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Finding or creating a text phrase program or service ?!?!

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SuperRobot5000 - 29 Nov 2006 19:32 GMT
Hi there,

I was wondering if any of you guys know of an existing application or a
way to develop a program that allows me to push a button on my
PocketPC, which will open up a dropdown (or something) that has a list
of pre-defined phrases?

Our company has 100 field service engineers which will use PocketPC's
to update their labour entries for work that they do, and we want to
provide them a way to easily enter commonly used text phrases into a
few different programs on the PocketPC.

Phrases like "Call customer xxxxxx on phone number xxxxxx service
arranged for xx/xx/xx xx:xx" or "Travelled to site and met with
contact".

Now, I don't know if a simple program/service like this exists or not,
but if it doesn't how would I go about developing something like this?

My skills are mainly in .NET development, so if a solution using the
CompactFramework is possible, that would be great!  :o)

Please Help!
Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] - 29 Nov 2006 19:43 GMT
How you access it will control whether Compact Framework will be usable or
not.  It *sounds* to me like a Software Input Panel, which has to be in
native code.  Pushing the phrases into the keyboard buffer is no big deal
(read the earlier messages today about PostKeybdMessage and keybd_event).
Figure out how you want to access it and maybe someone can advise you
further.  If you just want to add it to your own program and put the phrases
on your application menu, you're pretty much done (you don't really need
PostKeybdMessage or keybd_event if the focused window is in your own
application).

Paul T.

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