How To Activate the PsPC Keyboard from a VBCE/eVB Application (247963)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 6.0
This article was previously published under Q247963

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 either the Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 6.0 (VBCE) or eMbedded Visual Basic 3.0 (eVB).

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Step by Step Example

  1. Create a new Windows CE Palm-size PC project in either Visual Basic or eMbedded Visual Basic. Form1 is created by default.
  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.
NOTE: This sample only runs on the device and not in the emulator.

NOTE: On PocketPC and PocketPC2002 devices, the SIP can be displayed using the SIPVisible property of the Form object.

REFERENCES

209014 How To Call Windows CE APIs from VBCE

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:8/19/2005
Keywords:kbhowto kbToolkit KB247963
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