How to code a screensaver on WM5

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    - wap-provisioning: FileOperation I can't get the FileOperation configuration provider to work. I am trying to delete a shortcut: _setup.xml: <wap-provisioningdoc> <characeristic type="FileOperation"> <characteristic type="%CE2%\Start Menu\Programs" translation="install"> <characteristic type="%CE2%\Start Menu\Programs\Pocket MSN.lnk" translation="install"> <characteristic type="Delete"> <parm name="ForceDelete"/> </characteristic> </characteristic> </characteristic> </characteristic> </wap-provisioningdoc> This is in _setup.xml inside a signed cab, but won't install.. I looked at "Metabase" CSP but not sure what to do with it to make the above possible. Anyone else got a clue? Lisa Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118350
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    - How can I Test an Application written for Windows Mobile? Hello All, I am currently working with a new version of Windows 5 Mobile for a PDA device. I have developed a application that accesses files and calculates information based on the data received. In addition, the data is animated on screen. I have only tested this application using an emulator. In general, I am looking to gain confidence that the application runs well using the platform? As the target device is a PDA mobile phone running under Windows I was wondering if anyone has experience of testing applications under this environment! The questions I have: 1. How can I measure the usage of the application resources whilst the application is running? 2. How can I get a test application to capture and send key inputs to the application and read of results of operations? 3. Can I automate the testing of this to simulate operation of the application, test the operation of the mobile device? 4. Can I capture the results of these operations to a file? 5. Is there any software out there that allows me to achieve my aims? If so, can anyone recommend some test suites. 6. Is there any free software I can use to automate testing in general...? Many thanks in advance, Richard Latter Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118347
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    - How can I Test an Application written for Windows Mobile? Hello All, I am currently working with a new version of Windows 5 Mobile for a PDA device. I have developed a application that accesses files and calculates information based on the data received. In addition, the data is animated on screen. I have only tested this application using an emulator. In general, I am looking to gain confidence that the application runs well using the platform? As the target device is a PDA mobile phone running under Windows I was wondering if anyone has experience of testing applications under this environment! The questions I have: 1. How can I measure the usage of the application resources whilst the application is running? 2. How can I get a test application to capture and send key inputs to the application and read of results of operations? 3. Can I automate the testing of this to simulate operation of the application, test the operation of the mobile device? 4. Can I capture the results of these operations to a file? 5. Is there any software out there that allows me to achieve my aims? If so, can anyone recommend some test suites. 6. Is there any free software I can use to automate testing in general...? Many thanks in advance, Richard Latter Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118346
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    - .NET CF 2.0 & UriFormatException Any idea why following code raises an UriFormatException ? ctrlBrowser.Navigate(New Uri("file://\My Documents\My Directory\My Book\home.txt")) I don't see a malformed URI, and before a ROM Update of my Dell Axim it worked fine. Thanks, Wolfgang Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118338
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    - plug-and-play enumerator Hi, I have developed an application for reading data from a chip card with type of 1 ISO-sized slot ("credit card" format). For this purpose I use a card reader from pro-active. (SpringCard-CF) Normally my application works ok and there is no problem. I have a problem after sleep mode on PDA for more then an hour. The look like my device (the card reader) is gone after sleep mode for more then an hour and I can not connect to my device any more, event I terminate my application and run it again. The only ways I can get the application to work again is unplugging the card reader from my PDA and plug it again to PDA. The look like my device (card reader) is gone from the active driver list on PDA. Is there any body have any experience with this type of problem? Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118337
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    - best way to syncronisation hi , i wanna develop a ppc application and a desktop application. the should sync here data. on the ppc i save my data on a sql server mobile database. how can i now sync between the desktop and ppc `? Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118335
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    - What is the difference between DirectShow in MOBILE 5.0 and DirectShow on PC? Hi Can someone help ? What is the difference between DirectShow in MOBILE 5.0 and DirectShow on PC ? Can the samples run ? Thank you very much. Michel Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118334
