UI Design Pocket PC?

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    - Soft Keys and Today screen OK. But this cannot help when this registry keys doesn't define (that by default). Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Firefox "__Web_Network" error Thanks ToddOs, Guess what... after trimming my poor code of like 20Kb of functions and variables, and almost getting whatever's left of my brain splattered all over the monitor... I discovered that the actual problem was the Js file I was pulling down I just changed it for a different random script file, and the callback function started working again. I'm not really sure of what is causing the problem (here is the url if someone cares to take a look: http://www.blogpet.net/kanken/js/blogpet_library.js ), so now I don't really know what to do, because that Js file defines a variable that gets called on some onhover event and now that it's gone, I'm getting a nasty error. Any ideas on how can I load that code without killing the callback Thanks again, Daniel Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Read external text file with javascript This code should help you read from a remote text file: Code Snippet var txtFile = new XMLHttpRequest(); txtFile.open("GET", " http://my.remote.url/myremotefile.txt ", true); txtFile.onreadystatechange = function() { if (txtFile.readyState === 4) { // Makes sure the document is ready to parse. if (txtFile.status === 200) { // Makes sure it's found the file. allText = txtFile.responseText; lines = txtFile.responseText.split("\n"); // Will separate each line into an array } } } txtFile.send(null); AFAIK, you can use a local file, just use the file:// protocol (ie file://C:/Users/Andy/Documents/textfile.txt ). Andy Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Custom event seems to supress control autoscroll I have a custom control that is setup to autoscroll depending on the screen size. I recently added a second project to handle data access. I decided to use a Singleton pattern to control access to the data sources. I also created a couple of events - DataUpdateStarted, DataUpdateFinished so that my GUI elements could update properly when data changed. The problem I'm encountering is that when I add event handlers for the Data source, the autoscroll stops functioning in the original UserControl. Has anyone else experienced similar behavior Thanks. Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Picture box image storing Hello Michael thank you for the reply...but in this case only the last drawn p oints are taken into the array list and drawn on the bitmap...itsnot taking the previous points at all ...only the recent points are taken......if ever i make multiple drawings only the last drawn drawings are taken into the bitmap... Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Callbacks not supported at all?? On this page http://www.codeproject.com/netcf/compframe1.asp print=true the author suggests that delegate callbacks with P/Invoke are not officially supported at all on .NET compact framework. Can anybody confirm this It would be a bit of a blow since my application relies quite heavily on this feature. It can't be all true since all my callbacks taking simple arguments work just fine. Also I haven't seen this stated anywhere on MSDN. I guess I will be looking into passing an IntPtr in stead of the array and doing the marshalling myself. Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Localization of <title> string Thanks - I realised I was doing something daft - the title actually gets picked up from the Manifest, which is easily localisable. Thanks! Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Mobile Application in VS2007 HI, Thanx for reply.........but everything is fine now. Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Voip and Voice Call active simultaneously Thanks for your reply. So I suppose then it is not possible to control the phone hardware set of speakers and microphone, that is to mute, unmute the speakers, microphone by API's Regards Arpit Mehta Graduate Student Columbia University Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Multi instances Thanks Marijke S, This is so inconvenient. I have used the IE DOM toolbar to check the gadget part and there's one multiinstance attribute set to True. I am not sure this is the right attribute or not but if it is, seem that it's not used. Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Is 3d sound processing available on WM6? In addition to Ilya's answer. Windows Embedded CE 6.0 does support multi-channel audio. You should be able to port the OpenAL library to Windows Embedded CE 6 using the native multichannel audio support. Some more infos on Audio drivers and multichannel support see here: http://blogs.msdn.com/medmedia/archive/2007/01/03/windows-ce-audio-driver-samples.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/medmedia/archive/2007/01/16/multichannel-audio-in-windows-ce.aspx Michael Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - what is the spanner icon under the X button I wrote a how to on settings, which you can read here . Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Use Cellular Emulator With Other Windows Mobile Emulator? Well it works, but the problem is I need to send the SMS outside of emulator. The Cellular Emulator can send an SMS into emulator not inside emulator. That's my point. Because my system will receive SMS first to start working not sending SMS. Thanks anyway for the information. Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Creating a CAB file that will install files with % characters in their names "strings with pairs of % characters in them are generally recognized as environmental variables or macro variables under WinNT" True, but I was hoping that there would be a reasonable escape sequence, as opposed to certain valid filename characters not being allowed in an installer scenario. " ... why do your filenames need to contain % signs " My application has a cache that uses URL-encoding on the filenames. I wanted to prepopulate the cache on initial install. It is not really an option to change the caching scheme, although I could push back if this is going to be a problem with windows installers in general. Setting up a special set of files for my immediate purposes with %-free filenames would also be disproportionately difficult due to the parameters of the situation. Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Get All Mails from PocketPc C# Hi all, I am doing an application which intercept the SMS and MMS. I done this part. I wnat to intersept and get all the emails present in the Pocket pc thru c#. i stuck in this part. Help me. Thanks in advance. Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Sidebar Gadget Opacity I did see that reference while I was trying to figure this thing out, but unfortunately that only tells you what the opacity is. It doesn't allow you to actually set the opacity. Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Enable network tracing - how? I've tried to enable network tracing on a .NET CF app: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ty48b824.aspx However I dont see any network data debugging from VS2005. How can I enable network tracing Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Find IPs in ad-hoc network Hello all, I am developing an application in C# 2005, and I have the following problem: I have two PDAs (pda1 and pda2), and pda1 connects to pda2 via WiFi. How can i find the ip of pda2, from pda1 I can see of course only the SSID of pda2. I need the IP in order to use sockets... I tried the following code : IPHostEntry ipHostInfo = Dns.Resolve(device_id_pda2); IPAddress ipAddress = ipHostInfo.AddressList[0]; server = ipAddress.ToString(); but it returns fe80::202:78ff:fe8d e6a %5 What am I doing wrong The other solution I suppose would be to get all active questions of pda1, like 'netstat'. Is that feasible Thanks in advance, pk.- Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - known bug in the compact framework??? Thanks for the tips in the link. I am running my application on a iPaq 2495 with .Net CF 1.1. When I call Application.Run(new form1() the form being called DOES run, but always throw an ArgumentException at the same time and must catch it in order for my new form to load. I find this kind of strange. Is this a known bug . The code is below. Thanks in advance. Try Application.Run( New Reports) Catch argEx As ArgumentException 'the exception is thrown after the form loads, if it is not caught the new form WILL NOT load. Catch ex As Exception Finally End Try Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Playing sound during voice call If you are using the WM 5.0 or later device you can use the Notification Broker to get notified of the calls: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.windowsmobile.status.aspx Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Problem binding to Datagrid Thanks Ilya! You were very helpful. Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Windows CE 5.0 GPRS Connection Thanks Christopher! I will do what you say, I find an application on my device, TasCalRegEdit, with this application I can edit de registry. If some one can tell me how to edit the Unimodem source code or where can I find it, I will appreciate it a lot. Thanks for your time! Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Help ! can't connect my directshow filter with source filter Hi: thanks your reply, I change the code as you say,and I found that hr = 0x80040207( There is no common media type between these pins). I finally realized because the two pins media type are missmatch ,it faild to connect them. now I also found onething, because the code of mine in green.I change the code of checkmediatype as following. And maybe the media type is not the video or RGB565,so it failed. when I changed the code just return S_OK. Now it get connect! Code Snippet HRESULT CSampleGrabber::CheckMediaType( const CMediaType *pMT) { VIDEOINFO *pvi; ZeroMemory(&bmih,sizeof(bmih)); if( pMT->majortype != MEDIATYPE_Video || pMT->subtype != MEDIASUBTYPE_RGB565 ) { return E_INVALIDARG; } VIDEOINFOHEADER *pVih = reinterpret_cast(pMT->pbFormat); if(pVih->bmiHeader.biBitCount !