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I think that this is actually two feature requests (FR) and two bugs (BUG). With some playing around, I was able to get the software remote to run on a 320x240 WM5 SmartPhone. There was some guesswork involved since only part of the configuration screen is displayed. BUG1: Configuration screen does ...

Could the WinCE remotes be updated to support transparent images? The help claims that this is not possible, but according to Doug Boling this capability has been in CE since either version 2.x or 3.0. I believe this is as simple as replacing the normal bitmap function with a transparent bitmap func...

Is there any chance of supporting LIRC style simple infrared tranceivers? These are *very* simple serial hardware interfaces that you can build yourself. The receiver just removes the carrier frequency from the the IR signal and all timing analysis and decoding is done in software. The receiver can ...

I have tried WinCE 4.2 .NET on both the BitsyX from Applied Data and the Sharp Zoom SDK from LogicPD. These would be great as the display is customizable and could be table-top or in-wall. Neither would even start the Software Remote.

Would it be possible to support additional processor types in WinCE? I have access to several embedded systems including WinCE devices. I am specifically interested in support for WinCE 4.2 on ARM9 V4i and Intel XScale PXA255 RISC processors. I can also build a platform with the Compact .NET framewo...

I have a VB script to parse and break apart my serial received data. I have not seen any issues with disk activity or crashes. My script polls the received data every X ms and is always in the running state. It sounds like you are running your script every time you receive new serial data. In my exp...