Re: POSE Pilot unique ID emulation

[Jim Schram]

Hi Bobby,

>Does anyone knows what's the standard behavior of POSE when asked about the
>machine's ID?

Usually it just sits there, ignoring us humans. I've tried asking nicely, using 'please' and 'pretty please' but to no avail. I've even tried shouting, but that didn't work either. I think mine's mad at me now. :oP


>Can I rely on what I have (I haven't checked it yet, but it seems to me it
>doesn't return error code on HwrGetRomToken).

I don't know... what do you have? HwrGetRomToken returns an error if the token is not found... so which is it? BTW, you should be using SysGetROMToken, not HwrGetRomToken.


>Finally, can I somehow emulate the ID?

You could try, but your NOT a number! You're a human being!

All kidding aside, what exactly are you trying to do? Show us your code. What version of POSE? Windows or Mac? What ROM image? What ROM tokens are you trying to get? Do you want the serial number of the device or the hardware ID? Do you want to know if you're running on a licensee product or a Palm product?

If you're trying to get the unit's serial number from code running inside POSE, you'll get back a 'faked' number ("Pilot1234567" or something like that) because that information lives outside of the ROM image.

Best Regards,

Jim Schram
3Com/Palm Computing
Partner Engineering