Various Findings

[alfcen]

1. By accident I sized an icon 32 x 24 and assigned it to an application in
the IDE. Upon compilation, the IDE crashes unless you use a proper 32x32
icon. The Windows error message may look better in a Basic4ppc error
message which could also prevent the IDE from crashing.

2. Version 5.8 creates the "myapp.exe.config" file automatically, which is
very convenient but is limited to frameworks 1 and 2.
Will framework 3.5 be added next time?

3. There is no Stop command for Sound("music.wav"). On the device,
playback stops as you tap on a disabled control, say an Image Button, or
upon menu selection. FMOD plays WAVs as well but at the expense of a heavy third party library. A playback loop flag would also be nice for the
Sound command, such as Sound("music.wav", True) as would be a modal flag.

4. Could the GPS.DLL be modified to add HDOP and quality values?
They are in the same $GPGGA sentence

 

[Erel]

Good points.
1) Will be fixed.
2) Next version will probably target .Net 2.0 by default.
Therefore the config file will no longer be required.
There will be an option to target .Net 1.0 as well.
3) I'm not sure if this is possible, but I'll check it.
4) I'll check it too.

 

[alfcen]

Hi Erel,

Thanks so much for addressing the issues.

Regarding HDOP and quality, for the time being, I am currently working around like this:

Sub GPSGetHDOP(gga)
  'jump from GPS_GPSDecoded event
  'gga is the serial.InputString
  'reference = "$GPGGA,161229.487,3723.2475,N,12158.3416,W,1,07,1.0,9.0,M,,,,0000*18"
  ErrorLabel(HDOPErr)
  Dim r1, r2
  r1 = StrIndexOf(gga,"$GPGGA",0)
  r2 = StrIndexOf(gga, "*", r1 + 6)
  If r1 <> -1 AND r2 <> -1 Then
    gga=SubString(gga,r1,r2-r1)
    data() = StrSplit(gga, ",")
    hdopval = data(8)
    quality = posfix(data(6))
  End If
HDOPErr:
End Sub

  'posfix(0)="Not fixed"
  'posfix(1)="GPS SPS"
  'posfix(2)="DGPS SPS"
  'posfix(3)="DGPS PPS"

Cheers
Robert