In WM 6.x File Explorer you have a ListView in report view which has the column headers suppressed, and header dropdowns above that for sorting (right) and navigation (at left).
See: http://www.pocketpcfaq.com/faqs/6/professional/fileexplorer.htm ... which has a few screenshots of this. Now consulting the MS WM Design Guidelines I find: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb158567.aspx ... which covers the bare basics of ListView usage. However it doesn't discuss anything about the "header bar" thingy as used by File Explorer. This would seem to be another control, or a composite control of some sort. Looking in the Design Guidelines further I also find: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa454288.aspx ... which is a bare-bones discussion of "text header" control usage. While this doesn't seem to be quite what I'm after (or is it?) it would appear useful in other situations - assuming it can't also be bent to my need for a File Explorer-style ListView header. Do we have a control we can use in NSB/CE as such a "text header" UI element? Great place for the Help icon, and I see much MS software does this (as shown in the 2nd screenshot at the link above). I believe there is also some kind of "Header control" which is what I was really after. However the link is bad in the online MSDN Library, and directs me to the "Text Header" topic I linked above. I have toyed with cobbling together something out of a Label control or a PictureBox with a couple of ComboBoxes sitting on top of it. This is pretty hackish looking though, just to begin with because I can't suppress the ComboBox border or set the internal BackColor properly. Surely WM UI development isn't this awful for everyone? Do people truly resort to drawing their own at runtime and tracking mouse position and clicks or what? I'm simply trying to develop UIs for my programs that act like WinMobile programs. UI consistency reduces user training and confusion, and thus reduces support costs and makes Help files smaller, i.e. less explanation required for simple things. Any help would be appreciated. All I'm looking for here is the ability to produce something that works like File Explorer's view of the filesystem. Thanks! Bob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nsb-ce" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nsb-ce?hl=en.
