1) 14:55/04-05-10
2)3 day
3) MC9094-S
4) WM5.0
5) 2109314 Customer has configured his TEAM Express v1.1 client on MC9094-S/WM5.0 to use the F8 key as the PTT Group broadcast button. This is working fine , EXCEPT when F8 is pressed from the Today screen. When this is done, the PTT group broadcast does initialize, but the screen switches to the Phone dialer and puts an asterisk in the phone number field. Is there a way to suppress the Phone Dialer from initilaizing along with the PTT functions within TEAM Express? Pressing F* from any other screen or application does not result in this dual action.
2 Replies
Try remapping the keys.
Microsoft's Today Screen is designed to accept phone dialing. Unfortunately Microsoft seems to ignore Function key state (so if * and F8 are the same key, F8 will look like * to Microsoft). From Microsoft's documentation:
As of Windows Mobile™ 2003 Second Edition for Pocket PC Phone Edition, you can use an integrated hardware keyboard for phone dialing from the Today screen. If you have implemented a hardware keyboard, the dialing feature is available with no additional implementation. You can use a hardware keyboard on the Pocket PC in portrait or landscape mode with no functional difference.
Note All square-screen devices must have a hardware keyboard.
The hardware dialing function is active only when the device is turned on and the Today screen has the focus. Phone characters include the numerals 0 through 9, and the star (*), pound (#), and plus (+) symbols. When you dial a phone character with the hardware keyboard from the Today screen, the Windows Mobile software switches to the Phone application and places the characters into an accumulator.
The following list shows the cases when the operating system (OS) does not switch to the Phone application:
If an edit control on a Today screen plug-in has focus when the hardware keyboard is dialed
If a notification window is displayed
If a phone character is dialed from any other application
If the device is powered off or in sleep mode
Note You may choose to make the flip-open action send a VK_POWER signal and thus wake up the device.
If the phone radio is disabled, the call fails, but the characters are still placed into the accumulator.
If a call is already in progress, hardware keyboard dialing has the same effect as touch screen dialing. It sends Dual-Tone Multifrequency (DTMF) or dials a second line as defined by the Windows Mobile software.
-Dave