[Mapserver-users] Win CE Version

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Dharani,

There is no support currently for vb.net. I am suggesting that you look 
at SWIG or the C-API and that you build an interface for vb.net. I can't 
help you much more than this suggestion as I am not familiar with the 
Microsoft development environment. I am guessing that you probably want 
to write a COM/DCOM wrapper to mapserver that you can access via vb.net.

It is unlikely that you can use PHP/Mapscript to do what you want 
without getting very convoluted, but these might give you some examples 
of how to integrate similar calls into vb.net or a COM object.

Sorry, I can't help with SWIG other than to suggest that it might be 
worth looking to see it they have a mode for generating COM objects, in 
which case it might be a useful tool.

There are other on this list that are much more knowledgeable about 
Windows technology, SWIG, mapscript than I am. May be they will jump in 
here and offer their suggestions. ;)

-Steve

Dharani Babu wrote:

> Steve
> Could you tell me
> 1) which version of mapscript( It is PHP mapscript right ?) should be 
> installed
> 2) steps to get SWIG +map server APIs + vb.net working with samples if 
> possible please as I am fully new to SWIG .
> 
> with regards and thanks in advance
> dharani
> 
>> From: Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>
>> To: Dharani Babu <dharanibabus at hotmail.com>
>> CC: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu,  tmitchell at lignum.com,  
>> spatialguru at shaw.ca,  info at peoplegis.com
>> Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Win CE Version
>> Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 09:07:46 -0500
>>
>> 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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