Easy OBEX transfers in Windows XP SP2 (sending files to phones)

Hello,

Maybe you have had similiar problems than I did, so I want to share this precious piece of information =]

I had to send files (OBEX push transfer) to a phone via Bluetooth using Windows XP SP2 Bluetooth stack. Nicely enough, XP SP2 provides thing called "Bluetooth File Transfer Wizard", also known as fsquirt.exe, which is a user friendly way to send files to a chosen phone. However, initiating the transfer with a specific filename proved to be a difficult task. fsquirt.exe ignores all command line parameters, because it uses more advanced drag'n'drop and send to -context menu support.

fsquirt.exe implements IDropTarget COM interface which allows finely tuned drag'n'drop information passing in Windows environment. I spent two days banging my head to a wall trying to simulate Send to context menu drag'n'drop event as instructed in the article: http://www.codeproject.com/shell/sendtomail.asp. All attemps just caused access violations in some untraceable location. Maybe some Windows API guru could have told me what was the problem, but I was kind of a rush and couldn't get help instantly.

Then my luck turned. I accidentally bumped to a free application "runmenu.exe" by Eluent software. http://www.eluent.com/runmenu.htm. It's made for calling Explorer's context and Send to menu items from .BAT files. I just added a process call:


and voila! Using an external helper exe is a kludgy solution, but works for now. If anyone can point me free Java Bluetooth library with OBEX and Microsoft Bluetooth stack support, I'd be grateful.

Cheers,
Mikko Ohtamaa
Oulu, Finland