Re: Read Palm Database from PC : please help

2008-05-29 Thread Dave Lippincott
@news.palmos.com Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 11:01 PM Subject: Read Palm Database from PC : please help Hello: I am new to palm and I want to read palm database structure, record names and their size, from a PC application. I have done it on palm programes but haven't come across an example where from

Re: Is there any limitation to the size ofa Palm database ?

2008-05-28 Thread Dave Lippincott
, December 06, 2000 7:22 AM Subject: Is there any limitation to the size ofa Palm database ? -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/

About the record status of palm database

2008-05-28 Thread hymanho
hello, How can I know the record status if I insert a new record in palm database, whether check the dirty flag of record attribute? and if I want to reset that flag , What can I do? Thanks

Re: About access the Palm database directly

2008-05-28 Thread Richard M. Hartman
hymanho wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hello I have a palm application need to access more than one database in palm. Normally, I need to create the record structure for each database, but that will increase the program size and do not common. the more database I access ,the more

About access the Palm database directly

2008-05-28 Thread hymanho
Hello I have a palm application need to access more than one database in palm. Normally, I need to create the record structure for each database, but that will increase the program size and do not common. the more database I access ,the more record structure I must create. so I wonder

Re: Searching/Filtering Palm database records

2006-03-27 Thread David Thacker
Andy, I'm not sure where you are at in your application development cycle, but you may want to consider taking a few hours to evaluate our Satellite Forms rapid application development tool for PalmOS and PocketPC: http://www.satelliteforms.net/ Satellite Forms is geared primarily to

Re: Searching/Filtering Palm database records

2006-03-26 Thread Roger Stringer
At 03:15 AM 3/26/2006, you wrote: Subject: Searching/Filtering Palm database records From: Anand Kale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:16:23 +0530 I need to filter a Palm PDB containing 50 records based on a unique key identifying each record. I donot want to filter in in memory

Searching/Filtering Palm database records

2006-03-25 Thread Anand Kale
Hi Palm Gurus, I need to filter a Palm PDB containing 50 records based on a unique key identifying each record. I donot want to filter in in memory; but rather at the database level like a RDBMS SQL select query .. Most probably i would need to get only one record at a time based on the query

Re: Palm database size limits?

2006-03-24 Thread Pablo Montilla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Cooper wrote: 64K records are teorethical I think. They are, there is some space taken up with various bits and pieces. I think the actual number is 65505 bytes, but that's off the top of my head Yup, that's what's stated in the

Re: Palm database size limits?

2006-03-24 Thread Ben Combee
65505 worked on the OS 4 and earlier devices, but IIRC, the header size changed during the move to ARM, growing a little larger. When I did the CW for Palm OS V9 linker, I chunked at 64000 bytes just to be safe. On 3/24/06, Pablo Montilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: Palm database size limits?

2006-03-22 Thread Jan Slodicka
Message - From: Linn Kubler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum To: Palm Developer Forum palm-dev-forum@news.palmos.com Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 1:01 AM Subject: Palm database size limits? Hi, After reading Daniel Seifert's response to Tom's question on Palm databases I'm left

Re: Palm database size limits?

2006-03-22 Thread Pablo Montilla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan Slodicka wrote: Hi Linn, 64K records (record index is UInt16), each record up to 64K long and this length may vary among records. 64K records are teorethical I think. I've not found a reliable number but 64000 bytes works better (don't

Re: Palm database size limits?

2006-03-22 Thread Linn Kubler
Pablo and Jan, Thanks for the information. But is there a limit to the total size of the tables? I'm using Satellite Forms and importing data from a Visual FoxPro application. Thanks, Linn --- Pablo Montilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan

Re: Palm database size limits?

2006-03-22 Thread Pablo Montilla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linn Kubler wrote: Pablo and Jan, Thanks for the information. But is there a limit to the total size of the tables? I'm using Satellite Forms and importing data from a Visual FoxPro application. Mmmm...we've generated databases of 45Mb with

Re: Palm database size limits?

2006-03-22 Thread Jim Cooper
64K records are teorethical I think. They are, there is some space taken up with various bits and pieces. I think the actual number is 65505 bytes, but that's off the top of my head Cheers, Jim Cooper _ Jim Cooper[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Palm database size limits?

