New (minor) release of CEBoard

[Alainza]

Hi,

I have updated CEBoard to support correctly WM 5.0 VGA Devices such as the Dell Axim X51v and WM 6.0 devices.

best regards,

Alain

[Wardy]

Thanks Alain, though on my X51v each of the piece sets now appears to have a red halo or outline around every piece? I certainly don't remember this before?

I am still unable to connect my DGT Board via my Ratoc usb adapter too

Kind regards

Paul

[Alainza]

Hi Paul,

Thanks Alain, though on my X51v each of the piece sets now appears to have a red halo or outline around every piece? I certainly don't remember this before?

yes, I have to improve the bitmaps : CEBoard did not display well the file list on VGA WM 5.0 devices and it was linked to the fact it was not running in VGA mode but still with 240x320 resolution. The only way to workaround the file list problem is to run natively with VGA resolution, and I have just resized the bitmaps with mspaint.exe...

So I have two solutions : resize the bitmaps with code and hopefully it could have the same rendering than before, or make beautiful vga bitmaps...

I am still unable to connect my DGT Board via my Ratoc usb adapter too

yes, it is no surprise as I did not touch this part of CEBoard. I still don't know why it does not work but I don't have the hardware to test it and debug it myself...

best regards,
Alain

[Wardy]

...... or make beautiful vga bitmaps...

Calling Mr Whitby!!!!!!

Would it help if I mailed you the Ratoc card for testing? Or is it that you don't have a PPC anymore?

Best regards

Paul

[Alainza]

Hi Paul,

...... or make beautiful vga bitmaps...

Calling Mr Whitby!!!!!!

OK, download the new release (CEBoard20.2.1.1347.2.arm.CAB) : the bitmaps don't have the red halo anymore but of course, they are simple bitmaps x2.

Would it help if I mailed you the Ratoc card for testing? Or is it that you don't have a PPC anymore?

thanks for the proposal but it would not help : I still have a pocket pc but I have a serial DGT board.

best regards,
Alain

[Wardy]

Thanks Alain!

In theory wouldn't a simple usb-serial adapter work between the Ratoc card and your serial DGT board?

[Alainza]

In theory wouldn't a simple usb-serial adapter work between the Ratoc card and your serial DGT board?

may be... but most likely it would simply not work at all, and I would not know why

I'll try to find a test program I wrote when I developped the DGT interface and send it to you, may be it will help us understand why it does not work with the USB card.

best regards,
Alain

[pedrox]

Hi Alain,

1) I cannot install Fruit 2.1, seems a problem with the language because it does not find the folder of programs. (Fruit 2.3.1 and anothers OK).

2) I want to connect CEboard by means of bluetooth with Arena, the problem is that the port series bluetooth created in the PC is very high (COM9) and then I cannot select it in Arena, I believe that there will be more people with this problem.

Solution:
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In order to do this, you creates a file with extension .bat and copies following script inside

@echo off
Seth devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
CD %SystemRoot% \ system32
start devmgmt.msc

Later executes the file bat, it will open the administration console, in the menu view, marks the option to see hidden devices and now you would
can eliminate ports COM until you leave free ports below which you need.

Pedro

[pedrox]

@echo off
set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
cd %SystemRoot%\system32
start devmgmt.msc

Sorry

Pedro

[Alainza]

Hi Pedro,

1) I cannot install Fruit 2.1, seems a problem with the language because it does not find the folder of programs. (Fruit 2.3.1 and anothers OK).

yes, I don't know why Fruit 2.1 has this problem on some devices (the detection of CEBoard is the same for all engines, other engines install fine everywhere and Fruit 2.1 installs also without problems on most devices !!!).
If you really want it : open the cab manually and find this file and rename it :
0Fruit21.001 => Fruit21.dll
then, create a Fruit21 folder under <ceboard's folder>\Engines and copy this dll there.
Then Fruit 2.1 will be recognized by CEBoard, and you will be able to set with CEBoard the path to a book file.

best regards,
Alain