Status serial2.dll + HTC + WM6?

[Agrartec]

Since this problem happend to me at first, I want to give a little statement as well.

I don`t wanna blame anybody for this. Windows Mobile is much more individually programmed on the devices as normal Windows, so its impossible to get everything running perfectly.
My problem is as well that GPS-apps written with B4ppc only work with gpsgate on my device. Portsplitter (which is free) doesn`t work. Sadly that this happend as WM6 came up, but on WM5 it worked.

I stopped programming because of this problem. Since several month I take a look in this forum every week to check if somebody found a solution. It makes me a bit sad, because I have a lot of ideas which I would like to program, but it depends on the use of GPS. Visual Studio is too much and too expensive for me. I would like to write some apps and share them with others, but it is no use if I have to help everybody getting the app working or they would have to buy gpsgate.
As soon as this problem is solved, I will buy a new version of B4ppc.

So, please Erel, here are already a lot of people with this problem, do your best to help us. You gave us such a great way to bring our ideas on PPCs and GPS becomes more and more importance.

[Erel]

I promise you all that this issue will be the first one that will be handled after the release of the next version.

[agraham]

Originally Posted by Agrartec

Visual Studio is too much and too expensive for me.

As I tried to point out above ALL the .NET languages suffer this problem as it is a .NET SerialPort class/HTC compatibility problem so Visual Studio would only help you if you could write native code in C++ and so avoid using the SerialPort class.

[wolfgang]

Hi,
I have had the same problem with my HTC 3650 Cruise WM 6.0 Pro but it is solved now with the GPSINT lib from hsandy. The following code runs without any problem on my device.

Sub Globals
	n = 0
End Sub

Sub App_Start
	Form1.Show
	hw.New1
	gpsint.New1
End Sub

Sub gpsint_GPSLocationChanged
	If gpsint.GPSValid = true Then
		n = n + 1
		label2.Text = gpsint.GPSUTCTime
		label6.Text = gpsint.GPSSpeed & " [knots]"
		label4.Text = n
		Else
			label2.Text = "no fix, wait"
	End If
	hw.KeepAlive
End Sub

Sub btstart_Click
	If btstart.Text = "Start" Then
		gpsint.openGPS
		btstart.Text = "Stop"
		Else
			gpsint.closegps
			btstart.Text = "Start"
			n = 0
	End If
End Sub

Sub Form1_Close
	gpsint.closegps
	gpsint.Dispose
End Sub

The only thing I do not understand is that label4.Text = n displays only even numbers ( divided by 2 and everything is o.k.). The next HTC GPS problem is that the STATIC-MODE is turned on, which means that under a speed of 2 knots the speed and heading is frozen.

In case off all this problems I phoned with the German support and the answer was: “We do only support TomTom”.

So take care when you buy a HTC.

[agraham]

Originally Posted by wolfgang

The only thing I do not understand is that label4.Text = n displays only even numbers

You may be getting two LocationChanged events each time and are being re-entered when you update the labels. You can check with some code like this.

ReEntry = false ' in Globals
...
Sub gpsint_GPSLocationChanged
  If Not(ReEntry) Then
      ReEntry = true
      If gpsint.GPSValid = true Then
        n = n + 1
        label2.Text = gpsint.GPSUTCTime
        label6.Text = gpsint.GPSSpeed & " [knots]"
        label4.Text = n
      Else
        label2.Text = "no fix, wait"
      End If
      hw.KeepAlive
      ReEntry = false
  End IF
End Sub

[Erel]

(previous message deleted)

The point is clear to all sides.
This thread is now closed.