Re: Mobile2Market help...
From: Brian H (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 05/06/04
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Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 08:49:39 -0700
Thanks Peter,
Great info. Regarding the clean-up of user settings, I'm going to start
work on that because, frankly, it's cleanest way to do things. However, do
you know if it's required for certification? If it requires native code in
this fashion, I'd guess not, but I'm not entirely sure. I'd prefer to add
this functionality later.
Thanks again,
Brian
"Peter Foot [MVP]" <feedback@nospam-inthehand.com> wrote in message
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> Answers inline:-
>
> "Brian H" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:%238FStoyMEHA.2468@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > 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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