In CF 1.0 and WM2003, if MinimizeBox of a form was set to true and you were to call Form.Close, it would mimimize the application.
With CF 2.0 and WM2005 however, the same scenario closes the form completely. Is this the expected/desired behavior If so, how can one programmatically minimize a form or send it to the back. Form.SendToBack does not seem to work if called from the contructor, form_load or form_activate.
MinimizeBox = True And Form.Close, Diiferent behavior between CF1.0 and CF2.0
Kalyani Sundaresan
the control button is always a "X" unless ControlBox is true and MinimizeBox is false, then it's a OK
Regardless of these settings, a form will ALWAYS close when you click the button
What is going on This page is obviously rubbish now!
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bxz0e21k(VS.80).aspx
rezaA
I wasn't able to reproduce your problem. I'm including the code below, please modify it so it shows the problem you mentioned, repost and I'll look into it.
Using PPC 2003 SE device (ipaq 4700), with a v1 compiled EXE running against v1 4292 (SP3), if I call Form.Close(), the application exits. This is the same behavior I got using the same code compiled for v2 running under the WM 5 emulator.
Yılmaz ÜNAL
when you ran your test..was the MinimizeBox set to TRUE
nay min thu
So I installed it (sp3) and my Add/Remove progs list shows Microsoft .Net Compact Framework 1.0 SP3, but I still get the same message (tried re-booting thank you). This should be ok to do eh Surely all I need is some version of CF1.0
or
Do I need CF1.0 without the service pack In that case where can I get it from, I can't find it anywhere on the net, MS site doesn't list it, all I can find are redistributables
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This is the brick wall I'm hitting my head off. I want my app to smart minimize, not close, so that users don't have to wait 12 seconds for it to load up every time they want to use it
Crakdkorn
I tried this out on the PPC2003 emulator and had no trouble. If you want to try it elsewhere you would be wise to test it first. This code snippet is p/invoking to the native ShowWindow function using the native window handle for the form. Unforetunately I don't have a good, well supported way to offer instead.
using
System;using
System.Windows.Forms;using
System.Runtime.InteropServices;namespace
DeviceApplication3{
public partial class Form1 : Form{
public Form1(){
InitializeComponent();
}
private void m_bigMinimizeButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e){
ShowWindow(
this.Handle, SHOWWINDOW.SW_MINIMIZE);}
public enum SHOWWINDOW : uint{
SW_MINIMIZE = 6
}
[
DllImport("coredll.dll")] internal static extern int ShowWindow(IntPtr hwnd, SHOWWINDOW cmdShow);}
}
-Noah
.Net Compact Framework
kaebischer
Noah, thanks for the code.
I'm only using MagicButton on my development device, not on production devices, so it's not really a problem, just strange
handsumblondy
The control box is always visible
The minimise icon is always X unless cb=true and mb=false
clicking the cb icon always closes the app even if mb=true ('X')
This is only true if MagicButton is running. If you haven't used this, it is a handy 'task-manager' de/activated by holding the stylus on the control button(!) With this not running, the form behaves exactly as it is meant to.
vs2005/cf2.0/ppc2003
(http://www.trancreative.com/mb.aspx)
p.s. I've just tried the lastest version, same result
and sorry for ranting earlier
Blue Shirt
I'm amazed that something so fundamental has changed, or is it a bug
actinium.ga
I'm pretty sure that transCreative MagicButton was causing interference with the control button. Once I'd removed that app, everything went back to normal
Paul from Iowa
Unfortunately, this is not working for me...unless we are misunderstanding each other...
i have an app with one form and all i did was add a button, which when clicked, closes the form. While debugging and tracing through the code, i notice that when the close method is called, the application ends.
public partial class Form1 : Form{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.Close();
}
}
Maxncl
Why has the behaviour changed I spent ages working out exactly how different true/false combinations worked for ControlBox & MinimizeBox when I first developed this app, so it would behave as I want
Now I'm trying the app on different devices, some ppc2003, one WM5.0 (all with CF2.0) , and the behaviour is different! !
I thought that forms not closing, but hiding when a user clicked the X was fundamental to the way mobile devices worked, and now I find that it's all changed!
C'mon Microsoft, sort it our please, either do one or the other, and if you're going to change it, make sure you bloody well point it out!
Does anyone know a link which explains what is going on
whitegrs
Nontechie
In Mike's test it was in the code snippet
public Test()
{
this.Text = "click on the (x)";
// this is the default value
this.MinimizeBox = true; <---
-Noah
.Net Compact Framework