Am 22.03.2012 11:44, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
Sven Barth wrote:
Am 22.03.2012 08:54, schrieb Marco van de Voort:
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 09:36:53PM +0100, Sven Barth wrote:
While I agree with you about the suprising end of Windows Mobile I
don't
think that your time was that much wasted. Without your support for
WinCE I would not have been able to write our company application using
Lazarus and also this way Lazarus can pose as one of the few RAD IDEs
for Windows Mobile (or is it the only one even?). It might not mean
much
for many people (or even developers), but for me it's important to show
what Lazarus (together with FPC) is capable of.
I'd like to note that with a former employee, e did bid for porting the
client part of a Delphi app to wince (but didn't get the bid in the
end).
As for the rest: chose your platforms carefully can be a different
solution,
which is why I avoid android till it comes in more stable waters (if
ever)
I don't think that there is much choice for us regarding the target
platform. You need to know that I'm talking about industrial devices
here. Devices that are a bit more "tough" than usual smart phones and
contain things like barcode scanners. Currently most vendors use
Windows Mobile here (most prominent is Motorola Solutions with their
Symbol series), but with the decline of that operating system the next
best one for such devices is Android. This is also one of the reasons
why we can't do a web interface for this: We need to access the
(propritary) scanner hardware. Another reason is that some of our
customers don't want a Wifi, etc. connection in their factories, etc.
so a web service/page isn't an option then.
Unfortunately, most hardware designers don't have a clue when it comes
to designing in an industrial level of robustness- we've seen forklifts
put through wall-mounted boxes and shovels used to operate membrane
keyboards. The result is that very often the only kit that's tough
enough to do the job doesn't have enough of a UI for modern development
tools.
Our company itself is not buying the hardware. We are only supporting
certain kinds of devices (currently only Windows Mobile 5.0 to 6.5.3
ones from Symbol (now Motorola Solutions)) and provide the software to
our customers if they need it.
We also have a true robust device as well though, but that is only - as
you also mentioned - an embedded device with a custom programming
environment and rather restricted interaction capabilities (compared to
the Windows Mobile devices).
Regards,
Sven
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