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Mobile Development: Subclass foreign Window using injectDLL

Recently we needed to show and hide the SIP (Software Input Panel) inside a full screen Remote Desktop Mobile session.

The first challenge is to control the SIP without having a menu bar with the SIP symbol inside. To get this working you can assign a hardware keyboard button, it must be an App button, to show the SIP. See Settings>Personal>Buttons and assign “<Input Panel>” to the hardware key.

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Unfortunately the SIP will be hidden immediately after being shown if RDM is started with Full Screen option.

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Windows Mobile: Install FTDI_SER serial to USB adapter

Sometime you may need additional serial connectors for your windows mobile device. Here is the odyssey I had with a FTDI adapter:

How I installed a FTDI serial to USB adapter within ITC CN50 running Windows Mobile 6.1.

Although the USB to Serial adapters with FTDI chips can be installed with drivers from FTDI, these will not work out of the box with WM6.1.

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