CSE 497B : Handson Handhelds

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CSE 497B Hands-on Handhelds

• Instructors
• Dr. Anand Sivasubramaniam (anand_at_cse.psu.edu)
• Dr. Mahmut Kandemir (kandemir_at_cse.psu.edu)
• Teaching Assistant
• Partho Nath (nath_at_cse.psu.edu)

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Course Information

• Access online at http//www.cse.psu.edu/anand/497
  b/index.html
• Lectures 1100-1215 M in 302 Pond
• Lab Sessions 1100-1215 W in 127 Hammond

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Course requirement outline

• Hardware requirements
• Compaq (HP?) iPAQ 3975 Pocket PC. (Other vendors
  like Casio, Symbol permitted)
• Serial/USB docking cradles AC power
  rechargeable battery pack
• PC Card Expansion jackets (must be able to
  accommodate PCMCIA wireless cards)
• PCMCIA Wireless Ethernet cards

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• Software requirements
• Desktop PC running Windows 98, 2000, XP, Linux.
• Microsoft Embedded Visual Tools (Embedded Visual
  C, Embedded Visual Basic).
• Pocket PC 2002 SDK
• Includes Pocket PC 2002 device emulator

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Lab outline

• PART-1 (Windows-based desktops)
• Familiarizing with the iPAQ Pocket PC device.
• Setting up Windows CE.
• Embedded Visual Tools (eVC/eVB).
• Pocket PC 2002 SDK/device emulator.
• Microsoft Foundation Classes and Visual C.
• Windows CE GUI.
• .NET framework for deploying applications.
• Wireless networking with Windows CE.

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• PART-2 (Linux/Windows-based desktops)
• Setting up Linux.
• Configuring gcc (cross-compiler), program
  development.
• Familiarizing with Java, development tools.
• Wireless networking with Linux.

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Course Projects

• Project-1 Due Feb 17.
• Address book Application.
• Project-2 Due Mar 3.
• Tetris Application.
• Project-3 Due Mar 24.
• Pager/Chat Application.
• Project-4 Due Apr 28.
• Final project is left for your group to decide.

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Lab Policies

• Office hours and grading policies will be
  announced by the TA shortly.
• Please keep checking the website for further
  announcements.
• Additional lab sessions can be scheduled with the
  TA.

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Pocket PC

• Windows powered mobile devices
• Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, Smartphone,
  and Handheld PC.
• For more information check
• http//www.microsoft.com/mobile/pocketpc/default.a
  sp.
• Pocket PC developer information check
• http//www.microsoft.com/mobile/developer.

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Pocket PC Device Emulation

• Behaves like a physical device.
• Complete hardware virtual machine.
• Uses TCP/IP (default) as the transport protocol
  to communicate with the host.
• Visit
• http//msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url
  /library/en-us/dnppc2k2/html/ppc_gapps.asp for
  more details.
• Facilitates debugging.

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Creating a simple application in eVCwith
Microsoft Foundation Classes

• Start EVC by clicking the Start button on your
  desktop. Then select Programs.
• Select Microsoft eMbedded Visual Tools and then
  select eMbedded Visual C 3.0.
• From the menu bar, select File, and then select
  New.
• From the Projects tab, select WCE Pocket PC MFC
  AppWizard (.EXE).
• Type DebugSample (or any name you choose) in
  the Project Name edit box.
• Make sure that all target CPUs you want to
  support are checked in the CPUs list, especially
  the Win32 (WCE x86em) item, as shown in Figure 1.
  
• Click OK.
• For the sake of this example, leave everything at
  the default settings.
• Click FINISH, and then click OK to create the
  project.

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Hello World in eVC.

• Start eMbedded Visual C.
• Select New under File.
• In the dialog box select WCE Pocket PC
  Application and enter the project name
  Helloworld. As soon as you click OK, the WCE
  Pocket PC Application wizard will start.
• When the wizard asks you what kind of application
  you would like to create, select a typical Hello
  world application.
• Tap Finish. The wizard will summarize what it's
  going to do. As soon as you acknowledge the
  summary by tapping OK, the wizard generates the
  sources for your first Hello World application.
• Make sure that Win32 (WCE x86em) Debug and Pocket
  PC Emulation are selected in the Windows CE
  Configuration toolbar.
• Now tap the Rebuild All button to create your new
  application. The eMbedded Visual C software
  will now compile your application and download it
  to the Pocket PC desktop emulator.
• Finally, tap the Debug button, and you should see
  your first Hello World application in the
  Emulator window.

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Helpful/Useful links

• C\Windows CE Tools\htmlhelp\pocketpc
• PPC2.chm Platform SDK for PocketPC some
  developer help
• PPC2ADOC.chm ADOCE help file
• PPC2OD.chm OLE DB SDK for Windows CE
• PPC2SDKR.chm Pocket PC API Reference