> Years ago, (could be decades now) I sent my postcard to France and tried to use ICS.
Actually you sent your postcard to Belgium :-) > none of my clients care or expressly do not want their application running on a tablet or phone. I started to port TWSocket to Android, thinking that some of my client would want some stuff ported to a tablet or a smartphone. None asked that. ICS has always been a "side effect" of my own business. I never had and won't probably never have no money to develop ICS as a product. This means I will delay ICS for Android until I get a business large enough to fund ICS for Android without impairing the business budget too much... Today I hope that IoT will open the business in which ICS would find a better place. IoT is full of communication so ICS should have his place. -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS) http://www.overbyte.be -----Message d'origine----- De : TWSocket [mailto:twsocket-boun...@lists.elists.org] De la part de John Dammeyer Envoyé : lundi 28 mars 2016 07:05 À : 'ICS support mailing' Objet : Re: [twsocket] Android version of ICS? I must admit I'm a little confused and not just about ICS. Years ago, (could be decades now) I sent my postcard to France and tried to use ICS. Yet over the years my Delphi projects tend to be menu's and buttons that interface through USB Serial or CAN bus with 8 bit characters or bytes. Even now when I need to update an old project I have to go through the headache of changing chars and strings. I've stopped at XE7. A valiant effort in hopes to be able to perhaps write a program that was transferable to ipads or iphones or androids. Alas, I'm still just writing windows programs and none of my clients care or expressly do not want their application running on a tablet or phone. I do have an application that sends out DMX512A light show UDP packets using IdUDPClient. I don't even remember why I used that library. Why would I use ICS instead? Yet, the IoT is interesting. A simple application that interacts with my new Raspberry Pi or Beagle Bone Black with Wifi dongle is appealing. One that is portable so my iPhone or Windows Laptop can send a message to the Beagle to control a couple of outputs to turn on lights or send CAN message to my network of surplus Olympic Rings lights. So where would I start? Why would I use the twsocket family now? Thanks John Dammeyer > -----Original Message----- > From: TWSocket [mailto:twsocket-boun...@lists.elists.org] On Behalf Of > Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd > Sent: March-27-16 10:51 AM > To: twsocket@lists.elists.org > Subject: Re: [twsocket] Android version of ICS? > > > > I know you guys are probably very busy, but I need to ask. > > Is there any progress in an android version of ICS? > > I'm fully into Firemonkey making an Android App but the Indy > > component is very difficult to work with (for me anyway) Would it be > > possible to give an update on the status (if any?) > > Sorry, there is no Android progress. > > No-one has volunteered the hundreds of hours it would take, no-one has > offered to pay for the development needed. We did ask Embarcadero but > they seem content with Indy (which I assume they make a financial > contribution towards). > > The only positive news is the latest Delphi roadmap mentions the next > release 10.1 Big Ben will include 8-bit UTF8 strings in mobile, where > currently ICS would need it's own 8-bit implementation (which was > started). This will simplify sharing code between platforms. > > Angus > > > > -- > To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list > please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket > Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
