Mobile Shell 2.0 brought me to the idea:
It would be great to see preview of all running aplications by sliding from the top bar to the center of the screen (similar to Mobile Shell 2.0).
And then, by sliding left or right you could select the application you want to maximize or by sliding to the top right you could exit this selected application.
Sorry for my poor english, I hope everyone understands what I mean.
Is it possible to programm such a taskmanager? I have no programming skills.
What will be the advantage to tapping on the cross and then see what programs are running?
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Hi again,
the application which I'm programming shall run in kiosk mode. Currently, I have a quite simple realization by hiding the shell parts (Taskbar, Start-Icon and SIP button), and by resizing the main window to screen size.
That works quite fine, I've additionally deactivated all of the hardware buttons.
But: The application shall access the device's phone application. Every time the phone application is active, there appears the Start-Icon and other items of the standard WCE screen.
How could I avoid this problem?
I'm working on the ARTEMIS device, Windows Mobile 5.0 and I'm programming in native c++ (Visual Studio 2005)
thanks,
Günther
Quick question:
I assume you use SHFullScreen API to hide the taskbar and stuff.
At what point do you call it?
According to documentation and from my experience you need to call it after your window becomes foreground so doing it from WM_CREATE may be too soon. Try returning the HWND from Create window and using it to call the SHFullScreen isntead of WM_CREATE handler.
You can also, move/resize/hide navigation bar window and check it in loop.
Use a Remote Spy++ to determine windows classes.
@levenum: Yes, I'm using the SHFullScreen API. Currently, I'm calling it after pressing a button to toggle full screen mode. However, this doesn't prevent the application to show the taskbar after the internal Phone application has been used. Furthermore, after using the phone, my application automatically swiches back to reduced screen mode in any case.
@THEVK: Well, this also sounds reasonable - I could already acquire the handle of the taskbar and hide/disable the window. Now I still have to think about bringing the phone application or the contacts application to the background when they aren't needed anymore. But I think I could do that by simply adding some buttons to my main application and placing them at the location of the taskbar...
thanks and cheers,
Günther
Taskbar have a code, which bring it on top always, IMO.
I think, the best solution to hide taskbar window and place your custom window there.
disable kiosk
hi a customer brings a windows mobile phone which is in a kiosk mode and he don't know the password for it and i can not take it back again is there any way that i can disable kiosk mode??
It sounds more like the phone is locked by a password than that it is a actually in "kiosk mode".
In such case there is a high possibility the reason the customer does not have the password is because it is not his phone.
But if that is not the case (and I hope so) then you should give details about what kind of phone it is (exact make and model) and describe the kiosk application that is running.
Perhaps then someone will have the answer for you.
Anyone can help me?
I want to create the background program which run in background, and change Interface of System Tray (Bar on Top) and Softkey Bar (Bar on bottom) with my own drawing!.
I want to be able to change the interface for all application, so even currently I am use the WM5 or WM2003 devices, it will look like WM6 interface!.
May be someone can help me with this problem!!!
I had an idea to hook the Tray window callback and softkey window callback but SetClassLong not support it. I only want to receive the WM_PAINT and WM_ERASEBKGND for this 2 window clases.
Hi amarullz,
Did you find a solution for skinning the top and bottom bars?
Looking for the exact same thing myself.
This program looks to have a lot of potential. With some customization this could be as nice as Mobile Shell....or so it seems....
http://www.teksoftco.com/index.php?section=skybox
Interesting,
Trying it now.
EDIT: tried it 3 mins - uninstalled immediately.. Too slow on my HTC Trinity..
The problem is that i can't delete it completely I hate when these things happen.
My initial thoughts....
TaskBar Replacement: Completely covers your existing start menu bar. You can only access your start menu with a hardware key, there is no way to know what tasks your are running. There is nothing to customise. You can access at all times.
Today Plugin: You can scroll with your finger or click on icon to activate scrolling. It is ok, you can today plugins and add shortcuts but that is it. You can only display icons and no text which sucks. There are no accessible options.
Menu Screen: Similar to Mobile shell but very slow. Scrolling left to right works but it not smooth and sometimes you start programs cause it bogs on my Titan.
Home Screen: Not too bad i guess, the graphics are not great but maybe customizible with regedits or file replacements. You can customize which program each icon to open certain programs.
I give this a 5 with mobile shell as a 8. I think it has potential but there is very little options and the animations are slow. I like that the taskbar menu and bottom bar are is accessible at all times (wish mobile shell did this) but could be a lot better. I think if I tried real hard I could make Wisbar Advance 2.0 work just like this program.
Like I mentioned in the title..I'm looking for a good task switcher that should be touch friendly and as close to windows alt tab and also a start menu replacement touch optimized like the one on diamond2. Please write your suggestions, it can be paid software too
i use this for my task switcher. I just mapped it to my long press key. it switches easily between apps, is skinnable, and you can easily close programs by just keeping your finger on a window (you can close as many windows at one time like this). http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=420220&highlight=gpslover
I use WkTASK, you can google it. It simulates the taskbar on windows desktop versions, which displays the running programs, and let you switch among them just by tapping on the icon.
And it's free.
Cmon man, search the threads and posts, the two best apps in my opinion are:
1. WKtask (I use it)
2. QuickTask (New release 2.8 just came out)
I would post the links, but yes, I''m an ass, search, your title of thread would have gave you an answer.
wktask is not too finger friendly and quicktask i cannot find anywhere...only solution for now seems task facade
Someone has ripped diamond2 start menu?
I think, it's not quicktask.
Quick menu 2.8:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=471861
Hey guys
I'm creating a Windows mobile 6.1 application and now i need a code that activates the backlight camera just by a buttonpress. Anybody that can help me, maybe supply me with a little exe or a code sample? I'm writing in C#...
Second, I wonder how to execute a command when the user of my application presses the X button in the right corner of the 6.1 system. I want a dialog popup menu to show and ask the user to quit or no. Hopefully you'll understand what i mean.
And last, i want to "disable" the visual keyboard icon shown between the mainmenu lists... i don't want it to show, if you get what i mean
Best regards
None of the currently 8000 peoples that can help me??
well, when I programmed some software with Object Pascal for WinMo 6.5 I spent hours trying to find some code to hide the keyboard icon, but I never solved the problem... But the icon depends on the program the application is started from. That means if you start it from File Explorer it is shown in the middle, if you start it from Total Commader it is shown in the lower left corner and if you start it from the start menu (shourtcut) it is hidden.
Maybe this is the same in C#...