SIP Button showing in a fullscreen WM5 app

[slaught]

Hi,

I writing an app to be run on Windows Mobile 5 using C# and the .Net
Compact Framework 2.0 which hides both the start menu bar at the top of
the screen and the button bar / sip bar at the bottom of the screen in
order to maximise the amount of screen space available. This has been
achieved using the SSHFullScreen function found in Aygshell.dll, and
seems to work fine.

However, I also need keyboard input from the SIP panel, but when I
enable the panel through Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms.InputPanel by
setting its enabled property to true, the sip button shows up in the
middle of the screen at the bottom.

I Dont want this button to show up on activating the SIP as I use my
own button for this purpose, how can I prevent this from happening?

Thanks.

 

[Fabien]

Hi,

You should hide the SIP button :
int hSipButton = FindWindow("MS_SIPBUTTON", "MS_SIPBUTTON");
ShowWindow(hSipButton , SW_HIDE);

(import with a dllimport FindWindow and ShowWindow.

BR


Fabien Decret
Windows Embedded Consultant


ADENEO (ADESET)
http://www.adeneo.adetelgroup.com/



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[slaught]

Hi, this seems to work, however if i call this as soon as showing the
panel:

inputPanel.Enabled = !inputPanel.Enabled;
IntPtr hwnd = FindWindowCE("MS_SIPBUTTON", "");
MoveWindow(hwnd, 0, 0, 0, 0, false);

then the button doesnt get hidden (im assuming because the SIP window
doesnt get created in time). I've worked around this by hiding the SIP
button in the inputPanels on enabledChanged event, but this causes the
SIP button to flicker briefly.

Any other ideas on how to work around this?
Thanks