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    - About the MSDN paths In MSDN http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms932673.aspx They talk about some samples that we can found in %_PUBLICROOT%\DIRECTX\SDK\SAMPLES\DSHOW\FILTERS. I already installed the WM 5.0 Developer Resource Kit Where are these files? Thank you Michel Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118332
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    - DMProcessConfigXML Uninstall failing I've got an application that appears to be installed correctly, but when I use DMProcessConfigXML to uninstall it, it returns CONFIG_E_TRANSACTIONINGFAILURE. A description is at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mobilesdk5/html/mob5lrfDMProcessConfigXML.asp Are there any common reasons that CONFIG_E_TRANSACTIONINGFAILURE would be returned on an uninstall? I know my xml isn't the problem, because the same string (with a different application substituted in) works fine for uninstalling other apps. Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118320
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    - Putting a REAL in SQLCE Hi, Here I aam with another stupid question to which I can't find an answer: I have to insert a simple float into a SQLCE database. I do something like: INSERT INTO table (data) VALUES ('XXXXX'). Which should be the format of XXXX ???? I am trying everything, but I can't get my numbers in it. I program in CSharp and I use the method float.ToString(format). Does anyone know a right format string ? (I have also to cope with the regional settings! So i need a universal format). Thanks very much. Dario Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118319
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    - Can I run a PPC App on my desktop? I have a great GPS program that I use on my PPC and was wondering if anyone knows of a way to port it or run it on a laptop? Is there software or hardware that willa llow me to run PPC Apps on an XP Pro machine or something similar? Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118316
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    - Windows ScrollThumb Problem Hello I'm using Win32 API - Visual C and use and catch messages from scrollbars that i use with my main window. The problem is that once i move the scroll thumb it jumps back to 0 when i release it. Why is that? How can this be fixed? Here is how i tried, but still jumps back to zero: case WM_HSCROLL: { int nScrollCode = (int)LOWORD(wParam); int nPos = (short int)HIWORD(wParam); if (nPos != 0); nTest = SetScrollPos(hWnd, SB_HORZ, nPos, TRUE); nHPosition = nPos; InvalidateRect(hWnd, NULL, false); } break; Thanks Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118310
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    - Old Topic: Pocket PC emulator slow on startup I saw this topic in the archives and since the message is more than 60 days old, couldn't comment on this. The original thread suggests that since TCP/IP is used for comunication between the computer and emulator, prescence of a firewall could be responsible for the emulator running slowly. Deployment of a simple native app (even with the emulator running) takes more than a minute on an average. .NET CF takes close to 10 mins (or more) to installed. .NET CF apps take 2+ mins to start. There are times when there's as much as a 10 second delay in debug mode when I move from one line to the next (F10). I'm using Visual Studio 2005 and the WM5.0 SDK. My development computer has XP firewall enabled, on top of which I'm behind a company firewall. Is this the reason behind the sluggish perfomance of the emulator? Even when I run it with Ctrl-F5, the processor usage spikes to 100% frequently. The machine has an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ processor with 1 GB RAM. I'm sure the emulator can run faster, is there anything I can do to speedup the emulator? Do I need admin privileges of any sort to do so? Regards, Abhijit. Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118309
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    - network issues with emulator Hi All, I'm making a Native WM 5.0 internet app for the Pocket PC. However, the moment I do an InternetOpen() call, the program crashes. I looked at the emulator settings and configured it to use the NE2000 PCMCIA network adapter, but no luck. So, can anyone tell me how to configure the emulator to use the host computer's NIC? Also, do I need admin privileges to make any changes?? Regards, Abhijit Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118308
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    - Change ringing mode programatically Hi, I'm trying to %subj%. If I modify HKCU\ControlPanel\Notifications\ShellOverrides\Mode, then after 1-2s the "original" value is back (I'm now using MobileRegistryEditor for testing). What I'm doing wrong? -- Jiri {x2} Cincura http://blog.vyvojar.cz/jirka/ | http://www.ID3renamer.com Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118306
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    - Global exception handling I use .NET CF and VS 2005 to write application. How can I do global exception handling? I tried following code: Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices 'application class Public Class TTApplication Public Shared Sub Run(ByVal form As Form) form.Show() Dim m As MSG Dim ptr As IntPtr = IntPtr.Zero While GetMessage(m, ptr, 0, 0) Try TranslateMessage(m) DispatchMessage(m) Catch e As Exception MessageBox.Show(e.Message) End Try End While End Sub <MTAThread()> _ Public Shared Sub Main() Dim f As Form = New Form() TTApplication.Run(f) End Sub End Class After first unhandling exception in application I got WM_QUIT message. I tried to ignore first WM_QUIT but application was halting. Any suggestion? -- Dmitry Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118305
