I have emailed Entrek and they seem to be asleep.
Does anyone else here use Entrek CodeSnitch? If so, have you found a way to use it with Windows Mobile 5, 6, or 6.1 ?
I really need to verify my application doesn't have any memory leaks, etc. And CodeSnitch does a great job of it. But only with Windows Mobile 2003. :/
Thanks.
What's not working? Is it a client connectivity issue?
The older version used PlatMan for a communications layer, which is problematic from a Visual Studio standpoint (which ships with CoreCon), but if you have any tool installed that has Platman (eVC, Platform Builder) then that should still work fine since WinMo 5.x and 6.x are still based on CE 5.0.
I do know that Entrek has a newer version in beta (I have it) so you might try pinging them again. They tend to be pretty busy, but I've always gotten responses (though I know them well and personally, so that might not be any indicator for you).
I also see that they have their phone number posted on their web page. I'd give them a call. I do recall them saying the new version is supposed to address WinMo issues (I rarely use WinMo proper) so it's definitely worth a try.
I've not used CodeSnitch. But I have had success using the Application Verifier Tool to identify my leaks in WM5 and 6.
Getting it up and running can be a bit of a pain. But I find it to be a good tool and the price is right.
Here's a tutorial to get you started.
I've used CodeSnitch on windows mobile 5, 6 and 6.1 devices with no problems.
Make sure you have the v1.4 installed and applied the v1.4 patch which is referenced here.
Like ctackle says, you need an older communications layer called CoreCon. I've also found CETK has CoreCon in it as well and it's not as big as eVC or Platform builder.
You need to setup the device connection settings to use ActiveSync (both transport and startup server), it does not seem to matter what the connection is called so something like Pocket PC will work fine.
The other gotcha I found is that you need to edit the codesnitch and procman shortcuts and add "/targetcpu:armv4i" to the command line arguments for them to work on WM devices.
I have also found them recently to be non-responsive to support emails as well :(
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In my C++ Windows application, my users can plug in their mobile device via USB and my application can transfer specific files to/from the device. For Android devices, I was able to use MTP. But iOS devices have me tripped up (I'm not an iOS user).
Immediately, I saw that MTP wasn't an option as I couldn't view the device's filesystem via Windows Explorer (wasn't expecting that). So now I'm stuck, and confused. Googled like crazy and all I discovered was that other 3rd party programs can do it, but I can't find any documentation or resources as to HOW.
Can someone point me in the right direction? What would I need to do in order to view the filesystem on a connected iOS device? Are there any libraries I may be unaware of that I can't find? I can see that iTunes has the functionality I'm looking for.
Thanks for your time!
Well, it looks like my comment was wrong. There is at least libimobiledevice http://www.libimobiledevice.org/ and https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse that claims to still support access to the iOS device file system and even claims to be cross-platform. I haven't tried it though to verify if those claims are true.
See also https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/MobileDevice_Library for some possible alternatives
I'm developing a PC c++ application running on windows. The application shall communicate with an android phone connected thru USB, using MTP. The idée is to not mount the Storage Card. What I have found is that Windows have something they call WPD (Windows Portable Device ) which supports MTP. It looks pretty ok but it demands WMP11 to be installed. What I wondering:
Is there are any other alternatives libraries you can use?
Do any one have any tips or experience about using WPD?
Are there any "leaner" dependencies you can install instead of WMP11 for xp?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I here provide some answers to my question for the hope that it will help some one else.
Is there any alternatives/leaner libraries?
You can use WIA but that is only used for images. but a part from that I have not found any.
Any tips?
Check out the sample code provided by Microsoft, it is a good start point. I found it be searching for Portable Devices COM API Sample on MSDN
For Services you can check out this sample code. Which I found by googling for WpdServicesApiSample
The WPD api is pretty ok to use.
Not all devices support MTP and some only support part of it. This caused me some problem but the device we used released an update which supported more of MTP
I found the answer about XP-problems from this StackOverflow by pcbbc really helpful. I can also add that we mailed the supplier and asked for a custom .INF file to support XP and they were really helpful and provided us with it. But it took some time before we got it.
I have an application written in QT4, that uses an openGL window. It has been running happily for months. Windows XP, service Pack 3,
Recently I was diddling with my screensaver, and happened to select the 3D text choice. When I previewed it, the QT4 application seg-faulted immediately. When I ran in the debugger,it is crashing in ig4dev32.dll, which is an intel graphics accelerator driver for Open GL.
When I do a similar test on a machine with an NVIDIA card, I (not surprisingly) get no problems.
I'm not really sure whether I'm asking for help, or insight, or whatever--has anybody ever seen it? Google tells me others have seen it happen in gaming applications, but I see no references to developers having it happen to them. Obviously, I can not use that screensaver, but I suspect the problem is "bigger" than that. Ideas?
I would start by reporting this to Intel. No doubt, they will not resolve it by the end of the week, but eventually. In the mean time, I'd also report it to Qt software, so see if they can trouble shoot it as well.
In the mean time, you know the issue and how to resolve it (no OpenGL screensavers). So all you have to do is to inform your customers. The best would be if the application itself could inform the customers, but detecting if a screensaver uses OpenGL or not does not seem feasable.
Perhaps you could do some additional tests. For instance, what happens if your application is run in paralell with, say, Google Earth in OpenGL mode?
I have to program a C/C++ application. I have windows and linux (ubuntu 9.04) in my machine, and can program in both of them (via gcc/code blocks/vim,etc). The problem is that the executable is going to be run in a Unix (not linux) machine (will have access to it in about 20 days).
