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Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework (Core Reference)
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Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework (Core Reference)

by Andy Wigley, Stephen Wheelwright, Robert Burbidge, Rory MacLoed, Mark Sutton
January 2003
Intermediate to advanced
896 pages
19h 58m
English
Microsoft Press
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Handling Pocket PC Hardware Keys

A Pocket PC does not have a keyboard and relies on the use of a stylus and the SIP for most of the input from the user. A Pocket PC device does have some hardware keys available to it. Figure 4-9 shows a typical example of the hardware keys on a Pocket PC device.

Pocket PC device hardware keys.

Figure 4-9. Pocket PC device hardware keys.

It is possible to capture these keys in the KeyDown event that occurs when the user presses these keys.

The Compaq iPAQ has a central pad that generates the following five different types of key codes:

  • Keys.Up is triggered when the top of the pad is pressed.

  • Keys.Down is triggered when the bottom of the pad is pressed. ...

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