why is this so hard?

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From: Mig
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 03:52

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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?

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