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Ok, I finally found a thread someone posted some time back concerning
accessing a pdb's Application Information Block (AppInfo) which gave a
general nod in the direction of the source for Pilot-DB
(http://pilot-db.sourceforge.net/) in order to find the answer to how
to access the AppInfo block.

Pilot-DB has a nice function in Chooser.c called AppInfoInit() that
sets and gets the AppInfo block for a pdb.

I only needed the "get" part, so here's the code I ended up using.
APP_INFO is the struct for the particlar AppInfo block I was grabbing,
so you'll need to replace that with your struct. dbAppData is the pdb
who's AppInfo block I'm accessing. appInfoPtr will contain your
AppInfo Block data.

  LocalID    dbID, appInfoID;
  UInt16     cardNo;
  APP_INFO   *appInfoPtr;

  DmOpenDatabaseInfo(dbAppData, &dbID, NULL, NULL, &cardNo, NULL);
  DmDatabaseInfo(cardNo, dbID, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, &appInfoID, 0, 0,
0);
  appInfoPtr = MemLocalIDToLockedPtr(appInfoID, cardNo);

-Scott


scottelloco@yahoo.com (Scott Allen) wrote in message news:<f0c5ae48.0402161659.26908c35@posting.google.com>...
> 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.
> 
> Thanks very much,
> 
> -Scott