PocketConsole is a software, which provides a console device for Pocket PCs.
Consoles manage input and output (I/O) for character-mode applications (applications that do not provide their own graphical user interface).
Such programs are still wide spread in the Windows and Unix world.
For example, the command shells command.com on Windows 9X/ME and cmd.exe on Windows NT® are character-mode applications.
Also, many of the open source projects from GNU (www.gnu.org) are console based character-mode applications.
Microsoft provides a console for Windows CE HPC (Handheld) computers.
Implemented on those devices is also the Windows CE command shell (CMD). However, no console device is implemented on Pocket PC or Pocket PC 2002 platforms.
This is PocketConsole's raison d'ętre. And moreover, PocketConsole has builtin advanced features from the Windows NT console.
Since PocketConsole is full compatible with Microsofts Windows CE device driver model you can run any character-mode application written for Windows CE Handheld's on your Pocket PC without modification.
On the applications page you can download some character-mode programs which run on PocketConsole.
If you are a Pocket PC software developer, then PocketConsole will simplify porting console mode applications from Windows and Unix to the Pocket PC.
Please visit the developers page for a more detailed description of PocketConsole. There you can also download PortSDK, a software development kit, which assists you in writing charcter-mode applications for PocketConsole.
Features:
- Runs on Windows CE Pocket PC and Pocket PC2002 devices
- Supports SH3, ARM and MIPS processors.
- X86 version for Pocket PC 2002 emulator is available through Port SDK
- Conforms fully to Microsofts Windows CE console device driver model
.. Runs console mode applications written for Windows CE Handheld's
.. Up to 10 consoles can be simultanously open
- Has advanced features from the Windows NT console
.. Color support
.. Unicode support
.. Property pages for customizing color,font,screensize ...
.. Input history buffer
.. QuickEdit mode for copy and paste
- Plug & Play installation
Update Description:
v1.3
- Changed: The PocketConsole menu in order to be more conformant with the PocketPC design guidelines. (You will find the Close button under the Tools menu.)
- Added: QuickEdit button at the command bar.
- Added: On line input you can use the stylus to place the cursor.
- Fixed: the dwControlKeyState member of the INPUT_RECORD structure delivered a bogus value.
v1.2.0.1:
- Fixed: German umlaute did not work properly due to wrong codepage setting.
v1.2:
- Optimized: Speed improvement on console output.
- Optimized: Console close function has been made more robust.
- Removed: History Prev and Next buttons from the command bar. Use the cursor up and down arrows for skimming through the history buffer.
- Added: Insert button on the command bar for rapid changing between insert and overwrite mode.
- Fixed: Discard old duplicates is now working.
- Fixed: WriteConsole function returned the wrong number of Bytes in lpNumberOfCharsWritten.
v1.1:
- Added: SH3 and MIPS versions for legacy Pocket PC devices.
- Added: A PocketConsole control panel for setting default console preferences.
- Added: A control panel switch to activate/deaktivate PocketConsole.
- Added: A "Select All" menu entry, to copy the screenbuffer from upper left to the cursor poition into the clipboard.
- Fixed: Sometimes the screenbuffer did not scroll up properly. Also, occasional screen distortions and whole lock-ups could result.
