Pocket Pc - Game

[XeXo]

Dear Friend,

I am from Spain and I have seen your article about pocket frog on this web page http://www.sundialsoft.freeserve.co.uk/ ... og_Ch1.htm, but I have some questions I hope you can solve...

I have done a dog robot which is able to move itself guided through a program on my PC which has many orders it can recognize (such as walk, rise left leg, rise right left, stop, etc). But now I want to do the same with a Pocket PC (iPAQ)...

I have understanded you can control a graphic movement with the iPAQ buttons, but I would want to know if I can control them with the pen iPAQ, i mean, if I slide the pen among the screen, making a movement, can i control it?

And the other question is... is it possible to include the graphics "game" I will done for the iPAQ in to another application?? I mean, to include it as a window of the application that will be installed on the iPAQ to controll the mechanical dog, which will have the other part (recognize orders, what I have explained yet).

Hoping you could help me in anything you thing could be useful and waiting your soon reply,

Best regards,

Sergio Alcantara Segura
sergio_wap@terra.es

[Johan]

XeXo,

This is the GapiDraw web forum. I have moved your question to the PocketFrog forum where Conan (the author of the article you refer to) visits regularly.

[XeXo]

Which would be the best chance? PocketGL, PocketFrog, GADIDraw or another one? Could you please tell me what you think is the best?

thanks

[Conan]

The PocketPC's including iPaq have touch screens which return information just like pressing a key. You can tell about 'stylus down' 'stylus up' and 'stylus move' events so you can create input commands for your dog either by tapping icons on a control panel or by sensing specific movements like stylus dragged down etc.

It's usual on PocketPCs to have only one window other than pop up alert messages so I'm not sure your window idea will work on the iPaq.

Which toolkit ? Look at GapiDraw & PocketFrog as these are both very good.

[Kzinti]

Check this link:

http://frog.flipcode.com/PocketFrog/docs_framework.html

It contains information about the framework and how the input callback works (stylus, buttons).