Hi Charles,
On 27 Oct 2004 at 13:49, Charles Pond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke, thus:
> Is there a developers' kit in the works for writing applications for the
> BrailleNote?
We have PulseData's unguaranteed promise of an SDK, and have done so for
quite some time now. However, allowing for the significant work PulseData
has been doing of late, and accounting for recent and more firm assertions
of an SDK to come, it is fair to expect this SDK to appear some time after
the major platform changes they are undertaking are made satisfactorily
and their platform exhibits the less serious of the resultant flees that
inevitably seem to follow. Therefore, if you are a developer, I suggest
you keep your ear to the ground for announcements from PulseData on the
matter. I certainly will.
> Could a standard Windows-CE (or whatever the op-sys is for the
> BrailleNote) developers' package work if the calls for the speech and
> Braille display were supplied from Pulse Data?
For the current version of Windows CE (version 2.12), the SDK is not
standard - it is built per platform by the manufacturer of the Windows CE
device. You can fetch the current Windows CE SDK from PulseData as part
of the XBase source code from the download section. Future versions of
Windows CE above version 3.0 do use standard SDKs downloadable direct from
Microsoft, however, so any developer can develop an application that will
run on the BrailleNote when upgraded. However, such an application will
not be of significant use to you or us since, as you say, API procedures
for accessing various KeySoft elements would be necessary; presumably
these would include braille line draw routines, translation routines,
speech output, prompt and menu creation, and so on (at least, it should,
since these are all examples of reusable code and consistency).
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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