PDA alias option greyed out

[Monkins]

Dear all

I have been devloping a system that runs on a cFP2120 and  a TPC-2006 touch screen.  Usually I have an alias file on the touch screen that looks at the shared variables on the cFP.  BUt today I started again from scratch with a new project , and copied in all the vi's and deployed the fieldpoint program successfullly, and built the PDA program, but the option to depoly the alias file was greyed out so i continued with the build anyway and copied it to th eTPC-2006 and it worked, how does the PDA program know what IP address to look at?

Also when i created the shared variables on the fieldpoint I dragged in the vlib from the the previous build.

Its strange because it shouldnt work and it does

Any help why his is happening woul d be appriciated becuase I will be going to site and I have 2 TPC-2006 and 2 filedpoints on one network and I dont wont them to conflict.

Thanks

Chris

[miko]

Hi Chris,

Are you using an older embedded Visual C++ 4.0 target? This target uses capital letters for the name (i.e., POCKET PC 2003 Device vs the newer Pocket PC 2003 Device). The deploy aliases file option is not available (and greyed out) for this older target. I'd suggest replacing the eVC++4.0 target with the newer target that comes with the PDA/Touch Panel Module.

The default IP address used by the built application is the IP address of the host at the time the application is built. You can view the default IP address of the host on the "Machine Aliases" page of the build specification or on the host device property page. You need to deploy the aliases file only if the IP address of the host is going to be different when you move the system to a different site. If the IP address stays the same (fixed), then you don't need to deploy the aliases file. You can read mode about this topic here.

[Monkins]

yeah thats what IVE done, I clicked on the capitals one.  I actually looking at the non caps one and the caps one and thought which one did i choose last time . 

MAny thanks