Oval Is Certainly Not OPL!

Hi Jacques,

I keep running into walls!

Thanks for the links to Oval.  However on trying to get into it, I see that you'd need to be REALLY good at VB to use it (I'm not) and you'd need to know how to make it do what you want on a Workabout specifically. I'd be about 90 years old by the time I learned all that! It is nothing like OPL.  Databases mentioned and implemented the examples are VB, not Psion. So...

I tried the OPL example, replete with SCANM.OPL etc but didn't get anywhere at all as the Workabout refused to translate them ("#define" gives syntax err).

Delving further into "8168.Scansdk.pdf" I dug out an example in OPL, but again I got errors with "Name Too Long" ("TIMEOUTBEEP").  Looking for this being defined elsewhere, I found it defined in SCANM.OPL and that its corresponding *.OPO had (unlike OPLSCAN.OPO) been recognised on the Workabout.  But of course now I'm screwed again as SCANM.OPL contains the dreaded "#define" statements, so it too can't be modified and subsequently translated.

I'm stuck.  How do I translate and run the OPL examples in the "2570.scanopl.zip" file?

Mike Russell