Visual Studio 2005 Software Input Panel Icon disappears

Visual Studio 2005 Software Input Panel Icon disappears

• Coriolan

  To me it sounds like that when you upgraded your project to VS2005 - it kinda messed up the designer generated code and additionally the behavior of the library itself changed. I think you've to go thru your code and the documentation of SIP to really figure out what is going on.

  Manav

  
  
  

• Lenine

  Friend WithEvents ipSIP As Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms.InputPanel

  and in InitializeComponent

  Me.ipSIP = New Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms.InputPanel

  Basically I have various text boxes which show the SIP when they get focus and hide it afterwards using the following GotFocus and LostFocus event handlers

  Private mbActionGotFocus As Boolean = True

  Private Sub GotFocusShowSIP(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles txtAuth.GotFocus, txtCardName.GotFocus, txtCardNo.GotFocus, txtCCV.GotFocus, txtChequeNo.GotFocus, txtIssue.GotFocus, txtNewNote.GotFocus, txtOrderNumber.GotFocus, txtPaymentValue.GotFocus, txtPONumbers_Value.GotFocus, txtPrintName.GotFocus

       If mbActionGotFocus Then ShowSIP(ipSIP)

  End Sub

  Private Sub LostFocusHideSIP(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles txtAuth.LostFocus, txtCardName.LostFocus, txtCardNo.LostFocus, txtCCV.LostFocus, txtChequeNo.LostFocus, txtIssue.LostFocus, txtNewNote.LostFocus, txtOrderNumber.LostFocus, txtPaymentValue.LostFocus, txtPONumbers_Value.LostFocus, txtPrintName.LostFocus

       HideSIP(ipSIP)

  End Sub

  and in another module ShowSIP/ HideSIP

  Public Sub ShowSIP(ByRef SIP As Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms.InputPanel)

       Try

            ' On Phil's Xda II this causes an exception

            SIP.Enabled = True

       Catch ex As Exception

       End Try

  End Sub

  Public Sub HideSIP(ByRef SIP As Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms.InputPanel)

       Try

            ' On Phil's Xda II this causes an exception

            If SIP.Enabled Then

                 SIP.Enabled = False

            End If

       Catch ex As Exception

       End Try

  End Sub

  The code works fine most times and I can't quite pinpoint when it doesn't but sometimes the software input panel icon is not visible on this form.

  
  

• AshishMalhotra

  I

  I have a big problem after show a simple dialog msgbox("Hello!") the Input Panel Icon disappears. Why how can i solve this.

  The link dont work.

  Thanks

  
  

• E.Herzog

  Are you using CF 2 Service Pack 1 It's SIP icon is buggy and disappears when a message box is closed
  
  Check my post in this thread, hopefully this will fix your problem
  
  http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=969014&SiteID=1
  
  Jarod
  
  

• yzhang12

  I inherited this Pocket PC project from someone else and what they had done was declare a new instance of the SIP on each form.

  Refering to http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/programming/netcf/cffaq/default.aspx section How do I use the inputpanel component it says that Multiple forms should share the same InputPanel object.

  This morning I've changed the project to do this. It's early days yet but the SIP icon hasn't diasppeared yet. So maybe this is the solution.

  
  

• sticksnap

  Manav,

  Which SIP documentation do you recommend that I look at

  In addition there is very little designer generated code for the SIP and I started this post after spending considerable time in the debugger and looking at the way I use SIP in my code. I'm not sure what to try next ... that's why I'm asking for help.

  Jim.

  
  

• Horst Klein

  I'm glad you finally found the solution! Way to go my friend :)

  Manav

  
  
  

• WinFormsUser13232

  Can you post your source code or designer created code

  Manav

  
  
  

• TomWardill

  Essentially you need to look at the differences specific to SIP between 1.0 and 2.0 version of the compact framework. I'm sure you've spent enough time on debugging this.

  Manav

  
  
  

• Kasracer

  I have tried debugging and I'm none the wiser.

  There is no exception it's just that the software input panel icon disappears.

  I haven't tried using the device emulator. I have had the problem using a Dell Axim x50 and an O2 Xda IIs both running Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition. The Dell using version 4.21.1088(build 14260.2.0.5) and the O2 using version 4.21.1088(Build 14132).

  The problem is that I can't reproduce the problem to order. It just happens sometimes. Sometimes it happens when I'm running from Visual Studio connected to one of the above devices and sometimes it happens when I've installed a cabbed version of my application.

  This Pocket PC application was originally developed using Visual Studio 2003 and I've recently converted it to Visual Studio 2005. I ended up creating new 2005 projects for the application and its components as straight conversion gave me too many problems.

  The Software input panel definitely behaves differently under 2005. I had to recode parts of my application which previously had successfully collapsed(set enabled to false) the SIP. My Pocket PC application has several forms which I cache the first time they are created and subsequently reuse (as form creation takes a long time). Some of the forms have a SIP defined and some don't. I've also noticed that the SIP icon is visible on some forms which don't even have the control defined.

  
  

• Andrew J

  Have you tried debugging Do you see the same behavior on device emulator What is the exception you're receiving

  Manav

  
  
  
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