wip81 - 2007-01-30

Hi community

Firstly, thanks a lot to the (old and new) developer, who made this great program.
I've used PalmOrb on a Handspring Visor (on a USB Cradle and in conjunction with LCDSmartie 5.3, Meedio Essentials and the C.Mee plugin) mainly because I didn't want to cut a hole into my nice Marantz cover of my homemade MediaCenter for a real LCD. Together with X-Master and the Comlink Hack (http://www.freewarepalm.com/communication/comlink.shtml - redirects calls to the serial library of PalmOS to the Serial, USB (see below), IRComm or SIR port) that has always worked like a charm.
However, as I was fed up with the monochrome display, I tried it with a Palm m505 which doesn't want to work as there seems to be a problem with the USB cradle and the throughput of the data to the device.
The error message that shows is the fairly famous "Failed to open device: An USB Palm was detected but we failed to connect to PalmOrb. Please ensure PalmOrb is already running on your Palm"
In order to get it working, I see two different possibilities?! (I'm not a programmer, so please forgive me wrong conclusions)
1) A custom built "Comlink Hack". If it would be possible to choose "USB" (only possible on a Handspring Visor :o( ) on every device running PalmOS, the latter could redirect the serial library calls to USB which would result in PalmOrb working and which was the reason why it was with a Handspring Visor USB (it didn't without the Comlink Hack). That would instantly increase the number of USB palms PalmOrb works on and would be a more uniform solution instead of altering PalmOrb.
As the Comlink development (source files are available though for anyone who has the know-how - http://people.inf.ethz.ch/mringwal/downloads/comlink-1.0.9_sources.zip\) was stopped and because of me not being a programmer - is there an alternative to the Comlink Hack or any chance someone could alter it?
2) Buying a serial cradle/cable. Am I right to think that PalmOrb always works with a device on a serial connection?

Cheers
wip81