[Interest] QGeoPositionInfoSource on Windows 10

[maitai]

Thanks Maurice for your reply,

Yes I was referring to a classical widget app running on windows 
desktop.

So I will wait a bit for that, seems difficult to manage since app is 
running on a variety of Windows versions, including not so few XP 
users... BTW that is limiting a lot distribution on window's tablets 
like Surface, isn't it? I hope one day it will be as easy as it is on 
Android and iOS...

Philippe.

Le 02-06-2016 08:56, Maurice Kalinowski a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I assume that you are referring to classic apps when you talk about 
> Windows 10?
> 
> WinRT covers Windows Store Apps, meaning in case you have a universal
> app, then Qt Positioning is supported, given that the Broadcom chip
> works properly. But that is a driver thing.
> 
> In case you want to develop a classic / desktop app, you could try
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/159330/ This enables the WinRT
> Geolocation API for desktop builds in 5.7. However, this has
> implications on the versions of Windows you can run this application
> on and potentially have additional requirements.
> 
> For full "classic" desktop applications there was no unifying API and
> makers have always provided separate SDKs for those chips. Hence
> GeoLocation is a huge step into the right direction.
> 
> BR,
> Maurice
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Interest [mailto:interest-bounces+maurice.kalinowski=qt.io at qt-
>> project.org] On Behalf Of maitai
>> Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 6:09 AM
>> To: Interest at qt-project.org
>> Subject: [Interest] QGeoPositionInfoSource on Windows 10
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I can read here http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtpositioning-index.html
>> 
>> "Currently the API is supported on Android, iOS, OS X, Linux (using 
>> GeoClue
>> version 0.12.99), Windows (with GPS receivers exposed as a serial port
>> providing NMEA sentences), and WinRT (using
>> Windows.Devices.Geolocation)."
>> 
>> Question 1: Does it means there is no way so far to use an internal 
>> GPS on
>> windows 10? I have a user with a Samsung tablet/Windows 10 equipped 
>> with
>> broadcom GNSS 4752 / Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) who is
>> asking why it doesn't work like on Android or iOS...
>> 
>> 
>> When I try QGeoPositionInfoSource on my Windows 10 machine (no gps
>> internal nor external), I see these messages in the console:
>> 
>> Available position sources: ("serialnmea", "geoclue")
>> serialnmea: No known GPS device found. Specify the COM port via
>> QT_NMEA_SERIAL_PORT.
>> positioning method: All methods
>> minimum update interval (pos)= 1000
>> Failed to create Geoclue client interface. Geoclue error:
>> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected
>> 
>> Question 2: Does it means there is a way to use Geoclue on windows?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Philippe Lelong
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