Hi Doug, Ezekiel, who is in charge of granting exceptions (or not!) at Palm is quite understanding about these kinds of things... As you say, the user experience of using Find would be degraded if the user had to wait a good number of seconds for your database to be scanned. I'd go for an Exception!
Kind regards, David --- David Oakley - [EMAIL PROTECTED] director, Astraware Ltd. - http://www.astraware.com/ Games for Palm: http://www.astraware.com/palm/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gordon, > Douglas > Sent: 18 September 2000 16:49 > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: RE: Platinum question > > > I'm not going for Platinum certification, but I did make Find support an > optional feature of my product, set in a preferences screen. My program > deals with genealogy and, while using Find can be a powerful way of > searching the database, I did not think that someone who also uses his/her > Palm for PDA purposes would want to search through the information for > 10,000 dead people when looking for a business memo that they wrote :-). > > Doug Gordon > GHCS Software > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stringer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 11:42 AM > To: PalmOS Entrepreneurs Forum; [email protected] > Subject: Platinum question > > <snip> > > Right now I'm faced with two alternatives: > A) Implement a C language file scan that will work with Find, > and then provide a configuration option to allow users to > disable this, with a very strong recommendation that it always > be disabled! In other words, spend a lot of effort to add > a feature to meet Platinum requirements that will normally be > suppressed. > We'd also have to modify the C++ classes to leave information > to coordinate with the C language file scan. And this whole > exercise would be a validation nightmare. > B) Obtain an official exception for non-support of Find because of > (i) the C++ issue (not our fault!) and > (ii) the negative User effect of Find hitting these large > databases. > > Roger Stringer > Marietta Systems, Inc. > > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to > unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/ -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
