Re: [PythonCE] reading GPS?
Alex Mandel wrote: Justin Mitchell wrote: Alex Mandel wrote: Justin Mitchell wrote: Any suggestions on where to get started on reading GPS coordinates? Would these be read through the serial interface? I have a Motorola Q9C Smartphone. Justin Yes, do a search through the history of this list for ceserial to get the python wrapper around the com ports. I'm actually working on a GPS tool based on this. I have a sample tool that logs anything over com port and specifically is aimed at parsing NMEA with a tcl/tk interface right now. Ideally I just need to contact the ceserial author since the license is unclear and see about where we should post this stuff. Maybe a new sourceforge project? Let me know if you need some examples, Alex Examples would be excellent! Justin I don't have my full svn of my project moved to a public website yet (actually only have the last checkout right now) but I can show you the example I used to figure out how to deal with the gps. This should get you started. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.windows-ce/1631/match=ceserial More to come later I'm sure, Alex Thanks! I've been fooling around with that code, and am getting an exception in this function in ceserial.py: def getCommTimeouts(self): """Get the comm timeouts.""" timeouts = COMMTIMEOUTS() if not(windll.coredll.GetCommTimeouts(self.__handle,byref(timeouts))): raise SerialException, windll.coredll.GetLastError() return timeouts windll.coredll.GetLastError() print's "0", which isn't of much help! I'm not too familiar with the win32api. What is the proper way to print error messages? I googled it, and found one other person who ran into the same problem, but did not resolve it. I've looked through the MSDN docs, and the ceserial source, but I'm stuck. Any ideas? Thanks again, Justin ___ PythonCE mailing list PythonCE@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce
Re: [PythonCE] reading GPS?
Christopher Fairbairn wrote: Hi Justin, On Wed 9/07/08 11:47 , Justin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Any suggestions on where to get started on reading GPS coordinates? Would these be read through the serial interface? I have a Motorola Q9C Smartphone. One approach (if you don't mind being Windows Mobile dependant) is to use ctypes to interface to the GPS Intermediate Driver (documented on MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms850332.aspx). This approach would take care of NEMA sentance parsing etc and give you a structure with current lat/long and speed etc. Alternatively you can also go the serial port route. In that case you can use the GPS control panel applet to determine which COM port you should read from. See http://blogs.conchango.com/kenibarwick/archive/2006/03/19/3119.aspx for more details. Hope this helps, Christopher Fairbairn Microsoft MVP - Device Application Development http://www.christec.co.nz/blog/ Thanks for the info. I think the serial approach would suit me better. However... I don't think the GPS control panel exists on my phone (there was no GPS Settings registry key). I wonder if MS removed it in WM 6.1. Do you know if these settings can be specified manually? Thanks! Justin ___ PythonCE mailing list PythonCE@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce
Re: [PythonCE] reading GPS?
Alex Mandel wrote: Justin Mitchell wrote: Any suggestions on where to get started on reading GPS coordinates? Would these be read through the serial interface? I have a Motorola Q9C Smartphone. Justin Yes, do a search through the history of this list for ceserial to get the python wrapper around the com ports. I'm actually working on a GPS tool based on this. I have a sample tool that logs anything over com port and specifically is aimed at parsing NMEA with a tcl/tk interface right now. Ideally I just need to contact the ceserial author since the license is unclear and see about where we should post this stuff. Maybe a new sourceforge project? Let me know if you need some examples, Alex Examples would be excellent! Justin ___ PythonCE mailing list PythonCE@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce
[PythonCE] reading GPS?
Any suggestions on where to get started on reading GPS coordinates? Would these be read through the serial interface? I have a Motorola Q9C Smartphone. Justin ___ PythonCE mailing list PythonCE@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce
Re: [PythonCE] PPyGui SVN & PPyGui-win32
Alexandre Delattre wrote: > Very nice! Will this work with WM5/WM6 Smartphones? I see that the > installer will not run, however I wonder if it can be installed manually. > -Justin Currently some widgets are not usable on non-touchscreen smartphones, which from what I heard will make impossible to go through the installer. However, while waiting for a better solution, you can copy the ppygui/ dir from the archive or svn to your \Program Files\Python25\Lib\ dir, and you'll be able to write some little apps that use only simpelest widgets. Regards, Alexandre Works great! I've only tried Button, Label, Edit, but so far almost everything I've tried works. A couple things though. Is there any way to have two buttons on the bottom? As it is I can only use one button (on the left) and one menu (on the right). Or is there a way to change the text of the button after it has been displayed? When printing times, is there any way to print the milliseconds? They do not show up when printing datetime.now() or time.time(). Milliseconds are displayed in PPyGui, but not on the smartphone. Also, I don't believe focus() works on widgets. It works in PPyGui, but not on the phone. Thanks! Justin ___ PythonCE mailing list PythonCE@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce
Re: [PythonCE] PPyGui SVN & PPyGui-win32
Very nice! Will this work with WM5/WM6 Smartphones? I see that the installer will not run, however I wonder if it can be installed manually. -Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm pleased to announce that PocketPyGui development is now kindly hosted by Mirko "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; Vogt :) The svn repository host the latest version of PPygui as well as 3rd party apps and tools not published yet. You can check it out by typing: svn co https://svn.nanl.de/svn/ppygui/ and use "anonymous"/"anonymous" as user/password. Especially, the repository contain the first version of the native PPygui win32 implementation, which allow you to test and debug your PPygui apps directly from desktop Windows or with Linux through Wine. As PPygui for win32 reuse 90 % of the wince implementation, this gives a fairly coherent and compatible environment for mobile apps development. It is likely your existing apps will work out of the box, as it did for almost all of mine. The only thing really missing now is gui.Html control, but it should not be to much hassle to implement it with comtypes and hopefully we can see it ported in a couple of days. With very little effort you'll be able to make regular desktop gui applications, and reuse your components between classic and mobile versions of your app. While PocketPyGui will remain focused on mobile devices, it'll be soon an alternative to create lightweight win32 applications that are easy to write and distribute. As always, any contributions and feedbacks are welcome. Also, if you want to gain developer access to svn, feel free to mail me. Regards, Alexandre ___ PythonCE mailing list PythonCE@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce
