Choose an API below based on your programming background, the platform(s) you'd like to work with, and the language(s) you'd like to code with, and then refer to the MindSet Development Guide for more information about your chosen API:

Runs as a background program, allowing your program to get ThinkGear data from a standard TCP/IP socket

• easiest (The TGC daemon app provides UI for setting up and maintaining the COM port connection to the headset for you)
• Platforms: Any platform that can communicate through sockets (The TGC daemon program itself must run on a Windows or Mac OSX system though)
• Languages: Flash, or any language that can communicate through sockets (which includes almost all popular programming languages)

Link a shared library: .dll or .bundle

• moderate (You have to call functions from the shared library)
• Platforms: Windows, Mac OSX, Windows Mobile, or any platform that can use functions from a .dll or .bundle
• Languages: C/C++, C#, Java (through JNI), or any language that can call shared library functions

A J2ME .jar library

• moderate (You have to call functions from the .jar library, and only for J2ME platforms)
• Platforms: J2ME
• Languages: Java

Specification Document

• harder (You have to open and read from the serial I/O port, and then parse the incoming data stream)
• Platforms: Any platform that can open and read from a serial I/O (or UART) port
• Languages: Any language that can open and read from a serial I/O port

Matlab programming

• specialized (This API allows you to program within the Matlab framework)
• Platforms: Any platform that can run Matlab
• Languages: Matlab programming language

Remember to look in the MindSet Developers Guide in the MDT for more info about your chosen API.

If you still have a question about which API will be right for you and your application, please describe your envisioned application to us through our Support Site or send us an email.