DirectShow sample camera test application source code resides in the ($(WINCEROOT)\PRIVATE\TEST\MULTIMEDIA\DIRECTX\DSHOW\CAMERA) directory of the WINCE 6.0 installation.
The CameraFramework source present on the private code supports functions which can be used to develop full functional Directshow camera application.
Many of them were asking about the how to switch between the supported resolutions of the PINS in the [...]

GetStreamCaps, SetFormat, Wince 6.0, Windows CE

A recently invoked query on the MSDN news group for Windows CE has induced me to script this post. Most of our WinCE guys might be aware of creating a shortcut for a file. Now a simple question - Is it possible to create a short-cut to each and every individual control panel application? The [...]

WinCE shortcuts, Windows CE

Recently, e-con Systems announced its brand new e-CAM32_OMAP_GSTIX camera board and its support for Gumstix Overo series of computer on modules.

In the above video you can see how e-CAM32_OMAP_GSTIX Camera board is interfaced with Gumstix Overo Module mounted on Gumstix-Palo43 Expansion Board. This Video also gives a short demo on the most important camera features [...]

OMAP Camera Module

When we were working on the Regulus - Evaluation Board, we faced a peculiar problem on Regulus - Evaluation Board, we faced a peculiar problem on Activesync and this is about the Activesync connection that fails after multiple system reboots.
What exactly is the Connection failure? This means that we can detect the USB sync device [...]

Activesync, Windows CE

Changing the system state can be as simple as a cup of tea! by calling SetSystemPowerstate() API. But not all power states can be allowed to set through this API in the default cases. For example setting to “SystemIdle” using this API will be failed.
There are some use cases, we may need to set “systemIdle” [...]

WinCE BSP, Windows CE, Windows CE Power Manager

There are some cases where we may need to develop a DLL or application to show the images on the devices. For example, an Image viewer will be needed to show the picture after taking a snap shot from the camera using a direct show camera application. Windows Mobile supports the image [...]

Windows CE camera, Windows Mobile camera

There are certain use cases - we may have to handle the non-standard custom interface to communicate between the processor and the hardware. An example is controlling the brightness of an LCD. The brightness controller is interfaced with the processor in a single GPIO pin. Communication will happen by just toggling the GPIO at a [...]

Windows CE, Windows CE BSP, Windows Mobile

Introduction:

I am just bringing the BLDR size issues we faced when we tried to add more functionalities to the X86 bootloader (BLDR).

As per the current X86 bootloader designs in Windows CE, we can only build the BIOS boot loader of size 20 KB, which was overlapped when we add some additional functionality to the bootloader.

Size [...]

Bootloader, Windows CE

Simple method to invoke the software keyboard panel when edit box or other controls clicked
(i)BOOL SHInitExtraControls(void);
The above function has to be called before creating the dialog box, in which we need to invoke the software input panel. Call this only once.
(ii)#define WC_SIPPREF L”SIPPREF”
Declare the above definition in resource file
(iii) CONTROL  “”,-1,WC_SIPPREF, NOT WS_VISIBLE,-10,-10,5,5
This has to [...]

Windows CE

When you implement a web server on Windows CE, developers would want to implement most of the features available with web servers on PC platforms.
However, this is not the case if the windows CE IIS doesn’t support some of the features like maintaining the session ID etc. Also, you would want to get some [...]

Webserver Windows CE, Windows CE