Bluetooth detection and use?

[Douglas Ruisaard]

I'm always happy to see the Bluetooth topic "revived" for another exposure on this forum... since I also am quite interested in it.

I have been VERY successful in using the mergBLE library in LC for IOS (but it takes some getting used to) ... 

Unfortunately, it is exclusive to IOS which leaves desktop OS's and Android out in the cold.


Douglas Ruisaard
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> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 16:46:54 +0200
> From: Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Bluetooth detection and use?
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> After a long long interval of not really coding anything, I?m thinking of a cross-platform app that
> uses Bluetooth devices. I see that mergNIC can tell me if my iOS has something connected via
> Bluetooth, but that raises a lot more questions than it answers, such as ?what kind of device have we
> here?? and ?oops, I?m on Android/ Mac/ PC, now what??, and ?glad we?re connected, how do we actually
> read some data?"
> 
> Is anyone out there using Bluetooth, or is it not a suitable thing to mix with LC?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Graham
>