For those that needs a DLL to communicate with their
GPS receiver FIKO Technologies are offering
WAY32GPS.DLL which is a comprehensive DLL for GPS
receivers based on NMEA and SiRF Star chipset. This
GPS DLL does handle all COM-port. USB or Bluetooth
communications and this is done under Virtual COM-
ports in Windows OS. Besides acting as a receiver it
have also commands for SiRF to activate EGNOS/WAAS,
Change Baud Rates, swap between NMEA and SiRF binary
protocols etc. The DLL comes with software samples and
source code in Visual basic to show how to use the DLL
and its commands. The VB software can also be used to
set baud rates etc. so its good for also practical
use.

If you’re a software developer, you have also the
opportunity to purchase the ownership of this DLL
which mean we will compile the DLL with your name
choice as well as all data in the property section
will indicate you or your company as owner of the
DLL. Such ownership DLL can be used in your software
applications redistributed or sold without paying any
royalties to FIKO.

The GPSWAY32.DLL is so easy to use that it beats any
DLL or OCX functions you've seen so far as the DLL are
running similar to what a EXE-file does. You can take
NMEA data direct from memory, also in Visual Basic,
without dealing with complicated code, threads or
pointers but still have the power of Direct Memory
Access.

With this technique, several programs may access the
GPS data in the same time solving the problems
accessing multiple COM-ports in the same time as you
only need to "kick start" one thread for the DLL and
use the same thread for several programs if
necessarily. Threads for the GPS source may be
started, destroyed, paused and resumed at any time.

Once the GPSWAY32.DLL thread is started and decoded
incomming NMEA strings, the data is stores in memory
where old messages are overwritten and only the most
recent decoded string is available for retrieval in
your program.

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