2006-03-22 Thread Douglas Handy
Linn, But is there a limit to the total size of the tables? I'm using Satellite Forms and importing data from a Visual FoxPro application. The limitations vary somewhat by OS version. Prior to OS 3.5, the headers did not specify UInt16 but just used signed integers everywhere. Thus before

Palm database size limits?

2006-03-21 Thread Linn Kubler
Hi, After reading Daniel Seifert's response to Tom's question on Palm databases I'm left wondering What are the limits of a database on a Palm Pilot? The 64K limit Daniel refers to is a record size limit, correct? How about limits on how many tables you can have and how many records/table

Re: Reading Palm database record

2006-01-27 Thread Anand Kale
John, It still doesnot work .. I am created the PDB using PDB converter. Is it causing problem because of the format ? I am able to get the first field of the structure. But not others ?? Do you have sample program for reading db records field wise .. ?? Pls let me know how to go about this ..

Reading Palm database record

2006-01-25 Thread Anand Kale
Hi, We are trying to read Palm DB records and then trying to access the data from each column of the record using offsetof. But we get only the data from first column of the record. How to get the data from remaining columns ? Also we need to get data in temporary data structures and not

problem in palm database programming

2005-11-02 Thread tech . sanjib
I am new to plam OS programming , currently working in palm database. I have taken one example from book and it's compiled without any error . How I can test it ??? Is there any way to test it , with out integrating with my user interface application. -- For information on using

RE: problem in palm database programming

2005-11-02 Thread Thom Luxford
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 2, 2005 2:56 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: problem in palm database programming I am new to plam OS programming , currently working in palm database. I have taken one example from book and it's compiled without any error . How I

Palm Database versus Memory use

2005-09-15 Thread Udi Kobi
Hi, Instead of storing data in a dynamic linked list, Is it practical to use a database? Which way is more efficient and recommended? Thanks, -Udi -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Re: Palm Database versus Memory use

2005-09-15 Thread Henk Jonas
Udi Kobi wrote: Hi, Instead of storing data in a dynamic linked list, Is it practical to use a database? Which way is more efficient and recommended? Thanks, -Udi Databases are stored in storage memory, you usually have much more of this then of dynamic memory. The databases can be a

Re: How Encryption can be done for Palm database fields?

2005-06-07 Thread srimanarayana 2k
Thanks for replying. How i can use this TEA... But my application encryption needs RSA type, there is any examples in DES algo if you know please reply back. This DES is done by public key and private key. Any examples regarding to this encryption decryption in palm based, please help in this

Re: How Encryption can be done for Palm database fields?

2005-06-07 Thread Ingbert Grimpe
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 06:53:26 -0700 (PDT), srimanarayana 2k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But my application encryption needs RSA type, there is any examples in DES algo if you know please reply back. This DES is done by public key and private key. DES is a symmetric cipher ... Please check some

How Encryption can be done for Palm database fields?

2005-06-06 Thread srimanarayana 2k
hi, I have implemented a application, i am storing some values in the database this dabase fields should be encryped and stored in database fields. How this process can be done i am in fully confused. I am checking RSA algorithm In that algorithm they are doing encryption with public

re: How Encryption can be done for Palm database fields?

2005-06-06 Thread roderick young
For RSA, there is a certain datum size that you choose, such as (say) 64 bits = 8 bytes. If your string is shorter than that, zero-fill the 64-bit chunk before encrypting. If your string is longer than that, just do it 64 bits at a time, and zero-fill the last chunk, if it doesn't come out

Re: How Encryption can be done for Palm database fields?

2005-06-06 Thread Ingbert Grimpe
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 00:20:23 -0700 (PDT), srimanarayana 2k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stay on AES. With 256 bit it's almost unbreakable (today ...). Even 3DES (which is basically DES done 3 times to get an effective keylen of 168 bit) is practically unbreakable. Currently any crypto-algo that

How Encryption can be done for Palm database fields?

