HOWTO: Activate the PsPC Keyboard from a VBCE Application

• Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 6.0, version 1.0

SUMMARY

This article illustrates how to call the SipShowIM API to activate the virtual keyboard on a Palm-size PC device running Windows CE 2.11 using the Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 6.0.

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Step by Step Example

1. Start a new Windows CE PsPC Project in Visual Basic.



2. Place two CommandButtons on Form1.



3. Paste the following code into Form1:




Option Explicit
Declare Function SipShowIM Lib "coredll" (ByVal flags As Long) As Long

Private Sub Form_Load()
    Command1.Caption = "Show Keyboard"
    Command2.Caption = "Hide Keyboard"
    Form1.Caption = "SipShowIM Sample"
End Sub

Private Function Showkeyboard() As Long
    Showkeyboard = SipShowIM(1)
End Function

Private Function Hidekeyboard() As Long
    Hidekeyboard = SipShowIM(0)
End Function

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Showkeyboard
End Sub

Private Sub Command2_Click()
    Hidekeyboard
End Sub 

4. Run the project and click the CommandButtons to show and hide the virtual keyboard.

REFERENCES

Q209014 HOWTO: Call Windows CE APIs from VBCE

Additional query words: vbce vbce6 wce sipinfo SHSipInfo

Keywords : kbToolkit kbVBp600 kbGrpVB kbWinCE211 kbDSupport
Version : WINDOWS:1.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto