Main Menu on top instead of bottom.

[bdacko]

We have a program that was developed in C# and tested for Windows
Mobile with .net compact framework 2.0, but we would like it to be
usable in Windows CE also, but in Windows CE 5.0, the main menu is on
the top instead of the bottom like in Windows Mobile 5.x and 6.x.
Being on the top, it covers up some of the controls that would
normally be in that location. Unfortunately, I do not have a mobile
Windows CE device to experiment with. Is there a way to move the menu
to the bottom, so that it will match the Windows Mobile versions?

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

This has come up before. You can search the archives for the combined
experience of the group via GoogleGroups:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...ork/topics?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

or, for a more-thorough search, use Advanced Groups Search and target
microsoft.public.windowsce.*:

http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?q=&hl=en&

The basic answer is "no". You can detect which platform you're running on
and adjust your control placement, of course.

Paul T.

 

[Guest]

Not without manually drawing and creating the entire menu stuff yourself,
which would be a *lot* of work. A reasonable workaround to this bug (I
consider it a bug that the addition of a menu doesn't automatically push all
Form content down) is to put all controls inside a Panel on the Form. If
you're on a non-WinMo device then simply move the panel down the height of
the menu. On WinMo, put it at 0,0.

 

[bdacko]

Thank you both very much for your answers. I tried looking around a
bit, but maybe I was just searching for the wrong keywords!

I really like the idea of putting everything on a panel and then
moving the panel. I'm going to try this out!

Thank you!