Re: Mobile2Market help...
From: Peter Foot [MVP] (feedback_at_nospam-inthehand.com)
Date: 05/06/04
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Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 08:23:38 +0100
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"Brian H" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I've been encouraged by a few users of a freeware app I've written to
> submit
> it to this Mobile2Market competition. I'm going over the requirements for
> logo certification a bit, and would like a few clarifications. First the
> easy one:
>
> 1. Since my app is mainly in the CF, the exemptions section seems to
> inficate that:
> - tooltips on the command bar are not needed.
> - it is ok for CF apps to have a different help mechanism and display a
> way
> for the user to invoke this help.
>
> Regarding the help, I simply CreateProcess an iexplore instance to disaply
> a
> help.html file. Would this be allowable?
>
The CF exemptions would indicate yes. However you could still use the
Windows CE peghelp format for your help, but just supply your own way of
invoking it with CreateProcess and the peghelp.exe viewer. You can then add
your help into the master contents list too. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnppc2k2/html/WinCEHelp.asp
For more details
> 2. Fonts. I allow the user to configure the fonts the application uses
> when
> drawing info to the screen. The docs state that when displayed, these
> options must appear in this order, left to right: style, font, font size,
> bold, italic, underline.
>
> In my case, I have several comboboxes on the left side of my form. One
> combobox for the font, and under it, one for font size. On the other
> right
> side of my form, I have the checkboxes for Bold, Italic, Underline, from
> top
> to bottom. It follows the "flavor" of the requirement but is not left to
> right. Is this ok? There's no logical way to make these options go left
> to
> right.
>
Looking at the Font dialog in Pocket Word, the options are arranged Font,
Size and the style flags are arranged vertically below. Perhaps you could
follow the format used there...
> 3. Clarification: when I show a dialog box for settings, I must keep the
> application name as the form's text property? (IE, myform.text = <app
> name>). It seems fairly strict against truncating the text, so I suppost
> "<app name>: Fonts" would likely be out.
>
If you want to provide a sub-heading, you should draw it on the form itself
and underline it with a single pixel line across the entire screen width
(see other settings dialogs for an example). The SDK contains the exact
specs for font, color and pixel dimensions required.
> 4. Finally, is there a way to execute code should the app be uninstalled?
> I have an option that allows the app to run for certain events
> (CeRunAppAtEvent) and, should the user elect this option, but then
> uninstall
> the app, I'm uncertain how this should get cleaned up. Right now I simply
> state, in the help, to make sure these options are disabled before
> uninstalling, but I'm not sure if this would pass logo certification.
>
The way to do this would be to write a custom setup dll to be placed in your
cab files. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_evtuv/html/etgrfsetupdllfilesfordevices.asp
You can place code in the Uninstall_Init and Uninstall_Exit to perform
cleanup operations when your ap is uninstalled. This setup.dll must be
written in native code as it must expose specific functions. ce_setup.h
defines the function prototypes required.
Peter
-- Peter Foot Windows Embedded MVP OpenNETCF.org Senior Advisor www.inthehand.com | www.opennetcf.org
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