieces individually?
Can you point me to any code samples or documentation?
thanks
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