Thursday, March 30, 2006
Input Tips For Your Windows Mobile Device
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "ARTICLE" @ 09:00 AM
http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/03/27/562162.aspx
"I'm an input junkie. I type in Dvorak on the desktop. I wrote an app to control the desktop mouse with an XBox 360 gamepad. I wrote all of the input bus drivers for the Sega Dreamcast. I once wrote a driver for a chording data puck because I thought the future of mobile device input was an input system that only someone as crazy as me would adopt.... What follows are a series of tips and tricks for Windows Mobile devices that you don't have to be crazy to appreciate. However, understand that the drivers that control input are written by the OEMs that create these devices. And we don't require that they follow every input quirk to the letter. It's possible that some of these things will work on some devices and not on others."
Another one that Mike didn't mention if you are on some Pocket PC's and you want to terminate the GPRS connection, press and hold the "END CALL" button. It works on my K-Jam (though sometimes you have to do it several times) and previously on my PDA2K. Also, from just about any screen, pressing "END CALL" will take you to the Today Screen. Of course, don't try that one while you are on a call. :wink:
"I'm an input junkie. I type in Dvorak on the desktop. I wrote an app to control the desktop mouse with an XBox 360 gamepad. I wrote all of the input bus drivers for the Sega Dreamcast. I once wrote a driver for a chording data puck because I thought the future of mobile device input was an input system that only someone as crazy as me would adopt.... What follows are a series of tips and tricks for Windows Mobile devices that you don't have to be crazy to appreciate. However, understand that the drivers that control input are written by the OEMs that create these devices. And we don't require that they follow every input quirk to the letter. It's possible that some of these things will work on some devices and not on others."
Another one that Mike didn't mention if you are on some Pocket PC's and you want to terminate the GPRS connection, press and hold the "END CALL" button. It works on my K-Jam (though sometimes you have to do it several times) and previously on my PDA2K. Also, from just about any screen, pressing "END CALL" will take you to the Today Screen. Of course, don't try that one while you are on a call. :wink:
