At 08:52 AM 6/1/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Another IRDA request....
>
>I am trying to create an application which will communicate with a piece of
>field equipment using the palm. The piece of equipment I am trying to
>communicate with accepts an ASCII string in the form of
>[STX][MESSAGE][PAD][ETX] at 9600 baud. I have tried using the IR API with
>no luck. Is this possible? Can I send a simple ASCII string over the
>palm's IRDA port. If so can some one, any one send me an example of sending
>an ACSII string over the IRDA port of the PALM. I have played with the
>BEAMER Exchange example provided with Code Warrior with no luck. Any and
>all advice is welcomed.
Beamer uses OBEX, a higher level "object" protocol which is unlikely to be
supported by your field equipment. You need to determine the level of IrDA
supported on your equipment. Then you need to get a good primer on how to
use the Palm SDK's lower-level IR library.
1. The Palm docs give the "what" but not the "how" or the "why"
2. There was a Dr. Dobbs article a few weeks back on IR. I haven't read it
yet, but I heard it was well done.
3. Our book on Palm programming (scheduled for publication in 2 weeks)
contains an entire chapter on IR library programming, and comes with source
code for a working Palm-Palm IR application. You should be able to easily
modify this sample for your own purposes. We're working on posting an
excerpt from this chapter on our web site this week (hopefully today).
You'll also see some announcements from Macmillan/Sams and Bachmann
Software regarding the book in the next week or two.
Glenn Bachmann
President
Bachmann Software and Services, LLC
http://www.bachmannsoftware.com
Software Development for Handheld & Mobile Computing, Windows and the Internet
Home of Bachmann Print Manager, the only graphical printing solution for
the Palm Computing Platform
