Dumb guy needs programming help

[Guest Alex_le_brit]

HI, I came to France a few years back and still haven't learnt all the department numbers (for those who don't know each department, like a county, has it's own number, and this appears on the registration of every car from that dept).

What I'd really like to do is make a simple application which would let me enter the number click ok and display the name.

Even better if it showed the postion on a map of France, but the name on it's own would do.

How would I go about doing this, any ideas?

[Guest muff]

first off you need a full list of department's and position in france

the actual programming should be fairly straight forward

[Guest Alex_le_brit]

first off you need a full list of department's and position in france

the actual programming should be fairly straight forward

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Oh I have both a list and a map so that's no problem. The map is even a gif, so I thought it would probably just be a matter of producing a whole bunch of them each one with one of the departments highlighted/filled in in red.

So what's the next stage?

[Guest muff]

guess it comes down to what language you are familiar with and what phones you are writing it for

but from your description you basically want a text entry field and a button, when the button is pressed it loads the appropriate gif image

[Guest Neildw]

What I will do is write a Mobile Web App. That you can call.

So that the server can do all the logic for you and return only the required info

But that’s just me

[Guest muff]

so you'll write a web app and pay GPRS every time you want to do a lookup ? ;)

[Guest bosshogg]

what device do you have alex_le_brit? if you have a wm2003 device then you can code in c# or vb.net, otherwise I think the only option is c++, is that right muff?

I'm looking for a new c# project, so let me know if I can help...

[Guest Neildw]

What I will do is write a Mobile Web App. That you can call.

So that the server can do all the logic for you and return only the required info

But that’s just me

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well depending on the device.

And space available

If you take all the contacts + Maps

You going to go around +- 1 – 5 Meg

Depending on size of Maps and and.

With the Web app you aren’t just restricted via GRPS you can use Bluetooth / GPRS / Wi-FI / USB

I understand what you mean with the GPRS Rates.

Cheers

Neil

[Guest Alex_le_brit]

Hmm well I'm using an SPV Classic so I guess it's down to c++ although it occurs to me that I could write it as a website and just use HTML. That might work just as well.

You would input the Department number and this would call up a map with the Department name and "capital" on the bottom.

As for the maps and file size. There are 96 departments in France if you count Corsica. To have 95 very small maps screen size 160x160 shouldn't take up that much space surely ?

[Guest extravagant]

wow this is complicated!!

[Guest muff]

the why not write an html page that works on the actual phone, rather than having to do a GPRS connection ?

[Guest Alex_le_brit]

the why not write an html page that works on the actual phone, rather than having to do a GPRS connection ?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That's exactly what I was planning, although I'd rather it didn't have to open PIE to work, but it'll do.

Right off to teach myself HTML and XML now.