At 08:17 PM 7/7/99 +0100, you wrote:
>|I am at a road block because I am unable to find any info on the IrDA
>|libraries for the palm. Where can I go for info?
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>Same here. I find it ominous that the literature constantly refers to irDA
>transfers between Palm devices but consistently avoids mention of between a
>Palm device and, say, PC.
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>Seems a curious ommission and, if it is as such, I'd be interested to know
>why it (apparently) so difficult to achieve.
Our book "Palm Programming: The Authoritative Solution" (the title was not
our idea, sorry!) by Macmillan/Sams devotes an entire chapter to how to use
the Palm IR libraries to talk IrDA. It does NOT use OBEX, but rather the
low level apis. Find the book at Amazon.com. You can also find an excerpt
of the IR chapter on our web site, www.bachmannsoftware.com.
Finally, I recall there was a recent article in Dr. Dobbs that covered this
topic.
It's not a well documented area of the Palm SDK, but we had to figure
things out the hard way in developing our Print Manager product, so we
thought we'd pass our knowledge on to the general developer community via
the book.
Hope this helps!
Glenn Bachmann
Bachmann Software and Services, LLC
http://www.bachmannsoftware.com
Software for Handheld & Wireless Computing, Windows and the Internet
Authors of "Palm Programming", published by Macmillan/Sams, and home of
Bachmann Print Manager, the only graphical printing solution for the Palm
Computing Platform
