Re: Internet Explorer/wireless problem

Perfect.

Paul T.

"Ray Greene" <raygr@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:15:40 -0700, "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space
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"Ray Greene" <raygr@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a situation where a small industrial PC with a touch screen and
no keyboard running Windows CE connects to a web server via wireless.
Because the screen is very small Internet Explorer needs to run
without a menu bar. The PC is mobile and sometimes gets out of
wireless range, which causes an error page to come up in IE.

Problem is, without a menu bar there is no way to go back, reload the
page or close IE. The only way around this is to reboot the PC. That
only takes a few seconds but there has to be a more elegant way to do
it. I'm looking for a single button-press solution.

I tried a few things but I'm not having much success so far.

I thought about running a script from the Start menu to close IE, but
it doesn't run VBScript so I'm assuming scripting isn't supported, and
while batch files are supported they have no way of closing IE. Maybe
there is a way of displaying the menu bar again in IE from a batch
file?
I also thought of customising the default error page but I believe it
is built into a dll.

It's up to the OEM to decide what scripting is supported. JScipt is also
a
posibility, along with VBScript. I don't think that there's a way to
redisplay the menu bar from a script, though.

So, you can't modify the default error page, you can't add anything to the
device image? Then you can't fix the problem, I'd say. My thought would
be
to have a software keyboard on the device (SIP), and, from that, you could
hit F5 to refresh the page, Backspace to go back, or otherwise control the
browser from the "keyboard", but, obviously, that takes space. I think
you've painted yourself into a corner. You have *no* keys on the device
at
all?

Turns out there was room for software to be installed. I'm not sure
how, maybe it reserves space but doesn't report it as free?
I haven't had much experience with these things.

Anyway the other guy on the project found a nice little "kiosk"
application that does exactly what we wanted so all's well.

--
Ray Greene


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