Have your app shutdown hotsync and restart it after you're done.
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, November 08, 1999 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: Most simple way of sending data from cradled Palm...
>Dave Lippincott wrote:
>>I wrote:
>>>I presume that I cannot use the Serial Manager since HotSync will own the
>>>COM port on the Windows side.
>>Not true.
>
>>>Or is there a simpler way of doing this?
>>The simplest way is to use the serial manager routines. As long as
hotsync
>>is not currently running, your program can use the serial port (and Ir
>port)
>
>Sorry-- I must have not been clear. I am assuming that the Windows user
>will always have the HotSync manager running in the background since it's
by
>default in their Startup group. It obviously won't always be synching with
>the Palm, but it will always have control of the COM port while it's
running
>and in the system tray.
>
>That will always tie up the COM port, right? Unless there is a sneaky way
>to piggyback on top of the HotSync Manager and read a few bytes of data
here
>and there, but I don't think that's what you're saying.
>
>Thanks anyway for the reply, I do appreciate it,
>Scott.
>
>
