Re: Some broad questions

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How big the buttons are is an application question. As you see from my
other reply, *you* are obviously going to write the application software, so
you can choose how much of the screen area is taken up by each button.

This is *not* going to be a bare-bones CE device. You're using real-time
streaming media over wireless. That in itself should indicate to you that
you are going to be building a media device, essentially, that has a few
random peripherals, like touchscreen and proximity sensor.

Paul T.

"Robby" <Robby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sorry Paul I also forgot to tell you the following...

Speed is very crusial for this app., so I am not looking to
program on the Pocket PC shell, I would rather be bare bones C on WCE. The
users don't have the luxury of always carrying a stylus with them to tap
in
small areas of the screen. Buttons will be large ex: 1.5" x 1.5" and so
forth....

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Best regards
Robert


"Robby" wrote:

Hi Paul!

Firs and fore-most, thankyou for your post.

My project consists of several points in a commercial plant where each
point
is an embeded board running WCE. Each point must be able to talk to each
other using the WIFI medium. Also, each point must have a 4" inch touch
screen display and a small camera so that the users at each point can
visually see each other.(Meaning say, at the top left corner you can see
onother user at another remote point located within the same building.
And
where the rest of the screen would be buttons or list box controls and so
forth....)

Furthermore, only if the user is in the proximity of his point (Say 2 ft
or
closer to the embeded board), then the other points are informed that
there
is a user present at that point.

I can go on.... however I think you get the idea.

I am not expecting to find a vendor to sell me a reference board with a
camera and the motion detector and IOs..... I can do that stuff using a
USB
port on the refernce board and connect some of my own interface
electronic
boards or a USB camera.

But I don't know where exactly to start or where I can buy a board that
would suit this application. Also, will WCE have all the drivers to do
this
through eVC++ or Visual studio.

Let me know if you want more detail....

Your time is much appreciated!

Thankyou!

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Best regards
Robert


"Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" wrote:

It sounds to me like what you want is a board that already runs Windows
CE
and which you can use to write *applications* for, not something for
which
you want to configure and install a custom version of the operating
system.
If that's the case, depending on which version of Windows CE the target
hardware runs, you may or may not be able to use VS2005 to write code
for
it.

If you can clarify what exactly you're trying to do, we might be able
to
point you to one or a few sources of hardware that would work for you.
Is
this a school project or what? If so, what are you supposed to do in
the
project? If not, what's the job you are working on?

A nice cheap platform for software development of applications is a
Pocket
PC. If you buy a new one, it runs a customized version of Windows CE
5.0
with some other applications, called Windows Mobile 5. For that, you
can
use VS2005 for development and C/C++, C#, or VB.NET.

Paul T.

"Robby" <Robby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I am a little discouraged and confused.

I am a <newbie> in the embeded world. I have been programming in C
using
the
WIN32 environment within the VC++ IDE. I eventually wish to program
an
embeded application using a reference board which can support a WCE
image.

I will probably go with Visual studio 5 and the platform builder
along
with
the WCE OS. I am planning to program with native languages such as
C/C++
with WIN32.

I have recently downloaded the trial version of Embeded WCE from the
microsoft site, and it installed WCE components and platform builder.
I
have
not started to explore it though.

*QUESTIONS*

Q1-Can someone suggest me a vendor that can sell me a reference board
that
would complement the programming tools I currently have. (Visual
studio/EVC++)

Q2-What is exactly an SDK?

Q3-I have watched Mike Halls video at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wceintro5/html/wce50tutplatformbuildertutorials.asp

I viewed the last tutorial which is on WCE and he says a phrase I
don't
quite understand. If you wish to view it, the phrase starts at 2
minutes
and
52 seconds of the video. Here is the phrase:

"The operating system its self is abstracted away from the in line
hardware
so in effect the components you choose from the WCE catalogue are
layered
on
top of the appropriate BSP at build time."

I don't know what a BSP is and what does he mean by this phrase?

Q4-When vendors sell their reference boards, do they also sell you
their
version of programming tools which replaces "Visual stidio/EVC++".
Also do
they sell you their version of platform builder?

In other words, can I just buy the board that they sell and use
Microsoft
programming tools to create my application?

Q5-How would I know if WCE would have all the libraries neccessary
for
what
I want to do, ex: Play music, video and WIFI and hwo does the
reference
board
relate to these hardware capabilities?

Thanking you in advance for your time!

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Best regards
Robert





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