Nick,
You need to first get the windows ir stack configured and running on your
thinkpad. Since every laptop is different in how this is done, you should
look to tech support from IBM to make sure you have that done correctly.
Once the ir port is configured for IrDA, you can turn on the palmIII, point
it at the thinkpad and the thinkpad will show your username in the irDA
dialog. The palmIII will also show that it is waiting for data. If you have
all this working, the next step is to get the QuickBeam application from
www.countersys.com. This is a standard IrDA OBEX file transfer utility.
After you install quickbeam on your thinkpad, just drag the text file you
want to transfer onto the quickbeam icon on your desktop and the file will
be sent to the palmIII. The PalmIII will ask if you want to store the data
in notepad. Say OK, and you will see the text you want on the palmIII. You
can transfer .txt files to notepad, .vcf (vcard) files to address book,
.vcs (vCalendar) files to to the datebook and todo apps and .prc,.pdb files
to the launcher. Third party apps can add other file types if they support
them. All this functionality is built in to the palmIII using IrDA
standards.
-- Gavin Peacock
Palm Computing
>Date: 8 Mar 1999 13:26:59 -0800
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Communicating with another IR device
>Hi,
>
>I am new to Palm development and have a quick question. I am attempting
to
>write a small application which will communicate with an IBM ThinkPad
using
>the infrared port. For prototyping this exercise, the goal is to copy a
>text file to the ThinkPad's IR port (ie, COPY TEST.TXT COM3:) and be able
>to display the contents of the file on the Pilot.
>
>What is the most efficient way to accomplish this? I've looked at David
>Bowerman's sample Coms wrapper at the "Tech Center Labs HotLink" web site,
>but I can't get it to work. I have also expanded on the Beamer sample to
>send text data between 2 Pilots via the Exchange Manager (which works fine
>with 2 Pilots), but I cannot get the Pilot and the ThinkPad to "talk."
>Thank you in advance....
>Nick Metianu
