Hi all,

Sorry in advance if this is extremely easy. I have been searching
around on several newsgroups today and haven't found an elegant way to
handle this situation.

I'm trying to create a menu program that will startup when the device
turns on. The program has been placed in \Windows\Startup to achieve
this action. The menu program will show a list of programs that I have
also created. I would like to lock down the taskbar so the user can
not navigate away from my custom program stream. In my first attempt I
called SHFullScreen from my menu program with 0x0020. This works fine
in the menu program, but as soon as I launch a secondary program the
start icon returns.

Does anybody know of a way to remove the start icon for all programs
while my menu program is still running in the background?

Thanks in advance,
Jerod

You can disable and hide the task bar.  Since you don't say what device type 
you're running on, I'm not 100% sure that this is correct for you, but if 
you FindWindow( L"HHTaskBar", NULL ) to get a window handle to the task bar, 
then do a suitable ShowWindow() and EnableWindow() to hide and disable the 
taskbar, I think you'll get what you want.  Of course, you have to P/Invoke 
these calls...

Paul T.

"Jerod Houghtelling"  wrote in message 
news:1187301220.499998.56800@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

> Hi all,
>
> Sorry in advance if this is extremely easy. I have been searching
> around on several newsgroups today and haven't found an elegant way to
> handle this situation.
>
> I'm trying to create a menu program that will startup when the device
> turns on. The program has been placed in \Windows\Startup to achieve
> this action. The menu program will show a list of programs that I have
> also created. I would like to lock down the taskbar so the user can
> not navigate away from my custom program stream. In my first attempt I
> called SHFullScreen from my menu program with 0x0020. This works fine
> in the menu program, but as soon as I launch a secondary program the
> start icon returns.
>
> Does anybody know of a way to remove the start icon for all programs
> while my menu program is still running in the background?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jerod
> 

On Aug 16, 4:02 pm, "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT
no instrument no spam DOT com> wrote:

> You can disable and hide the task bar.  Since you don't say what device type
> you're running on, I'm not 100% sure that this is correct for you, but if
> you FindWindow( L"HHTaskBar", NULL ) to get a window handle to the task bar,
> then do a suitable ShowWindow() and EnableWindow() to hide and disable the
> taskbar, I think you'll get what you want.  Of course, you have to P/Invoke
> these calls...
>
> Paul T.
>
> "Jerod Houghtelling"  wrote in message
>
> news:1187301220.499998.56800@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > Sorry in advance if this is extremely easy. I have been searching
> > around on several newsgroups today and haven't found an elegant way to
> > handle this situation.
>
> > I'm trying to create a menu program that will startup when the device
> > turns on. The program has been placed in \Windows\Startup to achieve
> > this action. The menu program will show a list of programs that I have
> > also created. I would like to lock down the taskbar so the user can
> > not navigate away from my custom program stream. In my first attempt I
> > called SHFullScreen from my menu program with 0x0020. This works fine
> > in the menu program, but as soon as I launch a secondary program the
> > start icon returns.
>
> > Does anybody know of a way to remove the start icon for all programs
> > while my menu program is still running in the background?
>
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Jerod


Paul,

This is almost what I need. However I'm more concerned about just
disabling the start menu drop down. If I disable the entire task bar
then you will not be able to exit programs that have the default
control box. The point of disabling the start menu for me is so they
can't navigate way from my approved programs. I'm using PPC 2003 SE
and coding in C#. I know there has to be a way of doing this because
you can setup HHP's EzMenu system to accomplish this task.

Thanks Again.
Jerod

If you just want to prevent the user from running some applications, then you 
can disable the applications from running.  At one point Rabi Sater had a 
good article on his blog about disabling applications from running. It was in 
his Kiosk section.  I'd start there and then do a search for disabling run of 
applications on Windows Mobile.

Rick D.
Contractor

"Jerod Houghtelling" wrote:


> On Aug 16, 4:02 pm, "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT
> no instrument no spam DOT com> wrote:
> > You can disable and hide the task bar.  Since you don't say what device type
> > you're running on, I'm not 100% sure that this is correct for you, but if
> > you FindWindow( L"HHTaskBar", NULL ) to get a window handle to the task bar,
> > then do a suitable ShowWindow() and EnableWindow() to hide and disable the
> > taskbar, I think you'll get what you want.  Of course, you have to P/Invoke
> > these calls...
> >
> > Paul T.
> >
> > "Jerod Houghtelling"  wrote in message
> >
> > news:1187301220.499998.56800@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > > Hi all,
> >
> > > Sorry in advance if this is extremely easy. I have been searching
> > > around on several newsgroups today and haven't found an elegant way to
> > > handle this situation.
> >
> > > I'm trying to create a menu program that will startup when the device
> > > turns on. The program has been placed in \Windows\Startup to achieve
> > > this action. The menu program will show a list of programs that I have
> > > also created. I would like to lock down the taskbar so the user can
> > > not navigate away from my custom program stream. In my first attempt I
> > > called SHFullScreen from my menu program with 0x0020. This works fine
> > > in the menu program, but as soon as I launch a secondary program the
> > > start icon returns.
> >
> > > Does anybody know of a way to remove the start icon for all programs
> > > while my menu program is still running in the background?
> >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Jerod
> 
> Paul,
> 
> This is almost what I need. However I'm more concerned about just
> disabling the start menu drop down. If I disable the entire task bar
> then you will not be able to exit programs that have the default
> control box. The point of disabling the start menu for me is so they
> can't navigate way from my approved programs. I'm using PPC 2003 SE
> and coding in C#. I know there has to be a way of doing this because
> you can setup HHP's EzMenu system to accomplish this task.
> 
> Thanks Again.
> Jerod
> 
>