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    - Image+ScrollBars Hello I'm trying to display an ... let's say 1024x768 resolution image on a 640x480 Pocket PC. If i use BitBlt(), it will only display the x=0, y=0, width = 480, height = 640 of it. I need to use something to automatically display scrollbars to let me view my whole image. Is there anything like this in Win32 API? Regards Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118304
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    - WM5 and later... certificate strategy ? Hi, Our company have many mobile users out of office. They are using PPC 2003 device with a complex deployment mechanims we have built. This mechanims is used to remotly deploy applications on the device based on some business rules. The applications are deployed using custom cab and cpf files. The next wave of users will use devices based on windows mobile 5.0 (and later 6.0, etc.) which have a policy for deploying applications (cab files must be digitally signed with a certificate). The problem is that the devices only have two trusted certificates (ms' one and the mobile operator one). Since cab files are often created, we can't rely on the mobile operator to sign all of our cab files (heavy and log process... up to several days) that's why we would like to add our own certificate in the trusted authorities on the device. Do you have any advise how to reach our goal ? Note that the devices are shipped with a SD storage card which contains an autorun.exe file. This autorun is used to deploy the global application and is written in C++. I'm thinking about using this autorun.exe file (always executed) to install programmatically the certificate in the correct store, but I don't know where to start... Thanks in advance for any help. Steve Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118302
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    - question about CreateFile and FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH Hello everyone, Suppose I have a file created with FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL attribute. I think it means attribute FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH is not enabled. Is my understanding correct? And I think if I do not enable the FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH attribute, even if flush operation (function call) will not *truly* dump data to disk. Is my understanding also correct? So, my question is, when will the data be dumped to disk -- only when we close the file? thanks in advance, George Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118300
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    - is there a way to record incoming voice? Hello, I'm having a difficult time finding software that records incoming voice. Is this even possible? I'm a bit of a programmer in vb, and was wondering if anyone can advise. Thanks! Matt Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118299
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    - How to remove MSN Messenger? How do I uninstall MSN Messenger from my pocket pc? It's in ROM, so can't be really uninstalled, but all shortcuts and such removed... Possible through provisioning xml? How is this done on SmartPhone? Lisa Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118298
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    - RunOnce equivalent? Hi, I wish to run a command once after a soft reset. Is there another way than to put something in startup folder and then deleting that after startup? Lisa Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118294
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    - copy system file Is there a tool that can copy system files? I wish to make a copy of wceload.exe Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118292
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    - NAVMAN PiN 570 Problems Powering up GPS Unit Programmatically. I just purchased up a bargain priced NAVMAN PiN 570, running PPC2003 and hoped to develop some GPS applications. The trouble is, I can't figure out how to programmatically switch the GPS on (although there is a control panel applet to do so). Also, if I do switch on with the control panel, my software eventually gets a fix and valid data, but the left hand GPS led continues to blink. I looked at controlling the LED's with NLedGetDeviceInfo and friends, however although reporting 2 LED's, if I try to get details of LED nubmer 1 using NLED_SETTINGS_INFO_ID, it changes the data in the structure, and reports details of LED 0. Has anyone got any hints on how to go about powering up the GPS receiver, and setting the fix LED to constantly on after receiving a fix? Anthony Wieser Wieser Software Ltd Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118288
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    - SQL Compact Edition downloads and content now live http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/compact/default.mspx -- Ginny Caughey Device Application Development MVP Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118278
