Need help developing a Palm IR program...

[h***@gmail.com]

Greetings,

I am interested in writing a universal Palm program (if there can be
such a thing as "universal") for a product called Hokey Spokes.
(www.hokeyspokes.com)
The inventor of Hokey Spokes had a Palm IV program which could be used
to enter up to 16 characters of text using the Palm's IR feature.
Unfortunately I don't have the source code and the inventor may not
have it either. The problem is that it does not work with newer Palm
Pilots, hence the desire to find a program that does.
Hokey Spokes communicate at 38kH... How would I go about writing a
program that would use the IR feature on the Palm, with the IR feature
on Hokey Spokes?
Any books, programs, etc., I should know about?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Rich

[John]

Post by h***@gmail.com
Greetings,
I am interested in writing a universal Palm program (if there can be
such a thing as "universal") for a product called Hokey Spokes.
(www.hokeyspokes.com)
The inventor of Hokey Spokes had a Palm IV program which could be used
to enter up to 16 characters of text using the Palm's IR feature.
Unfortunately I don't have the source code and the inventor may not
have it either. The problem is that it does not work with newer Palm
Pilots, hence the desire to find a program that does.
Hokey Spokes communicate at 38kH... How would I go about writing a
program that would use the IR feature on the Palm, with the IR feature
on Hokey Spokes?
Any books, programs, etc., I should know about?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Rich

Older Palms (III, V) could use Simple IR (SIR) mode. Many of the
newer Palms can only use IRDA. SIR can be "tweaked" to do many things
that can't be done with IRDA.

I wrote most of the Palm-side code for an application that uses SIR to
configureand extract data from a traffic control device.

If you have the specs for communicating with the HokeySpokes, I might
be able to recreate your program.

John

Samples of my Palm software (most with source):
http://www.wizardanswers.com/software/nsbsource.html
nsb theobvious at wizardanswers.com
Fix the obvious to email me.