Saturday, June 19, 2004
I've had some success getting the Mac to talk to the Forerunner. It turns out that I do have a slightly flaky USB port, which doesn't seem to be a problem with a mouse, but causes trouble with the IOGear serial port adapter I have. Now that it's working a bit better, I've successfully accessed the Forerunner's tracks from both perl and java, but so far not from objective-c. Working with raw bytes is fairly easy in java, not so easy in objective-c or C. Writing objective-c functions to construct the packets needed to talk to the Forerunner is proving to be a pain in the ass.
Of course, once I figure this out, everything else will be a piece of cake. The sick thing is, I know this is EXACTLY like building out QuickTime tracks, atoms, etc. out of handles back in the day, but I've long since forgotten that. The last time I did serious work with QuickTime handles, it was in Java!
Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised that not only is KMFDM putting out a new DVD, but they're in town this week. I sure could use a good show. [ 6/19/2004 01:34:00 AM ] [
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