Subject: Sharing preferences From: "Richard Coutts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:12:10 -0500 X-Message-Number: 24
I'm about to release a few products that share the same Preferences. So, the applications do not share the same Creator ID as the Preferences. Rather, they each have their own Creator ID and the Preferences have a unique ID. I obviously don't want to orphan the Preferences, but at the same time, I don't want to share Creator IDs across applications (I don't think that's even possible to share Creator IDs and even it if was, I don't think I'd want to because deleting one app off the handheld would take all of the Preferences and databases with it, which would hose the other apps with the same Creator ID).
All of the apps have similar names -- e.g., AppLite, AppPro, etc.
If your programs are variations on the same thing, based on increasing levels of functionality for, presumably, more money, then perhaps they should all have the same CRID. Which would also effectively prevent more than one being installed on the same unit. The PDB's could have the same name, even if the PC names are different!
Roger Stringer Marietta Systems, Inc. (www.mariettasystems.com)
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