windows mobile soft keys

[RLD]

Is there a way to set the text strings in the soft key menu bar?  I'm working on a smartphone (i.e. no touch screen) running WM6.

Rich

[Hueter]

Can you please clarify

I assume you want to develope a LabVIEW VI for this application, is this true (what version)?

What Phone are you trying to target?

If you can handle events generated by the phone you can build your own menu system that would use physical buttons how ever you wish. Integrating LabVIEW with an existing menu API will be more difficult. If you can find general information on how to develop for a given phone menu I can tell you more about how to intgrate it with LV.

[RLD]

I'm using LV8.6 PDA toolkit for a Samsung SGH-i607 smartphone running WM6.

LV8.6 Event Structures captures the phone's navigation keys, and PDA Button VI's trap the phone's soft keys (along with all the other keys including the QWERTY keys), but the soft key menu bar displays the labels that existed prior to launching the LV app.

The window area of a typical smartphone is small as it is without adding Boolean buttons for controlling the app.  So using the two soft keys is very attractive.  Alternatively, if one could "turn off" the soft key menu bar, LV controls could be placed in the area recovered.  But it would be really nice to be able to access the soft keys and still navigate among LV string and numeric controls.

[Hueter]

It looks like you just need to set the values for the Windows Mobile strings. Check out the documentation on MSDN

How to: Create a Soft Key Bar