2005-06-04 Thread srimanarayana 2k
hi, I have implemented a application, i am storing some values in the database this dabase fields should be encryped and stored in database fields. How this process can be done i am in fully confused. I am checking RSA algorithm In that algorithm they are doing encryption with public Key and

Re: Palm Database Book or Reference Recommendations

2005-05-29 Thread Logan Shaw
Katie A. (Moor) Siek wrote: Also, does anyone know a good hash function that works on Palms? Surely that would depend on what kind data you're trying to hash... Strings? Floating point numbers? Prime numbers? RGB values? Pointers? - Logan -- For information on using the PalmSource

Re: Palm Database Book or Reference Recommendations

2005-05-29 Thread Katie A. (Moor) Siek
I'm trying to hash a string. It is a string of numbers, but the number is 12 digits long - too big for a Int32. Thanks, Katie On May 29, 2005, at 1:39 AM, Logan Shaw wrote: Katie A. (Moor) Siek wrote: Also, does anyone know a good hash function that works on Palms? Surely that would

Re: Palm Database Book or Reference Recommendations

2005-05-29 Thread Miro Pomsar
Hi, you should really consider to convert the 12 digit string to a 64bit struct like typedef struct tagBigNum { UInt32 hi; // first 6 digits UInt32 lo ; // last 6 digits } BigNum ; Holding an array of 12 byte strings would not be very effective (#items x

Re: Palm Database Book or Reference Recommendations

2005-05-29 Thread Stadin, Benjamin
Hm what's the math behind this hashing method? I have some doubts if it's discrete hashing without a prime. If you square and shift numbers it's possible that a range of other numbers have the same result, or not ...? I'm using Elf-hash for fulltext search. If your 12 digits are for

Palm Database Book or Reference Recommendations

2005-05-28 Thread Katie A. (Moor) Siek
Could anyone give me recommendations on good Palm Database books or references? I am creating a rather large database, so I would be interested in decreasing the size of my database, creating database ?images? (when you have a database independent from your application that the app references

Re: Transfer records from palm database to an SQL database

2005-04-01 Thread ULStudent:Kieran.Long
Hi, I have a question about HTTP protocols. What i would like to know, is it possible to send a request like the following to a web server? char buf[bufLen] = POST /calogic/index.php HTTP/1.1; char buf2[bufLen] = Host: longini; char contentBuf[bufLen] = content-type: text/plain; char

Re: Transfer records from palm database to an SQL database

2005-04-01 Thread Logan Shaw
ULStudent:Kieran.Long wrote: I have a question about HTTP protocols. What i would like to know, is it possible to send a request like the following to a web server? char buf[bufLen] = POST /calogic/index.php HTTP/1.1; char buf2[bufLen] = Host: longini; char contentBuf[bufLen] = content-type:

Transfer records from palm database to an SQL database

2005-03-28 Thread ULStudent:Kieran.Long
Hi, I am developing an application that will send records from a palm database to an SQL database on my web server.(i am not using conduits) I have established a connection with my server using NetLib, but how do i get my application to call a PHP script to handle my records. Kieran

Re: Transfer records from palm database to an SQL database

2005-03-28 Thread Miguel Angel Sotomayor Hernandez
this helps. Miguel ULStudent:Kieran.Long wrote: Hi, I am developing an application that will send records from a palm database to an SQL database on my web server.(i am not using conduits) I have established a connection with my server using NetLib, but how do i get my application to call a PHP script

Storing Static Data on a Palm -- Database?

2005-02-01 Thread Scott Rock
I'm writing an application for PalmOS using Codewarrior. My app needs to read in about 20 records of data. Each record will have a name string and a visited boolean variable. When the app starts up, I'd like to read this data into some sort of linked list. Then as the app iterates through

Re: Storing Static Data on a Palm -- Database?

2005-02-01 Thread Tim Kostka
The easiest way is to use the preferences, as long as your data is relatively small. It's straightforward, store the data on exit and retrieve it on entry. You should be able to find examples if the documentation isn't enough. --- Tim Kostka Scott Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message

Re: Storing Static Data on a Palm -- Database?

2005-02-01 Thread Chris Tutty
Scott Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message I'm writing an application for PalmOS using Codewarrior. My app needs to read in about 20 records of data. Each record will have a name string and a visited boolean variable. When the app starts up, I'd like to read this (snip) What is the

re: Palm database don't want to synchronize

2005-01-14 Thread ales . porenta
No I don't think this is it, because also my conudit fails to synchronize this database on palm and there cannot be timeout, because conduit fails in the middle of writing record in the database Ale -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see

Re: Palm database don't want to synchronize

2005-01-14 Thread Douglas Handy
Ales, 1. Make a table with 2 recs 100Bytes large and tried to sync it on T5, but sync failed How much free space is on your T5? On the T5, each record consumes a multiple of 512 bytes of memory, whereas on most other devices (excluding the Treo 650) it consumes the exact record

