PDA Programming

Matt_Hirst · 22 Feb 2006 at 12:16

Not sure if this should be in here or general hardware - so sorry if in wrong section.

Right I currently have a number of applications that we use on some old Telxon kit - was written in TCAL Telxon's version of Cobol - am looking to move these across to a PDA probably IPAQ.

Now question is what software do these IPAQ's use - sorry for dum question, just if I ask down at the local purple shirted shop they just look dum founded by the question.

Experience wise I've written applications in MSAccess - the PDA's will be talking to these systems but other than that and cobol am limited with programming experience - are there any courses people would reccomend to go on for this?

regards,

Matt

Matt_Hirst · 22 Feb 2006 at 13:06

Pinhead,

Thanx for reply...

Any reccomendations on which PDA to get?????

regards,

Matt

Matt_Hirst · 23 Feb 2006 at 15:11

Thanx guys for your help, really appreciate it.

regards,

Matt

Matt_Hirst · 23 Feb 2006 at 19:14

1ofaKind said:
Hiya,

If your using the old Texlon units what sort of PDA applications are you looking to rewrite? The reason I ask is that there may well be off the shelf solutions or you could use one of the forms builder programs for data capture etc.

Do you need rugged PDA's for real use as they cost a fortune?

It depends how much you want to do aswell. Whilst you have the .NET for CE platforms available to do the development on I've read its a pain using Access on them especially with docking via active sync to import/export data.

No I personally (yet) haven't done any PDA dev (we are using Wifi and emulation to our Legacy Unix app) but if I was doing it on a budget/power ratio I'd look at the Dell Axim as its VGA and high power CPU.

The applications we currently use the Telxon units for are anything from Work Study to cleaning monitoring systems.

With regards cost, the Telxon units were never cheap so cost really isn't an issue. We would like a ruggedish handheld but if the application can be made to run on something as cheap as a couple of hundred quid then if we get a years use out it then we'd just replace it.

With regards development work I am looking to get my hands dirty once more as I miss doing the development work.

Regards,

Matt