Hi.

We have a script running on a WM5 device with a timer, and
periodically want to run an application in background (say every
minute or so). But, when the app runs you can see it appearing on the
screen before it disappears and we want it to run totally invisibly to
the user (ie no UI).

we have tried me.hide in the load event, and also creating a timer
which runs after 1ms and runs me.hide.

is there any way of hiding the app or removing the ui?

Ian.

On 8 Aug, 11:05, vsciw  wrote:

> Hi.
>
> We have a script running on a WM5 device with a timer, and
> periodically want to run an application in background (say every
> minute or so). But, when the app runs you can see it appearing on the
> screen before it disappears and we want it to run totally invisibly to
> the user (ie no UI).
>
> we have tried me.hide in the load event, and also creating a timer
> which runs after 1ms and runs me.hide.
>
> is there any way of hiding the app or removing the ui?
>
> Ian.


I've found the smart device console application template which will do
this.

If you wanted a UI (for future reference) you could create your own message 
pump and choose to hide the form until you wanted to show it as when using 
the framework Application class, it shows the form when you initialize it 
without you having a choice or even calling ShowDialog().
-- 
Simon Hart
http://simonrhart.blogspot.com


"vsciw" wrote:


> Hi.
> 
> We have a script running on a WM5 device with a timer, and
> periodically want to run an application in background (say every
> minute or so). But, when the app runs you can see it appearing on the
> screen before it disappears and we want it to run totally invisibly to
> the user (ie no UI).
> 
> we have tried me.hide in the load event, and also creating a timer
> which runs after 1ms and runs me.hide.
> 
> is there any way of hiding the app or removing the ui?
> 
> Ian.
> 
>