Palm database don't want to synchronize

2005-01-13 Thread ales . porenta
Hi, I made a conduit to transfer several databases on Palm and also an application which worked fine till now. I tried to install this application in T5, but when I start conduit, synchronization fails (UNKNOWN_ERROR) Any suggestion what am I doing wrong (or what is wrong with PalmOS ver.

re: Palm database don't want to synchronize

2005-01-13 Thread Jeff Wheeler
Our experience has been that the T5 and some other T models won't HotSync large files to internal memory. Large seems to be in the 2M or larger range. If your files are 2M or larger, I suspect this is the problem. The error we see most often in the log is 6410, connection lost. Google for

Re: palm database records question

2004-11-13 Thread Ralph Curtis
It would probably be a good idea to review the addressbook and memopad sample apps to get a good grounding in using a palm database. They deal with variable length records and many many other things you will find useful. The palm os programming bible is another good resource when starting out

palm database records question

2004-11-11 Thread Luc Raymond
I am a new palm os developer.I have a question related to records. I will be writing a news application and I was thinking about a structure like this to store my news items: News { headline char(30) description char(300) date uint } If I write the whole structure for each news item, it

Re: palm database records question

2004-11-11 Thread Aaron Ardiri
I am a new palm os developer.I have a question related to records. I will be writing a news application and I was thinking about a structure like this to store my news items: News { headline char(30) description char(300) date uint } struct { uint16 headline_length; char

Re: palm database records question

2004-11-11 Thread tut.by
LR I am a new palm os developer.I have a question related to records. I will be writing a news application and I was thinking about a structure like this to store my news items: LR News LR { LR headline char(30) LR description char(300) LR date uint LR } LR If I write the whole

Re: palm database records question

2004-11-11 Thread Luc Raymond
but if I do only one field like char newsitem[]=news headlines\tnews description\ttoday's date; and write a new record of strlen(newsitem). Would that be fine? each news items would have a different size and that would be efficient. after, I would read back my string of size (x) and split each

Re: palm database records question

2004-11-11 Thread Robert Moynihan
Luc Raymond wrote: but if I do only one field like char newsitem[]=news headlines\tnews description\ttoday's date; and write a new record of strlen(newsitem). Would that be fine? each news items would have a different size and that would be efficient. after, I would read back my string of size (x)

Re: palm database records question

2004-11-11 Thread Luc Raymond
thanks for the clear reply! I was not suggesting / as the delimiter but /t which is considered as the TAB character in a string. :-) Your proposed / delimiter would work as long as your strings will NEVER contain / characters, of course. Personally, I would use the NULL character for a

Re: palm database records question

2004-11-11 Thread Robert Moynihan
Ah, right, I missed that. But my point still stands that your strings could not then contain anything like yesterday/today, for instance. If you use the NULL as a delimeter then you could do something like the following... { MemHandle recH=NULL; Char *recP=NULL; Char *headline,

Re: palm database records question

2004-11-11 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 07:35:18AM -0500, Luc Raymond wrote: but if I do only one field like char newsitem[]=news headlines\tnews description\ttoday's date; and write a new record of strlen(newsitem). Would that be fine? each news items would have a different size and that would be

Converting a text file from PC format to Palm Database format

2004-07-02 Thread Roger Stringer
Subject: Converting a text file from PC format to Palm Database format From: Nur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:18:28 -0500 X-Message-Number: 25 What would be the best way to convert a text file from PC format to Palm Database format? Of course, the data will have to be broken down

Converting a text file from PC format to Palm Database format

2004-07-01 Thread Nur
What would be the best way to convert a text file from PC format to Palm Database format? Of course, the data will have to be broken down to 64K chunks of records. Thanks, Nur -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support

Re: Converting a text file from PC format to Palm Database format

2004-07-01 Thread Ben Combee
At 12:18 PM 7/1/2004, you wrote: What would be the best way to convert a text file from PC format to Palm Database format? Of course, the data will have to be broken down to 64K chunks of records. Convert it to a file stream, and use the FileOpen/FileRead/FileClose APIs on the device. The tool

RE: encryption/decryption Palm Database

2004-03-08 Thread Colin MacKenzie
removes the character during the synchronisation process. Anyone got any ideas? Colin -Original Message- From: Jonathan Mackenzie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March 2004 17:31 To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: RE: encryption/decryption Palm Database Is it possible that the encryption

