GPSOpenDevice

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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3

4/8/2010

This function creates a connection to the GPS Intermediate Driver.

Syntax

HANDLE GPSOpenDevice(
  HANDLE       hNewLocationData,
  HANDLE       hDeviceStateChange,
  const WCHAR *szDeviceName,
  DWORD        dwFlags
);

Parameters

• hNewLocationData
  Handle to a Windows Embedded CE event created using CreateEvent, or NULL. The GPS Intermediate Driver signals the passed event whenever it has new GPS location information.

• hDeviceStateChange
  Handle to a Windows Embedded CE event created using CreateEvent, or NULL. The GPS Intermediate Driver signals the passed event whenever the state of the device changes.

• szDeviceName
  Reserved. Must be NULL.

• dwFlags
  Reserved. Must be 0. **

Return Value

If successful, returns a handle to the GPS Intermediate Driver.

If unsuccessful, returns NULL.

Requirements

See Also

Reference

GPS Intermediate Driver Functions

Concepts

GPS Intermediate Driver Power Management
Accessing Parsed GPS Data

Other Resources

CreateEvent
CreateFile
GetLastError