Re: [pilot-db-list] Pilot-DB calculated fields

[Jan E. <li...@mo...>]

2003-03-01 13:38: Scott Wallace <swa...@my...> is
believed to have typed:

>     Great! I took a quick look at your website and noticed that
>     this is built for Mac OS X.  I should tell you that there is a
>     problem with the Mac version of Palm Desktop that prevents it
>     from transferring pilotdb databases to the palm correctly.  I
>     don't know if you've tried to get pilot-link
>     (http://www.pilot-link.org) to work on OS X, but it is one way
>     to get /complete/ databases to the palm.  If you do have it
>     working (and have found a place to download binaries), you
>     could send the url to the newgroup?  A number of people have
>     run into this problem, but there is no easy way to change the
>     db format to deal with this bug in the mac palm desktop.

How does this bug manifest itself? I haven't had any problems at all
with this since I switched to OS X (about a year ago now).


>     No.  Calculations for scripts that make within record field
>     references are done after each edit.  Calculations for scripts
>     that make inter-record field references are done only when
>     requested by the user (via explicit recalcuation, or via
>     global preferences setting).  The calculated value is then
>     stored inside the record so it can be fetched quickly.

Ahh, I thought it would do something like that. Thanks.

> field enumeration in datasource.h and what is actually stored in
> the file. So, I guess you will need to take a look at that code.

Aha, thanks. I'll take a look.

                jem
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