My Team Leader doesn´t want all of the code to be programmed in linux - unix. So, some of it will have to be developed in windows (and then many prayers will follow so that nothing bad happens).
The best thing i´ve come up with is to program remotely on the server, from windows and linux, so every programmer (only me for the next 2 weeks) is sort of happy.
In windows, I think i´m stuck with putty, but is there any alternative on linux, rather than ssh-vim? .
I read this Remote debugging with Eclipse CDT but it didn´t bring much light on the subject. At least not much hope.
There is another issue. I don´t consider C/C++ to be a portable language. At least for real programs. Sure it compiles, but many issues will arise, even with boost / stl. I haven´t taken a careful look to the code, but still, how wrong a I?
Any tips will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
You could ssh w/ xming for a gui ide/editor that is on the remote machine.
If all the code is one the remote machine and compiled there, don't you have to worry about developers trying to work with the same resources? Also might the machine/network not be able to handle multiple ssh connections if you're using xming?
If you can convince your system administrator to install the libraries (an X server is not required), you can use X forwarding with SSH, which will allow you to execute X apps remotely and have them come up on your local server. If you're using Linux locally, you probably have X running already, and if you are using Windows, you can use the Xming server (with a little configuration to get it to accept remote connections). For debugging, if you need a separate shell, just set another instance of SSH going and perform debugging from another process.
As for portability, it depends on what you are trying to do. If all you want is a simple console-based application, you shouldn't run into any major portability concerns. If you are using more complex code, portability depends heavily on two things. The first is the choice of libraries - sure, you can run applications written for Win32 on Linux with Wine or actually compile them with Winelib, but it's not a pleasant experience. If you choose something more portable like Qt or gtkmm, you'll have a much easier time of things. Likewise for filesystem code - using a library like Boost.Filesystem will make things significantly simpler. The second thing that makes a big difference for portability is to follow the documentation. It's hard to stress this enough - many things that you do incorrectly will have varied results on different platforms, especially if you are using libraries that don't do checks (note: I highly recommend checking code against debug standard libraries for this reason). I once spent nearly a weak tracking down a portability bug that arose because someone didn't read the docs and was passing an invalid parameter.
If you want to use remote desktop like facility try VNC www.realvnc.com
or in case its just a remote login Hummingbird, EXceed could help
You might want to check the wingdb visual studio extension.
Not sure if this will help, but take a peek at sshfs. I haven't had a need to use it myself, but I have read others use it to access remote files and directories via ssh and work on the files locally. I presume you could access your remote home directory via sshfs and then use your local tools to work on the source files. I would very interested in knowing if this works out, so please post back if you give it a shot.
I use No Machine NX, which gives you the entire desktop of the remote machine. It also has a Windows client. I work remotely from home on Fridays, so I'm using it right now. You'll have to install it on the remote machine, and then install a client on your Windows or Linux machine.
I'm a long time Windows developer, and it looks like I'm going to be involved in porting a Windows app to the Mac.
We've decided to use Flex/Air for the gui for both sides, which looks really slick BTW.
My Windows application has a C++ DLL that controls network adapters (wired and wireless). This is written using the standard library and Boost, so most of it should work cross platform.
On the Mac, what IDE/complier do most folks use if they want to write C++? Also, can someone provide a pointer to whatever APIs the Mac has that can control WiFi adapters (associate, scan, disconnect, etc)?
Xcode is the IDE for Mac OS X, you can download the latest version by joining the Apple Developer Connection with a free Online membership.
I don't believe there are any supported APIs for controlling wireless networking adaptors. The closest thing would be the System Configuration framework, but I don't know if it will let you do everything you want.
Also, I would strongly recommend against trying to use Flex/Air for your application's user experience. It may look slick to you on Windows as a Windows developer, but when it comes to providing a full Macintosh user experience such technologies aren't always a great choice.
For one example, I think Air applications don't support the full range of Mac OS X text editing keystrokes. While not all Mac users will use all keystrokes, for those people used to them trying to type in a text field that doesn't handle (say) control-A and control-E to go to the beginning and end of field is like swimming through syrup.
For a new application that needs to be cross-platform, I'd strongly consider building the core logic in C++ while using Cocoa on the Mac and WPF on Windows to get the best user experience on each platform. Both Mac OS X and Windows have modern native user experience technologies that their respective users are getting used to, and also have good ways for C++ code to interoperate with these technologies.
The de-facto OS X IDE and compiler is Xcode. It comes with every Mac, you just install it from the OS X install CD.
Apple's developer site is the place to get more information on OS X APIs
Xcode and a custom GCC I believe...
xcode is the hotness, as people have already pointed out.
Having maintained a windows/mac codebase in the past, take a look at MVC.
So long as you keep the background logic distinct from the UI and from the platform-specific stuff (like file handling, networks, drawing to the screen, etc). That way, when you want to go to Linux in the future, you just have to write those platform specific components.
As for mac networking, are you on the level of connecting and so forth? Why not just let the OS handle that, and then you just see what connections are available? Why bother with whether or not the connection is wired or wireless? Because the OS has a lot of those tools already built in and users are used to making sure that the connection is there to do work, it seems odd to have an extra program to want to manipulate the network.
Xcode is used a lot, as far as I know the combination editor (e.g. Textmate), command line gcc is in fairly heavy use too. (that's what I do on OS X)
For all API needs head to Apple's developer site e.g. the networking API's