A guide to converting CE to SmartPhone?

[Guest yatpeak]

Could someone please make/link to a guide to converting winCE apps to SmartPhone?

Thanks,

Wyatt

[Guest spacemonkey]

it's not really a simple guid type process... (you definitely need to know something about programming)

anyway...

First, get the source of the CE program.

Load it in eVC++

compile it and try to run it.

if you get any errors and it doesn't compile, investigate these, look stuff up in the help and fix them

once compiled, try running it on your phone.

Look at what doesn't work. If the graphics are all messed up, try and find the graphics routine and look for resolution and such like issues. If graphics seem ok but you can't control anything, try and find the input routine (CE uses WM_PAINT messages for stylus input, you'll definitely want to figure out some key method to replace these).

That's about as good a guid as I can do... it's gonna be on an application by application basis and it's gonna depend on how clean/standards compliant the source code is.

No, easy guide, but it's not an easy task necessarily. Best bet is to find something that interests you, get the source code, and get you hands dirty.

Easy cheats include, if they are using dialogue boxes to load a file and you don't want to have to write a dialogue box immediately, hard code a file name into the app and comment out the dialogue box call. The key is get the app to start "running" and producing some output on screen with the absolute minimum coding. You don't want to spend 3 days getting your load dialogue to work perfectly just to find that following that the program just hangs and crashes...