Bluetooth not working

[Harry Simpson]

I've a PPC app (Compact Framework) in which I send CPCL code a Zebra Active
X control. This works great with a connected via serial cable between the
printer and PPC. Labels happily print out. Now
I'm trying to print from a Symbol 8800 with Bluetooth to a Zebra QL220 with
Bluetooth. I've set the COM8 output in my code but see no place on the
Symbol in which to set output via Bluetooth.
The ZebraPrint ActiveX control says it supports Bluettoth but it seems no
one at Symbol or Zebra knows how to use Bluetooth.....

Any ideas?

TIA
Harry

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

Setting up a virtual COM port over bluetooth varies depending on the
Bluetooth stack on the device. If it is running the WidComm stack you can
use the Bluetooth Manager to set up an outgoing COM port, and then connect
to this from your code. If your device is running the Microsoft stack there
is no default way to set up a COM port, although some devices have an extra
control panel item called "Bluetooth Settings" which allows you to define
one outgoing COM port to a specific device. Alternatively you can use
RegisterDevice as described in the SDK documentation to create a virtual COM
port on the fly. There will be a managed wrapper around this in the
OpenNETCF.Net.Bluetooth library but it's not fully operational in the
current code online (www.opennetcf.org/sourcebrowse).

Peter