Month: July 2007

I wanted to develop a screen size aware application, which will draw all application dialogboxes and windows dynamically depends on the actual screen size of the device. It will not be that hard to adapt the main application window to the screen size because GetWindowRect() or GetClientRect() functions can be used to get the screen size when the main window is loaded. However, if the application has a pop-op dialogbox for user to do some selections before the main window is loaded, how can I make the dialogbox aware of the screen size? Since main application window hasn’t loaded yet … Continue reading Windows Mobile: Getting Screen Size Information Before Main Window Is Loaded

Windows programming in native C++ is generally considered far more complex than in managed code. Programming for Windows Mobile devices is very similar with Windows programming. Sometimes we need to figure out which Window message is sent so we can write the corresponding event handling code. However, we can’t use Spy++ to do so because we are either debugging our application in the device emulator which is a virtual machine or an actual device. Visual Studio has a tool called Remote Spy++ (with an array of other remote tools), which provides us the functionality to work with device emulators and/or  actual connected devices. So … Continue reading Using Remote Spy++ To Check Window Messages in Windows Mobile Applications