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Did anyone manage to read a Windows machine's longtitude & latitude (GPS Position), without using .Net 4 libraries (Windows.Devices namespace) nor Javascript or other webbish code ?
There must be a native way. The location sensor is in the Control Panel,
I could not find any API nor valid documentation which allows me to read off of it, I would like to avoid having Net framework 4.0 as a dependency and invoking a browser process in the background, just to read current user's location via javascript is a huge overhead in my opinion
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The Geolocation. getCurrentPosition() method is used to get the current position of the device.
The HTML Geolocation API is used to get the geographical position of a user. Since this can compromise privacy, the position is not available unless the user approves it. Try It. Note: Geolocation is most accurate for devices with GPS, like smartphones.
The native Win32 API is the Sensor API. The Sensor API Programming Guide has some fairly detailed C++ examples.
Good article: Using Windows 7 Location API
(Google the above terms if the links ever break).
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answered Sep 27 '22 17:09
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