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The answer is it is a low level API.  It is flexible ad light weight
(small)
You can wrap it up anyway you want.  But small was more importantant a
Palms beginning than it is now.
This also explains why the string functions are funny.

Anyone have an explanation about why the Conduits API is so hard, Or is it
just the Generic Conduit?

Mig wrote:

> I am a newbie palm programmer and I can't believe this is so hard!  It
> just took me four hours to figure how to save some simple information
> to a "database".  Databases, records, memory locks, memory handles,
> memory pointers, it goes on and on.  I know this is going to make my
> app full of weird bugs.
>
> Have these people never heard of layers of abstraction?  I thought the
> SDK would have libraries that would help but apparently not.
>
> What's wrong with making some functions like these:
> if (dbptr = DBopen ("dbname", w))
>    DBprintf(dbptr, "some text");
> DBclose;
>
> Now I'm trying to figure out the scrollbars.  Looks like it's going to
> take me another four hours.  A text field should work automatically
> with a scrollbar without any code.
>
> Couldn't they make this easier?  Why do I have to figure out all the
> minute details.  They can't do anything for me?