Comments on: Custom soft keys for Notifications

By: MathiasF

MathiasF — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:42:17 +0000

Hi!
I need my notification to make the device vibrate and make a sound until the user gives a response.
Is there a way to do that with your code?
Thanks!

By: jis

jis — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:00:59 +0000

Hi Cristopher,

This article is very helpful. I have a doubt, hope you can help me out. I need to show the notification from a thread running as a service in WM. It throws an error : ‘Control.Invoke must be used to interact with controls created on a separate thread.’ But Notification class is not ‘Control’, it is a Component. Is there any way to show up the notification from a background thread from an app which doesnt have a UI form.

Thanks & Regards,
Jis.

By: Matthias

Matthias — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:27:41 +0000

Hi.
This class is just great. Thank you very much.
I have only one small problem. When I click “Dismiss” the NotificationSoftKey EventHandler is called.
In the function I need to identify which notification was dismissed (the text in the notification or an index….).
Is there a way to identify that in the Eventhandler function?
Thank you very much in advance.
Matthias

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:59:56 +0000

Hi Chris,
Using your Notificationwithsoftkeys and running into an issue (Dev environment = VS 2008 and deploying to Windows Mobile 6

NotificationWithSoftKeys n = new NotificationWithSoftKeys();
n.Caption = “Load Info”;
n.Text = information;
n.Critical = true;
n.Visible = true;
n.InitialDuration = 5;
n.Icon = Properties.Resources.CAR4;
n.LeftSoftKey = new NotificationSoftKey(SoftKeyType.Dismiss, “Close”);

When I run it in the application, the messages appear fine, but when I click the left key, I get an error saying “KeyNotFoundException”. Any thoughts on what might cause that?

By: AOEN

AOEN — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:29:29 +0000

We have a application which consists of N modules whenever a module is loaded it will load the module related menu items in left soft key.

I have a serious issue when ever the notification dispalys on a window, upon dismiss it will remove the existing left softkey menu items. how can i maintain the state of the already existing menu items.

By: ed

ed — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:11 +0000

I am trying to use your code in a project but notification.dispose is not clearing up the notification. In fact I have made a dll file of the class and then referenced it.

By: Mikhail Diatchenko

Mikhail Diatchenko — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:11:25 +0000

Thanks, Christopher, for this code.
I’m having some problems though:
None of the button events are fired. I’m running your code the VS2005 on a Windows Mobile 6 Classic emulator. Here the code:
_notification = new NotificationWithSoftKeys();
_notification.Caption = “Error”;
_notification.Text = “A message”;
_notification.LeftSoftKey = new NotificationSoftKey(SoftKeyType.StayOpen, “Review”);
_notification.RightSoftKey = new NotificationSoftKey(SoftKeyType.Dismiss, “Dismiss”);
_notification.BalloonChanged += new Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms.BalloonChangedEventHandler(notification_BalloonChanged);
_notification.LeftSoftKeyClick += new EventHandler(notification_Sync_LeftSoftKeyClick);
_notification.RightSoftKeyClick += new EventHandler(notification_Sync_RightSoftKeyClick);
_notification.InitialDuration = 60;
_notification.Visible = true;

Anything i’m doing wrong?

By: Christopher Fairbairn

Christopher Fairbairn — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:33:57 +0000

Hi Juan,

No there’s no problem with using this code within your application. In fact that’s the very reason I decided to start blogging :-)

It’s not so easy to find, but unless explicitly mentioned all of my code samples and blog posts here fall under a license I’ve posted at the bottom of http://www.christec.co.nz/blog/projects. This license should be fairly compatible with the desires of most people. If it doesn’t suit, contact me and I’m sure we can work something out.

By: Juan

Juan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:43:17 +0000

Hi!

We wanted to use this code in our application MoBots (www.mobots.org).

Would there be any problem to use it as is in our application?

Thanks in advance,
Juan

By: JRock

JRock — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:16:15 +0000

you, sir, are the man.