You have a MemPtrFree or MemHandleFree somewhere in your code which is
freeing the handle of a database record. This may be because you associate a
record with a field and do not disassociate the handle before closing the
form.
Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Preston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 9:58 AM
Subject: another newbie with 'Free handle' error
> I searched through the archives and seemed to find
> some relevant threads on this. From what I read, it
> may have something to do with trying to unlock the
> wrong kind of memory. But I still don't quite have a
> handle (pun intended) on this error.
>
> Here's my code snippet:
>
> MissionDB mission;
> UInt16 index = -1;
> MemHandle recH;
> MissionDBPtr recP;
> UInt16 i, numRecs = DmNumRecords(gDB);
>
> mission.level = missionDiff;
>
> for (i = 0; i < numRecs; i++) {
> recH = DmQueryRecord(gDB, i);
> if (recH) {
> recP = (MissionDBPtr)MemHandleLock(recH);
> if (recP->level == mission.level) {
> index = i;
> }
> MemHandleUnlock(recH);
> if (index != -1)
> break;
> }
> }
>
> I'm basically just trying to find the index of the
> matching record. At the point of the error, I only
> have 2 records in my DB. I get the 'Free handle' error
> the 2nd time through the loop. What's really strange
> is I go through this function once before in the
> program, and it works fine.
>
> Thanks
>
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