Need help, GeolocationEvent.UPDATE does not fire?

[Vikram Raman]

Hi,

I am developing a small app in felx mobile project for blackberry playbook, am using flash builder burrito,
i want to get the current location's latitude ,longtitude value using GPS. But the geolocation event does not fire in my code, anyother way to get the latitude,longti tude value?

protected function button1_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
			{
				// TODO Auto-generated method stub
				
				if(Geolocation.isSupported)
				{
					    txt_GPS.text = "GPS Supported";			
					    geocode.setRequestedUpdateInterval(100);
				    	geocode.addEventListener(GeolocationEvent.UPDATE,handleLocationRequest);

				}				
				else
				{
					txt_GPS.text = "Not Supported";
				}
				
			}
			 
			public function handleLocationRequest(event:GeolocationEvent):void
			{
				txt_GPS.text = event.latitude.toString();
			}

[Plater]

Based on my experiences with Android, I would guess you need to tell the OS that it should send that GeolocationEven t.UPDATE message to you. I imagine Blackberry has something similar.

For example in Android the project has a manifest that says "I need to be able to see X message", and then you could trap for those events in the application

[Vikram Raman]

Hi plater thank you very much. The event does not fire in simulator but it fires on the playbook device, i m not sure, i dont have device right now. Anyway let me working with ur idea.

[Plater]

Ahh it is possible that the emulator does not support that kind of thing. I mean what would you have it do, generate random gps coordinates?

[Vikram Raman]

Yes plater, I want to generate random gps coordinates.

[Plater]

Then I think you would need to get with the people who made the emulator and request support for configuring what coordinates the GPS hardware will do.