Windows Mobile 2005, keyboard

Windows Mobile 2005, keyboard

• Rachita

  Have you considered writing a Custom Soft Input Panel (SIP)
  This would allow you to enter cyrilical letters directly.

  See: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2005/02/10/370355.aspx

  
  
  

• sigipa

  I use keyboard hooks on Windows Pocket PC 2003 and Windows Mobile 5. The hook is in my invisible, out of focus window. I can also send a WM_CLOSE message to this same invisible, out of focus window and it closes the program.

  I don't know if sending a WM_CLOSE is different to sending any other keyboard event. It most likely is.

  
  

• Dale17677

  Despite its name NotSupportedException is never thrown because the API is not supported. This exception signifies that the marshaller was not able to marshal arguments. In this case I suggest that you add [StructLayout(Layoutkid.Sequetnial)] to the definitions of keyboardInfo and KBDLLHOOKSTRUCT
  
  

• orouit

  I have already used the sample given in the link above but I get "not supported exeception" on the line where SetWindowsHookEx is called. I executed it in Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocke PC emulator. I assume this means Hook is not supported. Can u provide any info on this.
  

• testqh

  Thanks for ur reply.

  I am developing managed application in .Net CF 2.0. In one of your posts

  http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-1298033.php,

  I found that

  NotSupported exception is typically caused by an incorrect P/Invoke definition, such as using "long" type or complex
  structures.In case of SetWindowsHookEx it is caused by you attempting to pass a delegate to the P/Invoked function - this is not supported on Compact Framework. The workarounds are either place hook code into unmanaged code or use the approach I described here:
  http://www.alexfeinman.com/callbacks/Callbacks.htm

  The page Callbacks.htm is not found.

   

  
  

• The Tick

  I think you may add PreTranslateMessage，when Key was pressed, send message to background window, let background window to process this message.
  

• Michael Klucher - MSFT

  Why isn't the keyboard hook working It still has to be in a program with a message loop, basically a windowed program. You can force this program to run in the background by using ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_HIDE) . You can then use SendMessage to send messages to the approriate window. If you don't have the handle for the window, use FindWindow .

  Is that the sort of stuff you needed to know

  
  

• Bill Gates II

  But I have read that hooks are considered as a privileged API call in Windows Mobile 5.0. BTW have u used SetWindowsHookEx and if yes is it a global hook
  

• Sweenie

  The window will not receive keyboard messages unless it has focus. It won't be able to get focus unless it is visible.

  Hooks are not supported under Windows CE

  
  
  

• NathanInNashville

  Yes, this is a global hook. A sample can be found here: http://www.infusionblogs.com/blogs/ayakhnin/archive/2006/03/05/399.aspx

  On WM 5.0 this API is considered a privileged API (see http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=111354&SiteID=1)

  
  
  
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