[news.eclipse.technology.ercp] Re: eSWT on Win Mobile 5.0

["Mark Rogalski" <rogalski@xxxxxxxxxx>]

WM5 supports 2 softkeys. So when the "softkey label bar" is displayed you 
see the virtual keyboard icon in the middle of the bar. We've had a great 
deal of trouble supporting softkeys on WM5 because MS chose to make the 
label information only settable from within resources and did not provide an 
API to set the labels. This is ok for native apps where all the labels are 
predetermined. But in eRCP, we can run any number of applications within the 
same process and thus we need the ability to change the labels on the fly. 
Therefore, we have been sticking with using the Menubar for Commands as we 
did for WM2003.

If anyone knows (or has any ideas) how to work-around this limitation, 
please let me know.

                        Mark



"Jim Duffy" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:e9115b$tsn$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Ah! ok, that did the trick.
>
> A few observations when looking at the 'eSWT Demo' on WinMob 5 emulator
>
> 1.    Tabbed panes are being displayed on the top of the screen rather 
> then the bottom which is default for Windows Mobile (multi page dialog). 
> Not sure if positioning is up to the VM or developers can explicity 
> specify tab locations.
>
> 2.    the very bottom toolbar looks a little bit differently than the 
> native one. in WinMob 5, the 'Keyboard' button is positioned in the moddle 
> of the bar. In the demo, it is showing up on the far right. Also, when the 
> keyboard is hidden, the button and toolbar color are a light blue. When 
> the keyboard is displayed, the keyboard button only shows up in the darker 
> blue that the native toolbar is in, however the rest of the toolbar 
> remains a lighter blue.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> "Matt Lavin" <matt_lavin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:e90pgf$tpi$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> The j9 console will appear when running j9.exe no matter what
>> application is used.  To run a J9 instance without the console
>> appearing, you can execute j9w.exe instead.
>>
>> Jim Duffy wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I would like to develop a Java app for Windows Mobile 5.0 and want to 
>>> use
>>> eSWT as the GUI toolkit.
>>>
>>> Downloaded the M9 build of eRCP but it only seems to contain a folder 
>>> for
>>> 'win32' and 'wm2003'.
>>>
>>> Just for kicks I tried out the 'wm2003' install in the WM5 emulator.
>>>
>>> 1. Installed IBM J9 PPRO 1.1 to the root of the device e.g: /J9
>>>
>>> 2. Modified the .lnk files in the 'wm2003' folder to reflect changed 
>>> paths.
>>> j9foun-demo.lnk now reads:
>>> 255#"\J9\PPRO11\bin\j9.exe" -jcl:foun11 -cp \eRCP\startup.jar
>>> org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main -application
>>> org.eclipse.ercp.swt.demo.eSWTDemoApp -console
>>>
>>> 3. Copied entire 'eRCP' folder to the root of WM5 emulator e.g: /eRCP
>>>
>>> 4. Launched the 'j9foun-demo.lnk' file.
>>>
>>> Result::
>>>
>>> The 'J9 Console' application appears instead. I tried to remove the
>>> '-console' argument in the .lnk files but still get the same result.
>>>
>>> Can anyone tell me if eSWT is yet compatible with Windows Mobile 5 or is
>>> there something wrong with how I'm launching the demo applications..
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help,
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
>
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