RE: Pocket PC Programming
Posted: 3/14/2004 5:13:47 PMBy: Comfortably Anonymous
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I went ahead and bought it. Not much of a change from Pocket PC 2002 if you ask me.
Still no built-in support for reading .chm help files. Still cannot put Pocket Internet Explorer into landscape mode. I rate those two as the lamest.
Screenspace on a PDA is rather scarce, and even with "Fit to Screen" turned on, I end up having to scroll back and forth to read a lot of web pages, including here. Sucks.
And with Microsoft changing their help format to the .chm (Compiled HTML I beleive it means), which is great on a normal PC, I am amazed that they don't have .chm support in Windows Mobile. Just stupid. As a techie by trade, nothing would be better that to put lots of technical reference material on my PDA, so when I am out on the server floor, I can look up information on the fly.
(But I did find Peter Tewkesbury's CHM Reader at The Code Project which is free, open-source, and works quite well, so I'm happy again, but still thinking it's insane that Microsoft doesn't have such a utility included by default.)
It works fine except when reading an eBook in Microsoft Reader, then shutting off the PDA, then turning it back on and continuing, usually about 2 - 5 pages later it pops up "Microsoft Reader can no longer access this book" and I end up having to click on Library, then reselect the book I was just reading, and then Most Recent page to get back to being able to read. Quite annoying. Anyone else run into this?
Still no built-in support for reading .chm help files. Still cannot put Pocket Internet Explorer into landscape mode. I rate those two as the lamest.
Screenspace on a PDA is rather scarce, and even with "Fit to Screen" turned on, I end up having to scroll back and forth to read a lot of web pages, including here. Sucks.
And with Microsoft changing their help format to the .chm (Compiled HTML I beleive it means), which is great on a normal PC, I am amazed that they don't have .chm support in Windows Mobile. Just stupid. As a techie by trade, nothing would be better that to put lots of technical reference material on my PDA, so when I am out on the server floor, I can look up information on the fly.
(But I did find Peter Tewkesbury's CHM Reader at The Code Project which is free, open-source, and works quite well, so I'm happy again, but still thinking it's insane that Microsoft doesn't have such a utility included by default.)
It works fine except when reading an eBook in Microsoft Reader, then shutting off the PDA, then turning it back on and continuing, usually about 2 - 5 pages later it pops up "Microsoft Reader can no longer access this book" and I end up having to click on Library, then reselect the book I was just reading, and then Most Recent page to get back to being able to read. Quite annoying. Anyone else run into this?
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RE: Pocket PC Programming
Posted: 3/14/2004 5:13:47 PMBy: Comfortably Anonymous
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Topic: Programming: .NET Framework
As far as the message about "Microsoft Reader is no longer able to access this book" - I found that only occurs when the book is stored on my 256 MB SD memory card. If stored in main memory or in the built-in flash memory, then no issues.
If anyone has any fixes for memory access issues with cheap (Walmart) SD cards, please post here! Thanks!
If anyone has any fixes for memory access issues with cheap (Walmart) SD cards, please post here! Thanks!
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