>At 4:20 PM -0500 2002/01/30, George Henne wrote: >>Using the old SerialMgr, we've always been able to switch the serial >>communications to use the IR port by doing >> >>err = SerControl(serRef, serCtlIrDAEnable,0,0); >> >>Some 4.x devices, including the M505, return err as 778 "Not Supported". >>It works OK in POSE. >> >>What's going on? > >You'll probably need to use the SrmControl API for this starting with Palm >OS 4.0 (or is it 3.5... I'd have to check). This is because the old >SerControl API library does not "blindly" pass on all selectors to the >SrmControl API. We'll be retiring the SerControl compatibility layer at >some point soon, since it's becoming more and more difficult to support it >as the serial comms architecture changes, so this might be a good >opportunity to make the switch.
Thanks, Jim. It look we'll have to do that. Will we run into compatibility problems for devices back to 3.0? George Henne NS BASIC Corporation http://www.nsbasic.com -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
