Popup/Notification dialogue links

[farseer]

Hi,
Some notification dialogues on Pocket PC devices contain an html link
(i.e. Connectivity bubble notification). Is it possible to
programmatically :

-set focus that that link
-change it's appearance
-programmatically click it

if i can find it, i am sure i can send the necessary messages to do all
the above, but finding it is my problem.
Using spy, i can't really see anything that would identify these
links...nothing as a child of "WebView" window at least.

 

[Alex Yakhnin]

Yes, it's possible:


http://groups.google.com/group/micr...ompactframework&rnum=2&hl=en#aefbbf94ab64a229

 

[farseer]

Thank you Alex. These examples show handling of a user created
Notification. What i would like to do is be able to handle the
existing notifications (the ones created by shell32 or cprog.exe
processes). What i am able to do so far is i am able to find the
WebView window/control that represents these bubbles. I am also able
to find the buttons on these bubbles. But it seems as though the html
links themselves (like the ones on the Connectivity bubble) are not
enumerable, perhaps they are not normal windows? Yet, on my device, if
you use the keyboard tab and Enter keys, it is possible to click them.
You won't be able to visibly see that you have set focus on a html
link, but you can 'click' them using thise method. If i can do this, i
have hope that i can programmatically find those links, change there
appearance a bit to show focus, and them programmatically click them.

 

[Alex Yakhnin]

May I ask why you want to do this?

 

[farseer]

well, it appears some pocket PC phones are pda's first, and phone
second.
This means one handed operation is not fully supported.
I have been writing some utilities to help add one handed functionality
and to add some missing functionality one would expect in a phone.
I have made great progress with this...you'd be supprised how much you
miss the simplest things when they are not there.
One of the things i would like to do to allow me one handed support is
to handle notification bubbles using the hardware keys on the device.
What i can do right now is dismiss the bubbles using my dpad, and that
it self has been a HUGE 'nice' for me, as it means when i am on a call
or in an application and one these bubbles pop up, i can quickly
dismiss it and bring focus back to what i was doing before.
Now, i'd like to take it one step further and be able to tab thru the
buttons and links and select one by using the dpad. i have code that
can do the tabbing thru the buttons that are children of the HTMLView
control, but i can't seem to find the links.

thanks much for any assistance you can provide...

 

[farseer]

any further thoughts on this? i'd think if one can tab to an html
link, one should be able to find it and set focus to it?

 

[farseer]

ping...