=16 || pVih->bmiHeader.biCompression != BI_RGB) { return E_FAIL; } if(pVih->bmiHeader.biClrUsed > PALETTE_ENTRIES(pVih)) { return E_FAIL; } DWORD cbPalette = pVih->bmiHeader.biClrUsed*sizeof(RGBQUAD); if(pMT->cbFormat < sizeof(VIDEOINFOHEADER)+cbPalette) { return E_FAIL; } return S_OK; } but comes another problem. how do I know wha kind of t the media type that the pins agree since the code following Code Snippet CHK( m_pCaptureGraphBuilder->RenderStream( &PIN_CATEGORY_STILL, &MEDIATYPE_Video, m_pVideoCaptureFilter, NULL, gr )); when the graph from pause to run then the dorendersample will be called automatically! but after calling I get bih a bitmapinfoheader as pGrab->bih {biSize=0 biWidth=1324768 biHeight=40493382 ...} tagBITMAPINFOHEADER biSize 0 unsigned long int biWidth 1324768 long int biHeight 40493382 long int biPlanes 14752 unsigned short biBitCount 20 unsigned short biCompression 1 unsigned long int biSizeImage 1324800 unsigned long int biXPelsPerMeter -1033199818 long int biYPelsPerMeter 1330144 long int biClrUsed 4294967295 unsigned long int biClrImportant 0 unsigned long int it looks like not a still image,what's wrong with that Code Snippet HRESULT CSampleGrabber::DoRenderSample(IMediaSample *pMediaSample) { BYTE *RGB_565 = NULL; if(pMediaSample==NULL) { return S_FALSE; } else { hr = pMediaSample->GetPointer(&pbData); if(SUCCEEDED(hr)) { pMediaSample->GetMediaType(&mt); ZeroMemory(&bih,sizeof(BITMAPINFOHEADER)); if (mt->formattype == FORMAT_VideoInfo) { VIDEOINFOHEADER *vih = (VIDEOINFOHEADER*)mt->pbFormat; bih = vih->bmiHeader; } if (bih.biSize == 0) { VIDEOINFOHEADER *vih = (VIDEOINFOHEADER*)mt->pbFormat; bih = vih->bmiHeader; } if(mt->subtype == MEDIASUBTYPE_RGB565) { if(bih.biHeight<0) bih.biHeight = -(bih.biHeight); RGB_565 = new BYTE[bih.biWidth * bih.biHeight * 2]; memcpy(RGB_565, pbData, bih.biWidth * bih.biHeight * 2); FILE *fp; fp = fopen(" \\620.raw","wb "); fwrite(RGB_565,bih.biWidth * bih.biHeight * 2,sizeof(BYTE),fp); fclose(fp); return S_OK; } else return S_FALSE; } } } Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - How to play mp3, midi file in my code? Hello, Everyone: Does anyone know how to play mp3, midi,mmf , wav file I use Playsound( ), but find it can not work. Does anyone know how to do it Thanks! Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Using C# Dll in VC++ Dll Hi There is nothing like C# Dll and VC++ Dll, all Dll are same. You can call the exported functions by 1.Create function pointer of the method you are going to invoke from the dll 2.Create a varibale for the function pointer. 3.Load the library - LoadLibray() API 4.Get the method address - GetProcAddress() API and assign to function pointer variable 5.Use the varible and call it wiht the parametrs of the function. 6.Unload the library - FreeLibrary() API Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Building a driver setup I hava a sys file and an inf file. Is there any way to build a driver setup from these files that installs the driver Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Notification buttons Thank you Chris. If it is too hard may be I'll just stick to the default Hide button But I'll be interested in the sample application u're creating. Thanks! :-D Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - threading Well, if you are using the Compact Framework, the thread class's Join method does not take a Timespan object as an argument. It takes an integer value that represents the maximum number of milliseconds that you want it to wait for the thread to join on. Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Convert object to arraylist thx... the return was ok but the declaration of the new arraylist was pathetic... Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Switching Locale through Gadget Hi, I was wondering whether there is any function/method in js that allows the user to switch the locale EG from en-Us to zh-HK i was looking at : int GetLocaleInfo( LCID Locale , LCTYPE LCType , LPTSTR lpLCData , int cchData ); BOOL SetLocaleInfo( LCID Locale , LCTYPE LCType , LPCTSTR lpLCData ); http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms776270.aspx How does these two work Thanks for your time in advance ^^ Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Serial Port DataReceived Event in .Net 2.0 I am having the same issue. Wanted to know if you found a solution. Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?
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    - Astoria Roadmap I would like to bump this thread to the top, to see if we can get some new news about the roadmap! Thanks! Tag: UI Design Pocket PC?

Kart_lin

Hello ,
i am designing a Pocket PC 2003 App.
How best the GUI can be designed or is there any guidelines to build rich GUI.
Pls suggest.

Thanks
Karthik

Re: UI Design Pocket PC?

AndrewBadera

it's just another winform application ... smartphone UI is a little trickier b/c you have less capable cursor interaction, but pocket pc is pretty easy -- just create controls as you normally would, keeping in mind you're working with a much smaller screen. buttons, input fields (textbox, checkbox, etc.), panels, it's all the same stuff as a desktop windows form application.

Re: UI Design Pocket PC?

Chez

you might find the following links useful..

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/articles/AT4228820897.html

and, if you are going for ms conformance, there is a UI section here

http://www.microsoft.com/mobile/assets/microsoft_pocketpc_handbook.pdf

Re: UI Design Pocket PC?

Sriram Krishnan MSFT

You should try looking at the Windows Mobile Logo guidelines - they're a great source of information