[Mapserver-users] Win CE Version

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Dharani,

A lot of points here, but I might a suggest another way of approaching 
this problem. Mapserver has a Swig interface definition that is used to 
build mapscript. It might be possible to build a Swig interface to 
VB.Net or a com object so you would then compile mapserver into a dll or 
whatever that could be called directly from VB.NET.

Then you can avoid all the issues of HTML, browses, etc. You would then 
write an application making calls to mapscript to load the mapfile, and 
generate map images what could be returned either via a tmp file or as 
an image object that you would then display directly to the screen.

You would build your user interface and whole application directly in 
the native WinCE development environment and forget about all the issues 
of webservers, networking, HTML, browses, etc.

Hope this helps,

-Steve

Dharani Babu wrote:

> Hi all
>    I am venturing into trails of using map server components in a win ce 
> based device . I invite and request all of the members to add thier 
> points .
> My Aim is to develope a map server component on a handheld device of 
> like pocket PC . The first phase is to successfully deploy the mapserver 
> exe ( either _36 or _40) at the target device with associated dlls and 
> libs .I hope we will be in need of map server exe version for win ce 
> platform right ? As I am using emualtor I dont face any probs as of now 
> with accessing the mapserver exe but the case may be different when it 
> comes to activesync it to the real device . Third phase --
> There are two possibilties one is that the device being connected to 
> net( tyler this point is to you :)) . In that case from the device the 
> user types like http:<ip>/file.html off they go !!! but the situation is 
> not that simple . Coz the devices wont be connected to net at all . In 
> that case we are in need of 1) passing the hidden variables to the 
> mapserv exe WITHOUT init html 2) retrieving the temporary images created 
> at the /tmp folder and then have to display them without BROWSER . right 
> ? Here is where I am confused lot .. Does the IE retreive the tmp images 
> or the mapserver maps the images to an instance of IE ? I hope the 
> second . So in this case how to change the default behavior of 
> mapserver's association with brower to display the images ? Fourth ..
> How to get the template html work done with out html ? Thats we need to 
> have zoom in /out /pan /query feature etc Which need to be somehow fired 
> without the template html ... And last The mother of all doubts I have 
> is will map server work without apache or IIS ? :)
> I amplanning to start coding next week onwards . Hope I would be having 
> some tons of messages in my inbox after week end ....
> I hope I have opened a wide area of discussion to follow ...I hope to 
> get invaluable suggestions from the members in all ...bye for now
> with regards and thanks in advance
> dharani babu
> NB: The possible platform for mapserver component in win ce will be VB 
> .NETsmart project ...
> 
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