Ben Combee a écrit : > At 05:48 AM 9/12/2003, Luc Le Blanc wrote: > >Ben Combee a écrit : > > > > > Is your application on the receiving device? If so, you can make your own > > > wire format that can hold multiple records, and you'll decode that into a > > > set of records in your beam receive logic. > > > >Yes, my application has an exclusive use of this data, thus it is the one > >receiving it. I have already defined a structure to pack my records into a 4K > >chunk (or any other size) that I beam iteratively. But if I have to send > >everything at once, I would then initially allocate this chunk to be as big as > >the DB itself, which may end up more than 64K, to hold everything I'm beaming. > >That means I have to allocate the same kind of buffer on the receiving device > >too. Can't it be too big, especially if my application is not the one > >currently running on the receiving device? > > Hint: the FileOpen/FileRead/FileWrite/FileClose APIs were added to Palm OS > to give the Exchange Manager an unlimited-length buffer to store data on > the local device when converting databases into PRC and PDB files for beaming.
Onse the target DB is stored as a filestream on the receiving device, can it be converted in situ into a DB, other than via a massive read/write operation? -- Luc Le Blanc -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