RE: encryption/decryption Palm Database

2004-03-05 Thread Colin MacKenzie
I have implemented encryption on the palm device using code previously posted by Alan Ingleby that utilised the RC4 algorithm. I encrypt some text on the client using VB code I obtained from an open source website, then I decrypt it on the Palm. I encrypted the message: This should work

RE: encryption/decryption Palm Database

2004-03-03 Thread Colin MacKenzie
that they are willing to share? Colin -Original Message- From: Michael Yam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 February 2004 02:24 To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: encryption/decryption Palm Database You might consider a translucent database, that is the record is partially encrypted

Re: encryption/decryption Palm Database

2004-03-03 Thread Aaron Ardiri
I need to encrypt/decrypt data for my project too, although I do not need to sort it while it is encrypted. I found some code on the archive that uses the RC4 algorithm (posted by Alan Ingleby) but my customer does not think RC4 is secure enough. Has anyone written code for AES or 3-DES

RE: encryption/decryption Palm Database

2004-03-03 Thread Colin MacKenzie
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 March 2004 08:59 To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: encryption/decryption Palm Database I need to encrypt/decrypt data for my project too, although I do not need to sort it while it is encrypted. I found some code on the archive that uses the RC4 algorithm

RE: encryption/decryption Palm Database

2004-03-03 Thread Ron Nicholson
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 00:46:19, Colin MacKenzie wrote: I need to encrypt/decrypt data for my project too, although I do not need to sort it while it is encrypted. I found some code on the archive that uses the RC4 algorithm (posted by Alan Ingleby) but my customer does not think RC4 is secure enough.

Re: encryption/decryption Palm Database

2004-03-03 Thread Chris Faherty
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:25 am, Ron Nicholson wrote: http://www.coopcomp.com/AESLib/ I'm using that one. Very nice. This is probably in a FAQ, but if you test it in the simulator you should force 68K mode as the simulator is x86 and will crash when it tries to run the ARM code.

Re: encryption/decryption Palm Database

2004-03-03 Thread Aaron Ardiri
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC4_cipher Because the algorithm is known, it is no longer a trade secret. -- why not change the algorithm slightly? :) We are not using wireless and I think a symmetric key is fine. If I could get a hold of some open source AES or 3DES code, I could show my

RE: encryption/decryption Palm Database

2004-03-03 Thread Colin MacKenzie
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 March 2004 09:58 To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: encryption/decryption Palm Database http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC4_cipher Because the algorithm is known, it is no longer a trade secret. -- why not change the algorithm slightly? :) We are not using wireless

Re: encryption/decryption Palm Database

2004-03-03 Thread Pascal LEVY
Because the algorithm is known, it is no longer a trade secret. -- why not change the algorithm slightly? :) We are not using wireless and I think a symmetric key is fine. If I could get a hold of some open source AES or 3DES code, I could show my customer the performance compared to

RE: encryption/decryption Palm Database

2004-03-03 Thread Colin MacKenzie
/decryption Palm Database Because the algorithm is known, it is no longer a trade secret. -- why not change the algorithm slightly? :) We are not using wireless and I think a symmetric key is fine. If I could get a hold of some open source AES or 3DES code, I could show my customer

Re: encryption/decryption Palm Database

2004-03-03 Thread Aaron Ardiri
OK I got a hold of Aaron's white paper from http://www.ardiri.com/publications/palmsource2000.pdf i have been meaning to write a revision 2 to this - specifically to cover how i did the DRM within our Lemmings product and the Tapwave Zodiac device :) - as you can see from the filename, its from

Re: encryption/decryption Palm Database

2004-03-03 Thread Stuart Eichert
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:25:25AM -0800, Ron Nicholson wrote: On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 00:46:19, Colin MacKenzie wrote: I need to encrypt/decrypt data for my project too, although I do not need to sort it while it is encrypted. I found some code on the archive that uses the RC4 algorithm (posted by

Re: encryption/decryption Palm Database

2004-03-03 Thread Stuart Eichert
If you are using the Palm OS 5 Simulator you should use the supplied DLL. Just copy it into the same directory as PalmSim.exe. Stuart On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 04:48:16AM -0500, Chris Faherty wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:25 am, Ron Nicholson wrote: http://www.coopcomp.com/AESLib/

