Tools guide — RIM 950 Wireless Handheld simulator 27
Developer’s Guide – RIM 950 Wireless Handheld™
The Simulation menu
In the Radio Simulator Control panel dialog box, you can sim ulate
various coverage conditions.
Simulating serial I/O The simulator has the ability to use one of the PC’s serial ports as the
RIM Wireless Handheld’s serial port. This option must be enabled via
the /S command line option when you start the simulator. If no /S
option is specified or the serial port is not available at startup, you
cannot open or use the serial port from the applica tions running on t he
simulator.
When opening a serial port on the PC, the orientation of the serial port
on the PC is as it would normally be. Thus, if you wish t o simulate a
connection between the RIM Wireless Handheld and the PC via the
provided serial port, you must connect the PC’s serial port to another
PC’s serial port via a null modem cable to communicate. If both your
simulator and your application connected to the RIM Wireless Handheld
are running on the same physical PC, they must be connected to
different physical serial ports on your PC and the serial ports must be
linked using a null modem cable.
Flash simulation files In order to simulate the non-volatile nature of flash memory, the RIM
Wireless Handheld simulator loads the flash co ntents from a file on
startup and saves them back to the file on exit. The state of the sim ulated
flash is preserved in a file in the working directory named
OSXXXYY.DMP, where XXX is one of PGR (pager), HH (handheld), or OEM,
and YY is one of MB (Mobitex) or DT (DataTAC).