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    - Has anyone suceeded in playing WMV files via Directshow on WM5? Has anyone succeeded in playing WMV files on a Windows Mobile 5 device via Directshow? And if so, would you share the steps you took to get it to work? Where did you get the filters from? I originally used the Mediaplayer OCX, but it has some quirks -- notably its not working with the Samsung Blackjack, and I'm getting flickering/inability-to-stretch on Axim X51v; So i decided to try directshow. I can get uncompressed avi's to play in directshow; but I haven't found any thread that positively says they were able to play wmv files. And if not, are there any other formats that have decent compression that will work with directshow? Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118277
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    - Replication in Sql Server 2005 Express Hi, i'm a Brazilian Developer of Pocket Pc. I would very like to participate of this group, to help in my doubts regarding pockets pcs. Currently I am with a problem when trying to carry through replicacao of one pocket PC with sql Server 2005 Express Edition. It is possible? How to carry through? Somebody has some suggestion? C=E9zar Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118275
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    - DirectShow on Mobile5.0. Is is possible to show the camera preview with an addition of Bitmap or drawing Hi gentles I would like to allow camera preview with some bitmap superposition. It could be some drawing on DC too. It would be fine to have alfa-blending for bitmap. Is the CF2.0 gives some such capability. ? The Code should compile and work on Mobile 5.0 (CF2.0) Thank you very much Michel Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118272
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    - CreateProcess question Hi, I have this: if (CreateProcess(.......)) { WaitForSingleObject(pi.hProcess, INFINITE); CloseHandle( pi.hProcess ); CloseHandle( pi.hThread ); } Is CloseHandle really required in this case? If missing, what will happen? Lisa Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118267
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    - Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition Hi, I wish to develop native and .NET applications for WM5. I need Visual Studio 2005 Standard or Professional for this, right? Does Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition include the Visual Studio C++/C# IDE's and SDK for developing Mobile applications or is that a seperate product that supports/complements Visual Studio 2005 IDE? If Team Edition includes this, do I need everything or does it exist as seperate modules of which I only need one to get the IDE? Lisa Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118266
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    - How to create tabs How do I create tabs as seen on most pages on the WM5 device? The "Settings" page is one good example. I use C++ native code and have tried the "Tab Control", but can't make it look like the tab controls on the existing pages. Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118250
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    - pack together multiple cabs How can I pack together multiple cabs into a single one and have them installed? I'm using eVC, I think cabwiz for WM5 (VS2005) is quite different, right? Lisa Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118247
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    - Pocket PC service Hi All: I wanted the program started when the system boots. And known that implement it as a service could accomplish that I tried a demo (http://www.pocketpcdn.com/articles/services.html) which will be dispaly a messagebox when the system boots but with no luck: I put the demo dll in to Windows folder and manually create the according registry entries under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\MyServ" then reboot the device but with no message box pops up. Is there something I've missed? In addition how's the registry gonna be created first in order to let service.exe start the thread when the program ready to release, create a package which will do that? Is it the only way? Thanks Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118245
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    - GetCallerProcess and GetOwnerProcess in my WM 5.0 service Can't use GetCallerProcess and GetOwnerProcess in my WM 5.0 service application! Which header file and library does I need? Regards, Daniel. Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118238
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    - Get process handle of caller in XXX_IOControl? Is it possible to get the process handle of the application that calls DeviceIoControl inside the XXX_IOControl method of a service? Regards, Daniel. Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118237
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    - eVC++ Cannot build anything hi I am trying to compile "Hello World" project given by eVC++, but it is givin following error- Error executing cl.exe I tried creating an empty project and a simple program. Still the same error is occuring. Can anybody plz help me out. I have not used eVC++ before, so I'm new to it. -Shruti Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118231
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    - single cab for PPC and SP? I know I can create a single cab file with binaries for different platforms so right one gets installed, but can I create a single cab file with seperate binaries for SP and PPC? Lisa Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118230