Re: encryption/decryption Palm Database

2004-02-29 Thread Jefferson Samuel
Thanks for your valuable inputs. I have pasted my skeleton code of newRecord function. Please tell me if I can do anything more to improve the speed. I think AES encryption algorithm executes fast, it the problem with my procedure. Appreciate your time. With regards Jeffy flag =

Re: encryption/decryption Palm Database

2004-02-28 Thread Michael Yam
Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello All, I have functions to encrypt-EN() decrypt-DE() a record in the palm database. I have a function NewRecord(Char *col1,Char *Col2) to insert the values to the database. I want the records to be stored in the Encrypted form

Re: encryption/decryption Palm Database

2004-02-27 Thread Matt Graham
strings. Would it help to encrypt the entire record at once instead of each column at a time? -matt Jefferson Samuel wrote: I have functions to encrypt-EN() decrypt-DE() a record in the palm database. I have a function NewRecord(Char *col1,Char *Col2) to insert the values to the database. I want

Re: encryption/decryption Palm Database

2004-02-27 Thread Nicholas Guarracino
NewRecord(): 1) Find the Sort Position. (Not possible b'coz records are in encrpyted, so How can I compare records? ) You could leave a bit of the record decrypted solely for the purposes of sorting. This is similar to Excel, for example. The type length of each record are stored

encryption/decryption Palm Database

2004-02-26 Thread Jefferson Samuel
Hello All, I have functions to encrypt-EN() decrypt-DE() a record in the palm database. I have a function NewRecord(Char *col1,Char *Col2) to insert the values to the database. I want the records to be stored in the Encrypted form. EG:NewRecord(Char *col1,Char *Col2) -- NewRecord

RE: Palm Database

2003-07-14 Thread Sagaon Luis Xavier
Subject: Palm Database I am having a problem with my database. The problem is I don't really know how to access it. Below is my layout of the database. When I click a button on my form, I call another form to display a list of data from the database. Everytime I try this, it shows me what

Re: Palm Database

2003-07-14 Thread David
can download this application I will appreciated. Thanks.. -Original Message- From: David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 9:39 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Palm Database I am having a problem with my database. The problem is I don't really know

Re: Palm Database

2003-07-12 Thread Oliver
I am having a problem with my database. The problem is I don't really know how to access it. With the limited amount of information you provided, I doubt that anyone can pinpoint your problem. I think you should consider reading a book on PalmOS Programming (check Amazon and the archives of

Palm Database

2003-07-11 Thread David
I am having a problem with my database. The problem is I don't really know how to access it. Below is my layout of the database. When I click a button on my form, I call another form to display a list of data from the database. Everytime I try this, it shows me what is in my Customer field,

Palm Database Question

2002-09-27 Thread Lucy
I have a seach page and a result page in my app. The result page deals with a completely different db from the search page. When I come back from the result page to search again, which way is better(faster): close the db in result or leave it open? I am thinking to close the db right after I

Palm Database Questions

2002-09-06 Thread Brad Figler
A couple of quick palm database questions: Question 1: Does Palm store any type of index table for Unique ID's or does it do a linear search every time you call DmFindRecord(); Question 2: I am assuming that the above answer is 'does a linear search', so I am implementing my own Add

Re: Palm Database Questions

2002-09-06 Thread Chris DiPierro
Does Palm store any type of index table for Unique ID's or does it do a linear search every time you call DmFindRecord(); Linear search from what I remember. conserver space, but, I am worried about having duplicate unique ID's. What will palm do if it two records have the same

Re: Regarding Palm Database (PDB)

2002-09-04 Thread Dave Lippincott
possible with OS 5 (if any changes at all) - Original Message - From: S. Najeeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 4:35 PM Subject: RE: Regarding Palm Database (PDB) Yeah i do know that there will be only one user, but in a program

RE: Regarding Palm Database (PDB)

2002-09-04 Thread Robert McKenzie
- From: Dave Lippincott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 6:06 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Regarding Palm Database (PDB) The Palm OS is single threaded for applications. Any files opened by an application are automatically closed when the program

RE: Regarding Palm Database (PDB)

2002-09-04 Thread S. Najeeb
, September 04, 2002 7:30 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: RE: Regarding Palm Database (PDB) Syed: Dave is not quite correct here. While PalmOS is single threaded for applications, applications can be sub-launched in a variety of ways. Probably the most common is during a Find. Application

