Re: Application Information Block, how to access

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From: Scott Allen
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:34

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Opps, I almost forgot, don;t forget this line!

UnlockMemPtr(appInfoPtr);

:-)

Sorry about the multiple posts if there were any.

Thanks, -Scott

Ben Combee <combee@techwood.org> wrote in message news:<hPeYb.6771$tL3.4311@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>...
> Scott Allen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Does anyone have a sample of code (c or c++ preferably) that
> > demonstrates the reading of a Palm pdb's Application Information Block
> > (appInfo)? Even just an explination of how to access it would help me
> > a lot.
> > 
> > I've looked in a few books and searched online, but so far have only
> > been able to find out on what appInfo is, but not how to actually
> > access the data it contains.
> 
> On the device, you just call DmGetAppInfoID to get the LocalID of the 
> application info block.  Then use MemLocalIDToLockedPtr to turn that 
> into a MemPtr, using MemPtrUnlock on it when your done IF and ONLY IF 
> MemLocalIDKind returned memIDHandle.

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