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    - ActiveSync Issues on developing a usb driver. I am developing a USB function driver for Pocket PC 2005(Phone Edition). The device communicate with the desktop through RNDIS function class. There are 2 problems after ActiveSync connected. 1. When select Add/Remove Programs item from tools menu, Sometime it can retrieve data, and give a list of installed program, but most of all, it prompts "Unable to retrieve the mobile device information. Please reconnect and try again". 2. When click the "Explore" button, the folders in the device can be showed in the explorer at the first time, but when you close the explorer, then click the "Explore" button again, there is nothing listed in the new explorer. Is there any suggestion on these issue? BRs, Winbo. Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118228
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    - Does anyone know if WinCE 5.0 support bluetooth eSCO and EDR? Happy new year~ Does anyone know if WinCE 5.0 support bluetooth eSCO and EDR? thanks. -- Message posted via http://www.pocketpcjunkies.com Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118226
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    - How to print HEX value on a pocket PC Dialog Box ? Hi Group, I have an application where I receive some HEX data through a virtual com port, just few bytes and I want to print the HEX values on a pocket PC screen. How can I do that ? This is my part of the code: // Put text in receive text box. SendDlgItemMessage (hWnd, ID_RCVTEXT, EM_REPLACESEL, 0, (LPARAM)szText); where sxText is a BYTE array with the HEX values, I would like to have something like a "classic" printf( ... %x ..) thanks, Gl. Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118224
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    - Mimic a Submit Button in the HTML Control Hello, Does anyone know how to mimic a "Submit" Button in the HTML Control in Pocket PCs? There is a solution for PCs using COM Ptrs, IHTMLFormElement and IHTMLDocuments...but these interfaces are not found in embedded systems. What I'm trying to do is grab form data from an html page without the user clicking on the "Submit" button. I have to (behind the scene) simulate the click so it can send a notification message to NM_HOTSPOT, which is where my form data is held. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Kathy Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118219
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    - Aaaaarghhh!!! Drawing a circle? How difficult can it be to draw a circle and a couple of lines in VS 2005 VB.net??????? It was so much easier when I could just select a tool and draw them at design time! This has got me really frustrated, and feeling pretty stupid. All I want to do is to display a circle on a pocket PC screen (WM5) have it intersected with a horizontal and vertical line so that it looks like the cross hairs on a gun sight. I then want a smaller crosshair in the middle that can be moved around by means of four buttons, one each for up, down, left and right. Each time a button is clicked I want the small crosshair to move .01mm in the corrosponding direction. The large crosshair will always remain stationary, thus referencing the centre of the circle I'm a real novice programmer and this is driving me mad. My simple programs have never really needed any sort of graphics before. It used to be so easy. Can anyone help me out please. Many thanks Jem Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118216
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    - EVC3, EVC4 or VStudio 2005? Hi Everyone, I have to maintain 2 programs one is PocketPC 2003 app and the other is WinCE application. In the past the Pocket PC program was compiled using evc3 and the WinCE was created and compiled using evc4. I have just had to rebuild my development computer and I can't compile either one of the projects. (I can't seem to get all the pieces together!). Anyway, I tried to open the PocketPC project (evc3) in VS2005 put it wouldn't compile there either. wcesock.h was missing. Anyway, before I get too deep into this conversion, I wanted to know which compiler I should use. Should I convert the two program to VS2005? Thanks AliR. Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118214
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    - zebra cameo 2 printer Hi guys!! Im new in this pocket wonderful world, im begging to develop under windows ce 5.0, now i have to send to print text from a handheld (wince 5) to a bluetooht zebra cameo 2 printer, i dont know how to begin, i've downloaded some pdfs from zebra's site, i wonder if someone can guide me with this. As a simple sample i want to send the text "hello world" to the printer, i've read about CPCL, its simple but i dont have idea how to send that code to the printer, does someone has an example that shows how to do this? Regards. Rick Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118211
