rapi.deviceshell or rapi.createprocess

[Ian Bone]

I've just downloaded Basic4ppc and taking it for a trial spin and having a few "basic" problems and looking for help.

I'm on the trial license so running from within the IDE.
All I want my little program to do from the Desktop is to connect to my Device, then launch a Pocket Excel File "\My Documents\My Documents\Power.xlsx"
Having browsed the online help for most of my code, I have been told to use rapi.deviceshell(program,file) but this is not a selectable function when I type rapi.
So when I use it, I get the error saying it is an invalid property of rapi.
I see a rapi.CreateProcess(program,file), but when I use it, it complains that there is "No Connected device", but there is.....?

What am I supposed to use?


Sub Globals

End Sub
Public Sub Connect_To_Device

rapi.New1
rapi.Connect2(False)
t=Now
Do Until rapi.Connected

DoEvents
If (Now - t)/cTicksPerSecond>3 Then

Msgbox("Can not get connected")
​

End If
​

Loop
Msgbox("Connected!")
rapi.deviceshell("pxl","\My Documents\My Documents\Power.xlsx")
' rapi.CreateProcess("pxl","\My Documents\My Documents\Power.xlsx")

​

End Sub

Sub App_Start

main.Connect_To_Device
​

End Sub

I have declared "rapi" as an Object of type RAPI. I have included the RAPIDesktop and the OpenNetCF..... Components in the IDE.

Thanks

Ian.



[EDIT]
Confused - I just closed the IDE, undocked my phone, (HTC Touch HD), waited a second or two until Vista 64bit Ultimate detected the device removed, re-docked it, re-launched the IDE, and ran the program with the rapi.CreateProcess("pxl","\My Documents\My Documents\Power.xlsx") and bingo it launched on the device! I then closed Excel on my Phone and re-ran the program and then got the error: "No Connected Device. The requested lookup ley was not found in any active activation contect." But I still got my msgbox("Connected") displayed saying I was connected!?

 

[Erel]

You should only add a reference to RAPIDesktop.dll.
Then add a RAPIDesktop object. It should have the method DeviceShell.

 

[Ian Bone]

You should only add a reference to RAPIDesktop.dll.
Then add a RAPIDesktop object. It should have the method DeviceShell.

....I had declared an object of type RAPI, not RAPIDesktop.....the .DeviceShell is now available. Again, however, I only get one run at it. It lauches Excel, but when I run again, I get an error at the connect: "Value does not fall within the expected range." If I close the IDE and re-open it, it runs once again and then the same error. Close the IDE and re-open and it runs one more time etc...do I need to reset or drop a connection at the end of my program?

Thanks again.

Ian

 

[Erel]

Not sure if it will help, but please try to add Rapi.Dispose before closing the application.
You can use Form_Close event for doing it.

Note that this problem will probably not occur in a compiled application.

 

[Ian Bone]

Not sure if it will help, but please try to add Rapi.Dispose before closing the application.
You can use Form_Close event for doing it.

Note that this problem will probably not occur in a compiled application.

I've tried a rapi.dispose, but still have to close and re-open the IDE for a second run of the program. I assume the IDE is to blame for this.....

Thanks for your help. I'll play for another couple of programs before I decide to continue with it.

Thanks.

Ian.