Re: WinCE 5 - clone catalog item again - unable to do via PB ?
- From: "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT no instrument no spam DOT com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 17:22:23 -0700
The developers had to add support for Cloning to each element that they
wanted to have be clonable. They didn't get to all of them (or even many of
them). If that's the case, you're going to have to do it manually, so a) be
really, really sure that you *have* to do this (do NOT do this because the
marketing guys think it would be cool if the File Explorer had your company
logo on the title bar--you'll never get back the weeks you're going to spend
on this), b) use the Sysgen Capture tool (this is covered in the CE5 help),
to capture a set of build files that will be the basis for your clone, c)
copy those captured files, along with the source for the component you are
cloning, to a suitable location, and start modifying the build files to
actually make it build. Make sure that you don't dive into changing the
source code, resources, etc. yet! You want to have code that you can be
reasonably certain should build, if you can get the build files configured
correctly.
Having cloned, let's see, NETUI, SHELL, and RDP for our devices, which have
strange screen shapes and needed dialogs reworked, figure on several weeks
to a month of work and learning a whole lot about how the build system works
for each item you're trying to clone.
Paul T.
"Sergei R" <rusakov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,
it was enough said not to modify the code under PUBLIC tree. Even if some
of us occasionally do, some day tried to clone just a subtree as an
example of good doing (as opposed to worng doing, which is directly alter
the needed source code under whatever tree it is).
So the Help in PB 5
[ms-help://MS.WindowsCE.500/wceosdev5/html/wce50tskCloningCatalogItem.htm
] says that
......
Create or open a workspace containing an OS design you want to modify.
In the Catalog, select the Catalog item you want to clone into your OS
design and then, from the context menu, choose Add to OS Design.
The item is added to your OS design as an user-specified Catalog item.
1.. In the Workspace window, on the OSDesignView tab, select the Catalog
item you added and then perform one of the following:
2.. From the context menu, select Clone Catalog Item.
3.. From the Platform menu, select Clone Catalog Item.
The Clone Libraries dialog box appears.
Why is the menu item in both cases 2 and 3 is grayed out ? Yes, for some
items in OSDesignView it is not grayed out, but for several ones - it is
grayed. For example {Windows XP-like Sample Skin} or {Standard Shell}.
Does it mean these items aren't supported to be cloned [via PB] ? Perhaps
anyone have seen this before, right ?
Thank you for your consideration
Sergei R
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