Keyboard control

[RobertH]

Does anyone know how to control the keyboard from a Windows Mobile 5.0, .Net
CF 2.0 application. I need to be able to disable the keyboard for most of
the application since the target audience is less than sophisticated with
regard to technology, to put it kindly, and if it is popping up in their
face seemingly randomly, it will freak them out. On the other hand there are
a few times where I will need to display it to them, either for alpha input
or numeric, so ideally I would need to know how to control it to that
degree, that is to show either the keyboard or the key pad.

I have looked at the stuff from opennetcf.org, which I am using throughout
the application, but found nothing there.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

 

[Daniel Moth]

If you are talking about the Software Input Panel, look at the properties
and events of the InputPanel control from the Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms
namespace/assembly. That helps you manipulate the SIP. For the SIP icon not
to display you can remove the mainmenu from your form, but that's drastic.
To show numeric versus text variant, AlexF has a hack that I link to from
here:
http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2005/08/show-numeric-sip-for-wince-devices.html

Cheers
Daniel