SIP icon location

Hello,

on new WM5 devices, the SIP icon appears to be a bit more clever than before. If an old application is executed, it will appear in the bottom right corner of the screen. On other occasions it will appear in the bottom centre of the menu.
This behaviour might produce decent results for most cases, but causes troubles in an application that i am assigned to.

Does anybody know if there is a way to configures the SIP icon to show up in the bottom right corner of the screen I do not want to move the MS_SIPBUTTON window by force, but a more decent API that configures the SIP control to show up the old way.

Thanks in advance,

Peter Vrenken

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SIP icon location

Linda2270
Thanks allot!

For those interested: It even stays there when the Menu is assigned a null value.

Greetings,

Peter Vrenken
Sapineni
Yes it does.
PeacError
If you add at least three menuitems when you design the form, the SIP is positioned at the bottom right corner. If you then delete some of them in the Load event the SIP stays at the bottom right corner...:
Menu.MenuItems.Remove(menuItem3);
No an elegant solution but it works.

Lars
ogagnol
I am still having troubles with the SIP Icon location. At first, the solution given above seemed to work, but on the long term didn't.

The problem now popped up in a second project, with a completely different codebase. In this second project the SIP icon should be located in the bottom right corner of the screen, next to a toolbar and a mainmenu. The problem is that when a specific tabpage is activated, the SIP icon shows up as the WM5 variant: Covering the main menu and Toolbar!!!! The weird thing is that this happens just once. When the specific tabpage is shown a second time the inputpanel shows up as it should (bottom-right corner).

This is awful because this way the users cannot get access to some specific important features of the application.
I’ve tried the things below:
- Added and removed MenuItems to the mainmenu.
- Added and removed Buttons to the toolbar.
- Added textbox to the input panel (the tabpage didn’t have any input controls).
Is there anybody that has experienced the same problem I am getting more and more concerned that this is not easily fixed.

Thanks in advance,

Peter Vrenken
programmer01
Does it stay this way if i delete all of the menuitems
Irina777
Hi, all

I am facing a strange problem regarding the SIP Button in WM 5.0 device, the SIP icon(Button) hides from the CommandBar after a mesage box is displayed.

And after opening another form or change the Display mode the SIP button is visible again.

This is happening at both position of SIP button(centre as well as on the right corner).

If anybody else is facing this problem or has the solution for this do reply.

Thanks.

regards

Amish
GarethJ - MSFT
Ok, gotit....

we've finally fixed the annoing problem with the SIP icon appearing in the wrong form. I cannot say why it worked, but recreating the toolbar seemed to push the SIP icon right back in it's corner.

Below are the lines of (C#) code that where (for our specific case) necessary to fix our problem. Maybe they are also good fixing someone else's problems:

this.SuspendLayout();

this.toolBar.Buttons.Clear();
this.toolBar.ImageList = App.Gui.NavButtons.Images;
this.toolBar.Buttons.Add(this.tbtnRoom);
this.toolBar.Buttons.Add(this.tbtnItem);
this.toolBar.Buttons.Add(this.tbtnAssignment);
this.toolBar.Buttons.Add(this.tbtnSubItem);
this.toolBar.Buttons.Add(this.btnTime);

this.ResumeLayout();

Ow yes, the lines are in a method that belongs to a Form instance.

Greetings,
Peter Vrenken
SIP icon location

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