Registered: Jan 2002
Location: UK
Posts: 2

Copy Diddle/Doodle files to my PC?

I just got my Visor (eBay auction ) and I've downloaded Diddle, which is a clone of Doodle. However, I can't work out how you're supposed to get the files you create with Diddle back to your PC. How do you get files created/saved by third-party apps onto your computer if the Palm Desktop only talks to its own applications? I can't see anything in my User directory that looks like the files...

Any help would be very much appreciated as this is driving me nuts! I'm sure it's something obvious that I'm missing...

Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
Posts: 2682

There's an app called DiddleEx that can read the contents of the Diddle or DiddleBug database on a Windows PC and save the files as BMP's.

In general, data from 3rd party apps is not always retrievable on the desktop, unless there's a supplied conduit or other 3rd party app to read the database files.

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Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Out of my skull, back in five minutes
Posts: 1435

I've had this problem ... I still have this problem.

Your drawings are in a backup file named DiddleDB.pdb.
Anything you add to the Index is in DiddleIDB.pdb.
These are both in your Backup folder.

The only way I've been able to get my drawings over is to use a program called BugBMP. It's a DOS app which can extract the files one at a time as bitmaps.
This is even harder for me as I have a Macintosh. I have to put BugBMP and the PDB on a disk and sneakernet it to the library everytime I want to empty my pad.

Anyway, it can be found here:
http://twpda.virtualave.net/e_index.htm

I've been unable to get DiddleEx to work at all. Apparently, whatever computer you use it on has to have Visual Basic, which is apparently MIA on the public computers I have access to.

I've asked before, if anyone knows of or has written something simpler, please let me know ...

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Registered: Jan 2002
Location: UK
Posts: 2

Excellent!

Thanks a lot! I installed DiddleEx and it's exactly what I was looking for :-)

Take note, though: on Win2K DiddleEx complains about the absence of VB40032.dll which you can get from that link.

Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
Posts: 2682

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Originally posted by Yorick
Apparently, whatever computer you use it on has to have Visual Basic

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