where can I find a complete documentation about PM3/4

Benoit · Post by **Benoit** » July 30th, 2007, 7:58 am

Hy,

I'm french student in computing, and I'm rower too !

I would like to develop an application to communicate and send informations between my pc and my PM3.
I would like to find a good documentation about it. (The SDK is small)

In which programmation language it's better to develop for the PM3 and windows ?

Thanks for you help, (And sorry for my bad english

Benoit

haboustak · Post by **haboustak** » August 1st, 2007, 11:39 am

Benoit,

By far the best language to use is the one you're familiar with. That said, there are a few hurdles to using the supplied libraries directly in most languages. It was really targetted towards C or C++ users. (Rather than VB, Delphi, or even Borland C)

I'd seriously recommend you take a look at the PMI ActiveX control to get started. http://www.concept2.co.uk/software/pmi.php

It has an absolutely staggering 147 page manual that describes its use. And it's just about the perfect tool for what you want to do. You can get started communicating with your machine with just Excel and Visual Basic for Applications. Later, I'm sure you can move to VB6, or maybe VB.NET. And once you're familiar with all that you can revert to using the SDK directly in .NET language like C# or move to native C++.

Hope that helps,
Mike

Citroen · Post by **Citroen** » August 1st, 2007, 7:18 pm

haboustak wrote:I'd seriously recommend you take a look at the PMI ActiveX control to get started. http://www.concept2.co.uk/software/pmi.php

Mike, you beat me to it. That PMI ActiveX control is superb, it's so easy to work with Visual Basic. It gets my vote.

Perhap Beniot should volunteer to translate the PMI manual and examples into a French version for Chris.

Snail Space · Post by **Snail Space** » August 2nd, 2007, 1:05 am

Citroen wrote:That PMI ActiveX control is superb, it's so easy to work with Visual Basic.

I'd agree with Citroen about ease of use. I have a rudimentary understanding of programming, but can get all the data I want out of the PM3.

Cheers
Dave

Benoit · Post by **Benoit** » August 2nd, 2007, 3:12 am

Ok, thanks for your response !
Sorry for the translating.. so 147 pages..

Citroen · Post by **Citroen** » August 2nd, 2007, 3:55 am

Benoit wrote:Ok, thanks for your response !
Sorry for the translating.. so 147 pages..

I wasn't serious. Programming is programming in any language.