Yes I think that I suggested gdbm or you could just use berkely db. Or an XML format or whatever (though your ability to query against such a format is quite limited, not to mention the requirements of storing data in XML natively is a bit of a chore)... Generally, I'd think you'd want to do data import/export/passing via XML and keep your data in something more compact and robust. XML would almost require you to keep humongous chunks of data in system RAM which turns out is relatively inefficient on 16MHz Dragonball's and the like :)
John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark and Janice Juszczec Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 3:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Pgui-devel] PicoGUI PIM Hi folks A week or 2 ago, I finished (finally!) the changes to the PIM sketches. Per some feedback I got on this list about the last batch of sketches, I've added: 1. Tabs at the top to take you to the different screens (To Do, Memo etc). The tabs will replace the buttons used for navigation in some situations. 2. 2 landscape screens. One shows all related To Do and Schedule info for a given day, along with a Memo list and Calendar display. The other shows detailed information about a To Do item and its related Schedule and Memo entries. Please let me know what y'all think when you see them. The next question is, how am I going to store the data? I remember a thread from earlier this year discussing the use of gpm (I think that's the name). I'll dig that info up and give it a read. In the meantime, I was wondering how heavy duty of a database we need? Since data compression is going to be more important that just about anything else (gotta save space, gotta save space), I wonder if I'd be able to get away with storing the data in a hash? Unique keys could be generated from the date and time the entry was created thereby preventing any collisions (hopefully). If I can't find/develop any suitable text compression methods on my own, some of my co-workers could probably give me a hand. We use some pretty heavy duty compression algorithms for our products. What do y'all think? Hope y'all get your Christmas shopping done. Wish me luck! Mark _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _______________________________________________ Pgui-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel _______________________________________________ Pgui-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel
