From: "Lance Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My application creates records. I do not want to create PDB files > because the destination for the records is FileMaker or Excel - which > don't know how to read those Palm binary file formats for import into > records or spreadsheets. Yes, I could write a plug-in for the > destination apps - but that seems riskier (because of assumptions about > the PDB internal structures) than just making the XML text available. > One option is to tag the databases for backup and then look for them in the desktop backup folder after the hotsync has completed and use a pdb2csv converter to produce files that desktop apps can import. It's an alternative, although the last time this was discussed there were a few people pointing out that conduits have become _much_ easier to write (conduits also don't require knowing anything about the PDB internal structures - the conduit API does that for you).
Chris Tutty -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
