read Category from Palm

[Jürgen Knill]

Hi all

i need to read the category fields from addressbook and todolist on a palm handheld

how can i do this ? is there a way with a remote Table?
havy any a code snipped?

please help me !!!

Thanks
Jrgen

[Paul Gilbert]

You can use the Category property of the Fields property of the remote table to see the category of the current record.

[Jürgen Knill]

thanks for your quick answer

so i can get an index of the category for the record but i need the name of the category eg "Private" ...

where can i read this ?

Thanks
Jrgen

[Paul Gilbert]

If a table uses categories, then the category names/numbers list will be stored in the table's AppInfo block. Unfortunately, you'll have to manually parse the data of this block to get your category list - the proprety is a TStream descendant, so you can always read the data into an array or memory block and then get the category names from it.

[Jürgen Knill]

is there any structure in the appinfo block ?
or is there any documentation abaut the structure off the adressbook appinfo block?

Thanks Jrgen

[Paul Gilbert]

Check out:

http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/docs/fileformats/PDB_PRCFormat.html#939502

[Jürgen Knill]

Thanks for help