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    - Accessing System Tray Icons Here's what I'm trying to do: I've got a PocketPC device which has a particular (third party) application loaded, and it has an icon which is displayed in the System Tray (lower right corner); the app uses this icon to display the app's status. I'm writing an app which needs to run in full screen, to disallow end-user access to the Start Button, etc. "Kiosk Mode." My customer wants my app to show the third-party app's icon, that way if that app's status changes, they can see its status without accessing the Start Menu. Is there a way I can access the icons that are in the System Tray? If so, I'd just copy the icon from that window and display it on my dialog. Ideas? Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118210
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    - Visual Studio 2005 ServicePack 1 destroys release builds for WinCE 5 PocketPC I have a project that I've been developing for many years and various CE platforms. It was running without any problems on WinCE 5 PocketPC devices as built by Visual Studio 2005 and Win Mobile 5 PocketPC SDK. It uses MFC and is native C++. When built properly the executable is about 985kB. After installing Service Pack1 the project builds to the size of 887kB and fails on a device (when opening dialogs like property sheets...). Debug version runs just fine on the Visual Studio emulator. Trying to run the SP1 built release version on the emulator generates a microsoft error announcement for gwes.exe with a suggestion to send report to Microsoft. I've checked this on three different machines with VS 2005 SP1 and three without SP1. Uninstalling VS 2005 and WinMobile 5 SDK and re-installing them without SP1 solves the problem. Does anyone know what may be causing this. Any related known SP1 problems? Does anyone at M$ bother about quality? Henryk Birecki Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118202
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    - Cabwiz setup.dll and theme problem Hi, In my CESetup.dll I wish to install a theme. I created this function: BOOL LoadTheme(LPCTSTR pszThemeFile) { HKEY hKey; LONG lRet; TCHAR szCmdLine[MAX_PATH]; PROCESS_INFORMATION pi; lRet = RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, _T("Software\\Microsoft\\Today"), 0, 0, &hKey); if(ERROR_SUCCESS == lRet) { RegDeleteValue(hKey, _T("UseStartImage")); _stprintf(szCmdLine,_T("/safe /noui /nouninstall /delete 0 \"%s\""), pszThemeFile); if(CreateProcess(_T("\\Windows\\wceload.exe"), szCmdLine, NULL, NULL, FALSE, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL, &pi)) { WaitForSingleObject(pi.hProcess, INFINITE); CloseHandle( pi.hProcess ); CloseHandle( pi.hThread ); RegSetValueEx(hKey, _T("Skin"), 0, REG_SZ, (BYTE*)pszThemeFile, sizeof(TCHAR) * (_tcsclen(pszThemeFile) + 1)); RegFlushKey(hKey); } RegCloseKey(hKey); ::SendMessage(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_WININICHANGE, 0xF2, 0); ::SendMessage(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_SYSCOLORCHANGE, 0, 0); } return (ERROR_SUCCESS == lRet); } When I call this function from an EXE, it works.. theme loads and screen is refreshed and theme is displayed properly: int WINAPI WinMain( HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPTSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) { VERIFY(LoadTheme(_T('\\Windows\\MyTheme.tsk")); } But when I do the same from within CESetup.dll to be used with CAB install (where MyTheme.tsk file is copied to \\Windows first), it fails: codeINSTALL_EXIT Install_Exit(HWND hwndParent, LPCTSTR pszInstallDir, WORD cFailedDirs, WORD cFailedFiles, WORD cFailedRegKeys, WORD cFailedRegVals, WORD cFailedShortcuts ) { VERIFY(LoadTheme(_T('\\Windows\\MyTheme.tsk")); } The functions do not fail, I check that theme file exists.. all seems to succeed, the screen even flickers briefly, most likely in response to WM_WININICHANGE and WM_SYSCOLORCHANGE, but theme does not show. Does anyone know why? I'm using eVC++ 4.0 and its CabWiz.exe tool. Application runs on WM5 device. Lisa Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118201
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    - Distinguish Palm vs Pocket PC over Infrared? Does anyone know how to distinguish between a Palm and a Pocket PC over IR? During discovery, I can get the IRDA_DEVICE_INFO structure and it has device name (which is user configurable -- won't work). But it also has irdaDeviceHints1 and irdaDeviceHints2. Are these standard or fairly standard on PDA's? I get 0x82 and 0x20 for Palms and 0x92, 0x24 for two Pocket PC's and 0x82, 0x24 for the other PPC. Thanks -Brian Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118199
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    - Visual Basic Embedded and Win CE v5.0 Is it possible to run an app written with VBE on a CE 5.0 PPC? Is the VB-runtime available only for CE 2003? Little confused :( Stefan Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118198
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    - Ringer Vibrate On/Off Hello I search a solution how can switch the Ringer to ON/OFF (like in the CommManager)? Is this with Compact Framework or API or Registry-Entry possible? Thank you very much regards Roger Tag: How to code a screensaver on WM5 Tag: 118189

Hi,
How to write a screensaver on WM5, any help is appricated!

Regards
Tomasy

Re: How to code a screensaver on WM5 by tamberg

tamberg
Fri Jan 26 09:53:01 CST 2007

LCD screens usually don't need screen savers as they do not "burn in".
However, to detect hibernating of a device you could use the WM5
notification API.

Regards,
tamberg

On Jan 18, 10:11 am, "Thomasy" <s...@herculesoft.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> How to write a screensaver on WM5, any help is appricated!
>
> Regards
> Tomasy

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