[Diggory Laycock]

Does anyone know what the state of Infra-red on OS X is and whether there are any cocoa classes that deal with IR comms?

All I do know is that my searches on google didn't seem to un-earth anything, but I have used OS X to dial-up using my Nokia, so it must be there somewhere {probably undocumented}

p.s. there is a IR "menu extra" lurking in 10.1 but it doesn't seem to work /do anything on my PB G3 {firewire}.

As I cannot find any official info on IR I fear it is one of those things that just missed 10.1 like the ability to use PCMCIA SmartMedia readers and USB printer sharing {one hopes}

[Angus_D]

PCMCIA card support is in IOKit and has been for some time, AFAIK.

And you would probably want to look into IOKit for IR, too -- it's a straight C API that can be called from Cocoa or Carbon, or in fact terminal-based "BSD" applications (that wouldn't really be BSD applications, because they rely on proprietary Apple libraries (IOKit), but hey)

[michaelb]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
<STRONG>PCMCIA card support is in IOKit and has been for some time, AFAIK.

And you would probably want to look into IOKit for IR, too -- it's a straight C API that can be called from Cocoa or Carbon, or in fact terminal-based "BSD" applications (that wouldn't really be BSD applications, because they rely on proprietary Apple libraries (IOKit), but hey) </STRONG>

Angus_D is right, there is some IrDA support in IOKit but it looks just skeleton at this stage. I'd say it's in their 10.2 "to do" basket.

PCMCIA / Cardbus support is in 10.1 but mainly for things like USB adapters for pre-USB PowerBooks.

But no CompactFlash / other media reading there yet. A lot of professional photographers are very upset about this. Don't kow how easy drivers would be to do. Probably 10.2 "to do" too for Apple.