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Re: Windows CE
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 26 May 1999 20:25:10 GMT
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Stalker-Wilde, Graham <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message
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> sorry folks, the activeX control is intel x86 specific, it would need to • be
> cross compiled for whatever processor your CE device uses.
oops...you're right of course!
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> You're right, unfortunately, about the IR port. It's hard to get low • enough
> level access to it. (There've been endless discussions about writing a
> universal remote for CE, even that has proved impractical.)
yeah...as I understand it that's due to the carrier based model used in IR
remotes? and that this is why it's trivial to do IR control with a palm
pilot (and also why the palm pilot can't speak irda)...
> As for carrying around a CE device, nice idea, but if your going that far
> why not just write an embedded CE robot?
Now that's not a bad idea! :-) The price point would be a bit much
though... it certainly would earn alot of cool points in my book though....
:-)
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| (...) This has been discussed here before. The Palm Pilot _does_ do irda and it is not "trivial" to do IR control with it. It is possible to simulate remote control IR with irda and that's what the OmniRemote software does. What I want is a library (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| sorry folks, the activeX control is intel x86 specific, it would need to be cross compiled for whatever processor your CE device uses. You're right, unfortunately, about the IR port. It's hard to get low enough level access to it. (There've been (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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