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re: "Beaming" over Bluetooth, or... serial?

re: "Beaming" over Bluetooth, or... serial?
Sun, 20 May 2007 19:33:28 -000
Luc Le Blanc wrote: 	
	
> I see that apps like Filez can let you select the transport
> to use for "beaming" (Bluetooth, SMS, IR and other more exotic
> like PrintMe or Versamail). How is this done?

Contrary to my initial belief, the source code for FileZ is public. I see it
prefixes the socket.name with "?_send;_beam:" to pop up a system
dialog asking which transport to use. If I want to explicitely use Bluetooth, my
Palm OS Programming Bible tells me to use "_btobex://?_single/" before
the name. But that doesn't do anything: the data still gets beamed over IR (as
tested on a T3). What's missing?

As for serial, even if I take care of the connection, is there a way to make
ExgPut and ExgSend use the serial link, or can this only work with ExgDBWrite
and a custom write callback proc?


Luc Le Blanc
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