GPSInt - Microsoft GPS Intermediate Driver Interface

[hsandy]

Originally Posted by dennishea

hsandy, do you know if gpsint.dll work with external gps units?

No, it will only work with WM5 and WM6 devices with internal GPS hardware because it depends on the Microsoft GPS Intermediate Driver. If your device has an internal gps, you should already have a file (probably hidden) called gpsapi.dll in the \Windows directory.

[dennishea]

Thanks for the fast reply hsandy. I was hopeing it would. Oh well. Thank you much for input. Have a nice day.

dennishea

[hsandy]

Originally Posted by dennishea

Thanks for the fast reply hsandy. I was hopeing it would. Oh well. Thank you much for input. Have a nice day.

dennishea

For external GPS, you have the excellent Basic4PPC GPS library...

[dennishea]

It by itself doesn't work. I've tried to figure it out and no success. If I use GpsGate software then gps4ppc program functions otherwise no deal. I would rather basic4ppc handled the serial port stuff. I have tried different code samples and haven't gotten any of them to work. Again if I use gpsgate to handle the serial interface then basic4ppc works fine.

[Frank]

Hi,

hsandy said that the library was compiled for non-touchscreen devices.

It is possible for anyone to compile it for WM6 touchscreen devices? This would include the Orbit XDA (HTC Artemis) with its built-in GPS - a machine which is most likely on the widest used WindowsMobile machines with GPS. Then maybe this Serialport-problem could be solved...

I'm available to test.

Thanks,
Frank

[agraham]

Originally Posted by Frank

It is possible for anyone to compile it for WM6 touchscreen devices?

Try this. I've no way of knowing if it will work but it is compiled for .NET 2.0 and WM2003 and later OS.

[derez]

Is there a way to combine the two tools - to open the soft port with the GPSint but to use the methods of GPS.dll library ?

[taximania]

Originally Posted by agraham

Try this. I've no way of knowing if it will work but it is compiled for .NET 2.0 and WM2003 and later OS.

It doesn't work on my WM6.1 Orbit.
It won't load as a Component.

Same error as per other post.
'Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Samples.Location' was not found.

When I get time I will have a further look into this.

TIA Andrew

[Frank]

Same with me: The new compile of the library doesn't work on my XDA Orbit with WM6. If I run it on the desktop on B4PPC, I get an error on line 13 (gpsint.openGPS), that "coredll.dll" was not found.
On the device I get an error "Error loading program: NotSupportedException".

Any idea?

Thanks a lot,
Frank

[taximania]

I've got the code to compile to Dll and run on my WM6 device.

I can 'GPS.Open' and 'GPS.Close' a connection.
If I 'MsgBox(GPS.Opened)' on the device, it returns 'True'.

All the other functions fail

2 hours work and nothing to report