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nautic:
I'm new to Lazarus. I have spent lots of time with Delphi.

Is it possible to access IRDA ports on PC? or to an irda USB device?

felipemdc:
What is IRDA? For which operating system?

With USB one solution which is often possible is using a driver which creates a virtual COM port for the USB device, then you can use any Serial COMM library like Synaser to access it.

I personally have already used FTDI USB devices with no problems. Here there is also some info about libusb:

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Hardware_Access#USB

HenkNL:
IRda is a infrared transmitter/receiver system (very short bursts) mostly used in commucations with mobile devices.

JD:

--- Quote from: HenkNL on August 16, 2010, 02:31:54 pm ---IRda is a infrared transmitter/receiver system (very short bursts) mostly used in commucations with mobile devices.

--- End quote ---

IRDA was the "in thing" (circa mid 90s to early 2000s) with mobile devices before Bluetooth took over. The big issue, if I remember correctly, was that the transmitter & the receiver must not have an obstacle between them. If this is not the case, the receiver will not receive the signals.

Not good if you want to send a file to someone whose phone is in his pocket.  :D

That's why mobile devices today use Bluetooth.

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