Detecting hardware keyboards on Pocket PC 2003 Second Edition devices

re: Detecting hardware keyboards on Pocket PC 2003 Second Edition devices

Mike Dimmick — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 21:20:00 GMT

So, GetKeyboardStatus() isn't reliable, then?

re: Detecting hardware keyboards on Pocket PC 2003 Second Edition devices

Neil Enns — Sun, 04 Jul 2004 16:22:00 GMT

Don't know, I can ask on Tuesday. When I checked with our Shell developers though this is how they said to check.

re: Detecting hardware keyboards on Pocket PC 2003 Second Edition devices

Neil Enns — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 02:24:00 GMT

GetKeyboardStatus() doesn't report changes in added/removed keyboards. It only covers whether built-in keyboards are enabled. We'd like to fix that going forward, but for now the reliable way is to check the registry entry.

Neil

re: Detecting hardware keyboards on Pocket PC 2003 Second Edition devices

mbsingh — Wed, 31 May 2006 19:51:30 GMT

what are the native PPC keyboard drivers? the Samsung i730 does not seem to have an FN key that can be detected.

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sync — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:09:51 GMT

Is there any better solution in CF 2.0 (WM 5.0) to detect hardware keyboard and detects events when it is enabled?

re: Detecting hardware keyboards on Pocket PC 2003 Second Edition devices

keypads — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:01:48 GMT

Neil,

A suggestion: there should be another value (or simply have HasKeyboard be '2') for devices with both a keypad on the front, and with a slideout keyboard; effectively this would mean that "it has a keyboard only when in the landscape orientation". This would be helpful on the upcoming Vox device and other PPC PE devices that have a keypad and a keyboard.

re: Detecting hardware keyboards on Pocket PC 2003 Second Edition devices

blackjack — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:24:26 GMT

What's even better is the Samsung/Cingular BlackJack has this registry entry, but HasKeyboard is set to 0 (zero) instead of 1 (one).

re: Detecting hardware keyboards on Pocket PC 2003 Second Edition devices

David — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:06:51 GMT

I had the same problem of trying to detect if the device has a keyboard or not and did this work around:

My application has an "setup" file that supplies various parameters that are used to drive logic. I added a parameter that populates a checkbox that says: "NO SIP" which means "disallow" use of the SIP if checked. Naturally the default is "unChecked". When the user checks the box I post a message box warning them that the software input keyboard has been disabled, please uncheck the "NO SIP" checkbox on the setup screen.

Cheers,

David