Re: Regarding Palm Database (PDB)

2002-09-04 Thread Dave Lippincott
Thanks, I forgot that case. (I also didn't mention shared libraries) - Original Message - From: Robert McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 10:00 AM Subject: RE: Regarding Palm Database (PDB) Syed: Dave

Regarding Palm Database (PDB)

2002-09-03 Thread S. Najeeb
Hello All I Need an Urgent information Regarding the database in Palm How many users can open and use the database(PDB File) in Palm Simultaneously. If so how it is possible. Thanks in Advance Regards Syed -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please

Re: Regarding Palm Database (PDB)

2002-09-03 Thread Steve Mann
How many users can open and use the database(PDB File) in Palm Simultaneously. If so how it is possible. Since there is usually only one user, the smart-aleck answer is one. However, I believe that one _program_ can have a database open in read-write mode, and several others can have it open

RE: Regarding Palm Database (PDB)

2002-09-03 Thread S. Najeeb
]]On Behalf Of Steve Mann Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 2:03 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Regarding Palm Database (PDB) How many users can open and use the database(PDB File) in Palm Simultaneously. If so how it is possible. Since there is usually only one user, the smart-aleck answer

Re: Urgent Help ( Palm Database )

2002-08-13 Thread Tom Frauenhofer
Just a few quick etiquette points: 1) Posting the same message twice to the board doesn't often elicit responses 2) The words Urgent and Important in subject lines tends to cut down the number of responses as well. Subjects should be descriptive. 3) This post really belongs in the conduit

RE: Urgent Help ( Palm Database ) - creating PDBs from SQL databases

2002-08-13 Thread Andre Quitta
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Frauenhofer Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 11:02 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Urgent Help ( Palm Database ) Just a few quick etiquette points: 1) Posting the same message twice to the board doesn't often elicit

Urgent Help ( Palm Database )

2002-08-12 Thread D Johan
Hello I have my database is at SQLServer and Desktop version is i made in Power Builder and Palm application i am tring to made with Mobile Builder or with code warrier or PDAToolKit . So tell me how I can convert my data to palm . From SQLServer I can convert my file to .cvs form but for .pdb

palm database attributes

2002-05-16 Thread Keith Monahan
Hi all, I've been trying to decode the attributes field of the palm database header. I'm looking at http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/docs/fileformats/Intro.html#939653 which shows the format of the palm database header. It shows the offset for the attributes field at 0x20, and 2 bytes

Re: palm database attributes

2002-05-16 Thread Keith Monahan
. Would you agree? Thanks again, Keith M - Original Message - From: Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 4:36 PM Subject: Re: palm database attributes --- Keith Monahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to decode

Re: Bitmap type in Palm database

2002-03-12 Thread Kashev Georgi
BitmapPtr is not BitmapType! Storing a pointer in database doesn't help you at all, because when you retieve it back it may be not valid (especially when quiting the application). Storing BitmapType is also bad idea. I think the best is to store the id of the bitmap and to get it from resource in

Re: Bitmap type in Palm database

2002-03-12 Thread Dave Lippincott
Subject: Bitmap type in Palm database Hi, everybody: i have developed a palm application where the database contain a list of strings record + 1 bitmap record .. how to define my database structure, initially, i define it as typedef struct { char *fields[FieldsCount]; BitmapPtr

Re: Bitmap type in Palm database

2002-03-12 Thread Dave Carrigan
cpssband cpssband [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: typedef struct { char *fields[FieldsCount]; BitmapPtr Graphic } TestDBRecordType; You can't use a BitmapPtr. That tells the compiler that Graphic is a 4-byte value that points to a BitmapType somewhere else in memory. For that

Bitmap type in Palm database

2002-03-11 Thread cpssband cpssband
Hi, everybody: i have developed a palm application where the database contain a list of strings record + 1 bitmap record .. how to define my database structure, initially, i define it as typedef struct { char *fields[FieldsCount]; BitmapPtr Graphic } TestDBRecordType; however,

Re: Creating Palm Database On Desktop

2001-09-15 Thread manish jaggi
PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Creating Palm Database On Desktop Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:42:00 -0600 Hi, I'm trying to create a Palm DB on the desktop. I've read the docs etc and am changing the byte order to account for the 'endian' differences of the two

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