OK, I get it. I looked at ePQA. It seems pretty clever. If I
understand, you basically create a Palmcall link which takes an
action/<params> string. Several permutations seem to be, fill in the
current form fields with this information... (not based on field name,
but field order).
So, going back to your first question - you seem to be asking, how does
ePQA find the fields to insert the text?
Ugh, I don't feel right answering that one directly. I've now looked at
ePQA.PRC (it's only about 8k of code). The method seems pretty straight
forward, but it is not really my 'hack' to reveal, since I just had to
look at the working code.
Is there a reason that you don't want to just use ePQA? It seems to be
intended as a tool for developers (as opposed to an end user
application).
-jjf
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael C. Neel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 11:09 AM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Re: palmcall and the clipper
It would be possible to write a prc that has the look and feel of a pqa,
but
this isn't really what I am looking for. A palmcall to a prc that
populates
the <form> fields with data (such as address info) has several
advantages,
mostly being development time since the prc could be reused in other
pqa's.
And a pqa is much quicker/easier to develop than an prc (so that another
person could use this prc without any programming knowledge). Also it
would
save space in the user's ram, since the code to populate the form would
only
be installed once then shared.
the prc -> pqa model still has the flaw of requiring two items to be
installed on the client's end, but with a pqa -> prc design, I can hide
the
prc from the user (I'm not sure you can hide a pqa -- I'll have to look
into
that). The big plus is that a pqa automagicaly install into the
palm.net
group, and therefore the user all ready understands that it is a
wireless
app.
What I am trying to do has been done. If you haven't seen it check out
the
ePQA app by Stevens creek software -- it comes with the source to the
pqa.
Mike
"Fitzpatrick, Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:4191@palm-dev-forum...
>
> Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you wanted to get results from a
> Query and create DB records from them. It is pretty straightforward
to
> submit your own request from your PRC and stick the results in a PQA's
> cache. Would that work for you or do you really need to mix (ie, part
> is a PQA form, part is provided by a PRC)?
>
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