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[gooberdlx]

I do .Net mobile development professionally and as a hobby... so for anyone who has questions... please ask away!

[Praetorius]

I'm open for questions too. Between the two of us...we can help!

[mwilkinson4905]

How do you detect when a navigation button on the Q has been pressed. The normal Key events, don't catch the navigation buttons except for the center button which is the same KeyChar as the Enter Key.

[WardXmodem]

OK, I have a BIG question.

I have done "tons" of development, written tens of thousands of lines of "code".

BUT NOTHING LATELY, I don't even "understand" object oriented, and I have NO tools.

Suppose I want to code for the "Q", but also for Windows, with the usual -- is the term "widgets" -- i.e. file/open, radio buttons, check boxes, etc.

I can code non-object-oriented C, have done some Pascal, Rexx, APL, assembler, Cobol, Fortran, Basic, a teeny bit of Java, etc.

So, give me a checklist - preferrably "free stuff" but if I have to shell out a few hundred to Microsoft to get this working, that's OK. Ideally, I'd like to code for Windows, the Q, and portable to Linux should that be the direction I go - i.e. some way to do conditional compilation ...

Thanks!

P.S. if someone wants to take me under their wing, I can pay for the services, too, like if someone is a student, "really broke", etc, and some $$ would help.

I'm also on ICQ / AIM, etc, and even Skype...

Thanks!

Ward Christensen
Inventor of Xmodem & BBSs (which by the way was about 20,000 lines of 8080 assembler)

[daemonenwind]

Originally Posted by WardXmodem

OK, I have a BIG question.

I have done "tons" of development, written tens of thousands of lines of "code".

BUT NOTHING LATELY, I don't even "understand" object oriented, and I have NO tools.

Suppose I want to code for the "Q", but also for Windows, with the usual -- is the term "widgets" -- i.e. file/open, radio buttons, check boxes, etc.

I can code non-object-oriented C, have done some Pascal, Rexx, APL, assembler, Cobol, Fortran, Basic, a teeny bit of Java, etc.

So, give me a checklist - preferrably "free stuff" but if I have to shell out a few hundred to Microsoft to get this working, that's OK. Ideally, I'd like to code for Windows, the Q, and portable to Linux should that be the direction I go - i.e. some way to do conditional compilation ...

Thanks!

P.S. if someone wants to take me under their wing, I can pay for the services, too, like if someone is a student, "really broke", etc, and some $$ would help.

I'm also on ICQ / AIM, etc, and even Skype...

Thanks!

Ward Christensen
Inventor of Xmodem & BBSs (which by the way was about 20,000 lines of 8080 assembler)

The best place to start is here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/default.aspx
Grab a copy of Visual Studio Express, for you probably the C# one. (Yes, they run on linux...under .Net. Your choice if that's good or not, although I'm guessing not)

Then flip over here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/win.../bb264327.aspx

Microsoft has actually always been pretty friendly to developers. So get your MSDN ID (free) and start poking around.

I'm not aware of a raw-code compiler for Mobile 5, although that's not to say it doesn't exist....

[dcarter]

Originally Posted by gooberdlx

I do .Net mobile development professionally and as a hobby... so for anyone who has questions... please ask away!

I hope u can help me, i installed this file Gstart (http://airfagev.com/downloads1.asp?id=128) on my MOto Q, but i removed it using active sync but now it says "can't find 'gStart' (or one of its components)." whenever i hit the start menu, so i cant access anything in the start menu, how can i get around this??

[dcarter]

Originally Posted by Praetorius

I'm open for questions too. Between the two of us...we can help!

I hope u can help me, i installed this file Gstart (http://airfagev.com/downloads1.asp?id=128) on my MOto Q, but i removed it using active sync but now it says "can't find 'gStart' (or one of its components)." whenever i hit the start menu, so i cant access anything in the start menu, how can i get around this??
vbrep_register("47513")

[wayww@optonline.net]

Looking to run Java runtime on my Q. Have had no success in finding anything that works. Any suggestions would be appreciated...

[mjcarman]

Originally Posted by daemonenwind

Grab a copy of Visual Studio Express, for you probably the C# one.

So you can install the WM SDKs with the Express editions? That's good news. I'd been wondering about that but haven't had the time to check it out. (I want to do some hobbyist programming so I'm not keen on shelling out money to buy software so I can write my own. )

Originally Posted by daemonenwind

I'm not aware of a raw-code compiler for Mobile 5, although that's not to say it doesn't exist.

Surely Visual Studio can compile source code!? Or did you just mean that you aren't aware of any standalone compilers that would make it possible to do WM development without VS?

[mjcarman]

Originally Posted by mjcarman

So you can install the WM SDKs with the Express editions?

*sigh* No, you can't. After much downloading and updating, the WM SDK refuses to install. I finally found the following fine print in the prerequisites (emphasis mine):

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Standard Edition or above (Express Editions are not supported).

So... does anyone have any advice for a hobbyist developer who isn't willing to pay Microsoft hundreds of dollars to for the privilege of writing their own software?