Hi Sabahattin. What is the platform change under way with the BrailleNote?
Charles --- >Hi Charles, > >On 27 Oct 2004 at 13:49, Charles Pond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke, thus: > >> Is there a developers' kit in the works for writing applications for the >> BrailleNote? > >We have PulseData's unguaranteed promise of an SDK, and have done so for >quite some time now. However, allowing for the significant work PulseData >has been doing of late, and accounting for recent and more firm assertions >of an SDK to come, it is fair to expect this SDK to appear some time after >the major platform changes they are undertaking are made satisfactorily >and their platform exhibits the less serious of the resultant flees that >inevitably seem to follow. Therefore, if you are a developer, I suggest >you keep your ear to the ground for announcements from PulseData on the >matter. I certainly will. > >> Could a standard Windows-CE (or whatever the op-sys is for the >> BrailleNote) developers' package work if the calls for the speech and >> Braille display were supplied from Pulse Data? > >For the current version of Windows CE (version 2.12), the SDK is not >standard - it is built per platform by the manufacturer of the Windows CE >device. You can fetch the current Windows CE SDK from PulseData as part >of the XBase source code from the download section. Future versions of >Windows CE above version 3.0 do use standard SDKs downloadable direct from >Microsoft, however, so any developer can develop an application that will >run on the BrailleNote when upgraded. However, such an application will >not be of significant use to you or us since, as you say, API procedures >for accessing various KeySoft elements would be necessary; presumably >these would include braille line draw routines, translation routines, >speech output, prompt and menu creation, and so on (at least, it should, >since these are all examples of reusable code and consistency). > >Cheers, >Sabahattin
