Flash-GPS on Windows Mobile

Question

Hi All --
I would like to develop a location aware Flash application
for Pocket PCs that are equipped with a GPS receiver. I need a way
to read GPS data into Flash. When I inquired about this a year or
two ago, I was advised to look a the documentation regarding the
"Invisible Ideas Project" article in the Macromedia developer
center. The article is about a project that took place in 2002 in
which the developer wrote a C++ gateway application that would read
the GPS data from a device COM port, package it as XML and provide
it to Flash.
Since I am not a C++ developer, I was wondering whether
someone has come up with a driver or utility that would do the same
thing. Better yet, with a brand new version of Flash being
released, I wonder whether Adobe will be integrating this
capability into Flash for the Pocket PC.
One thing that has changed since 2002 is that Windows Mobile
5.0 includes an API call to return GPS data, so the new function
can be called instead of having to open and read data from a COM
port.
So, does anyone know of any new functionality to read GPS
data for Flash? Are there any third-party tools to do this? Would
anybody like to write a GPS driver for Flash on the Pocket PC?
Best Regards,
-- Phil

Answer 1

You could consider using .NET Compact Framework and develop
it in like
C# or Visual Basic. InTheHand.NET comes with a nice Bluetooth
Framework
for both Win32 and Windows Mobile devices.
Only this requires that you have installed Flash Lite or
Player and the
.NET Compact Framework Runtime installed on the device. I.e.
you could
write a projector projector which host the ActiveX control of
the Flash
Player and communicate via fscommand2() or sockets etc.
Or you go the daemon like way...