how can i associate my app to one button?

how can i associate my app to one button?

• sbuster

  H, Lyon,
  
  Thanks for your reply.... But I dont quite understand..... How creating a proecess can be related with one button launch application Could you please be more specific
  
  Thanks a lot
  
  
  

• lissbpp

  Sounds like you need a service running in the background. You can activate a service by using ActivateService:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/wcecomm5/html/wce50lrfactivateservice.asp

  Just to give you my 2 cents overriding a button on your cellphone is probably not a good idea. Other programs may be relying on that button and so if they need it, your app would always launch as well as performing the standard operation. This would lead to a very bad user experiance. Sort of like how popups are a bad user experience for IE.

  
  
  

• M. Nicholas

  Try using Create Process:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/createprocess.asp

  
  
  

• jdang

  Sorry for expressing myself wrongly.... I understand what you meant now: launching the app from a different app. But my question is if it is possible to launch my app by just push one button (the app is not active before and this is the first time push it). Like how you make the voicemail dialing from long pressing "#1" in the key pad.
  
  Sorry for the confusion... Hope you can answer this..... Many thanks!
  
  
  

• giko

  Check out the reg key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Keys and the shell function SHSetAppKeyWndAssoc.

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/wceshellui5/html/wce50lrfgeneralshellregistrysettings.asp

  
  
  

• PatMcHargue

  You can't launch an application without creating a process, this is because an application is a process. You can't create an application on a thread it has to be it's own process. Maybe I misunderstood your original post. I thought you wanted to press a button in the first application and launch a secondary application. Is this right
  
  
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