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List:       kvm-interest
Subject:    Re: Database creation...
From:       Brill Pappin <brill.lists () JMONKEY ! COM>
Date:       1999-11-23 15:25:20
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Thats exactly what I was looking for...

As for the Type ID, I think a better question would be, does it have to be unique... \
does it use the creatorID and the Type id to make it unique.

I suspect that it at least has to be unique for an application when the same \
creatorID will be used for all its DBs.

When I first tried to use a DB, I tried 0 ( I didn't know the type represented a 4 \
char string) and it seemed to work... though the app didn't actualy do anything with \
it, so I can't say for sure.

- Brill Pappin
  www.jmonkey.com

On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 16:25:34 +0000, Damon at play <dhd@EXNET.COM> wrote:

> Brill Pappin wrote:
> > 
> > Anyone have a good algorithm for doing the conversion?
> 
> Is this what you want?
> 
> /**Type ID of this app as an ASCII String. */
> public static final String getTypeID() { return("MYID"); }
> 
> /**Type ID of this app as an int. */
> public static final int getTypeIDint()
> {
> final String typeID = getTypeID();
> return(
> (typeID.charAt(0) << 24) +
> (typeID.charAt(1) << 16) +
> (typeID.charAt(2) <<  8) +
> (typeID.charAt(3)      ));
> }
> 
> My remaining query is: is the choice of type ID completely arbitrary, or
> are there any special cases (eg 0)?
> 
> Damon
> --
> Work: dhd@exnet.com      http://www.exnet.com/
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