Bryan,
> ODBC drivers generally deal with databases that are "Self describing", which
> .pdb databases generally are not ( I recall some discussion among a couple
> of ex-Newton programmers that were working on this) The best you could hope
> to develop is either an ODBC driver that is specific to a single .pdb (like
> you might already know the layout of the datebook.pdb) (read: Hard Coded),
> or a super generic ODBC/.pdb reader that returns each record in a .pdb as a
> blob, and leave it up the user of the ODBC driver to then decipher each
> "blob" into the appropriate records/fields. The CDK already does something
> similar to the this anyway.
You are correct, the ODBC driver would probably just return the blob of data
from a record. Then again, that's exactly what all of the CDK and Palm OS
API data manager functions do.
The CDK does do something similar, but imagine being able to create, append,
and delete records in a PDB file from an ODBC driver. For instance, you
could easily create a PDB file from a database of company information
without having to learn the CDK API and you could do it all from whichever
development tool you were most comfortable with instead of being confined to
just VC++. Wow, that was a long sentence.
It seems like it would be a fairly useful tool.
Ryan
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