I would like to use the physical button of Android Wear smartwatches to initiate a call on mobile phone (after pressing it multiple times)
I want to build an app which, after pressing the button 4 times, would initiate a fake call (with vibro function) on the cell phone.
Is it possible to do this, aren't these button functions reserved by manufacturer?
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Have a USB Game Controller, searching for a method in any Windows compatible language to press a button on it.
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I have Windows gaming PC and a set of four Ultimarc Ultrasticks built into an arcade cabinet. Each Ultimarc Joystick appears as 16 button device on Windows, because of a shift key feature I have no interest in using. It would eat a button and slow response time. My layout uses 8 buttons, which is exactly how many inputs the joystick has.
However, I'm hopeful I can use the fact that those buttons exist for the device to add a virtual start button to each joystick.
I'm open to using any language, but looking for a method to programmatically press the 9th button on this joystick, which is available as far as windows knows, despite not having a physical input.
I'm familiar with key remappers that create a virtual game pad with their keys mapped to other physical devices, but those come with the complexity of having duplicate joysticks on the system, and don't seem necessary if I can just virtually press this one more button, since all other buttons and axes are mapped as I want.
We are doing User acceptance testing on a Xamarin Forms UWP app targeting windows 10 tablet. We are finding that when the user clicks on a textbox to enter data the soft keyboard appears as expected. However, when the user then clicks into the next textbox to enter a second required piece of data, the soft keyboard hides/closes. This results in the user having to double hit the second textbox (and any more than might need to be filled). The first click hides the keyboard, the second then causes the keyboard to reappear. To say the least this is not a good user experience. I'm guessing maybe the focus of the second is firing before the lost focus of the first? Has anyone else observed this behavior and is there any easy fix? As may want to target both Android and Windows I'm hoping for a simple solution but maybe UWP just does has some problems?
I want to run a program (exe file) when the Power button of my laptop is pressed. (Not when system is shutting down)
I tried getting its keycode using c# and js, but none of them capture this keypress as they only capture keyboard buttons. Look at the drop-down menu I have opened:
My problem would be solved if they add "Run a specific program..." in this drop-down:
But of course they won't add this option!
So, how do I get it done? Maybe using Task Scheduler?
There's no keycode for the power button. The driver is sitting between your OS and your hardware. When you push the "G" button on your keyboard, the driver translates that to an OS system call representing the "G" key which your program can listen for and intercept. But there's no OS system call for a representing the "power" button. Instead, your driver is translating that to OS system calls to initiate a shutdown, turn off the monitor, etc.
Your laptop driver allows you to configure which system call you want to initiate when the power button is pressed, but that driver is going to be unique to the brand and model of your laptop, and if they don't offer support for capturing that keypress through their driver, then you probably don't have any easy way to intercept it.
I've seen a Windows Phone 7 app with a window/popup which shows, after a use choice, half covering the current window, sliding in from the left while it closes when the users taps outside that window. For Windows 8x Store apps, this is a PopUp Control in a Flyout. But this is not available for Windows Phone.The regular pop-up control doesn't slide in with
<toolkit:TransitionService.NavigationInTransition>
which does work in a page-to-page transition. I have not succeeded either in closing it when I tap outside the pop-up. I tried adding LostFocus="MyEndPopUp" but that method is never called and also tried to end it on a OnNavigateFrom. What do I miss here?
If anyone could e.g. point me to some sample code doing more or less what I want would be great.
We have a very simple demo app with the Windows Phone map app sending a link via 'tap and send' to an NFC tablet. I can get and read the URL coming over, but Windows 8 pops over a purple bar in the top right asking if I want to receive content from another device, which then opens IE to the URL.
Is there an easy way to stop the default Windows behavior (not have the purple bar slide in)?
Thanks!
There is no way of disabling the toast pop-up and still have the OS launch the browser by default.
When not inside of a "metro style" app toast will always should for incoming proximity payloads such as an NFC tap, however if you are inside of your application you can subscribe to the proximity events and respond with your own user experiences, which means you don't have to show the toast. However when you are in the OS/Start Menu experience Windows always mandates the toast I'm afraid.
In addition; following on from the title of your question NFC tags respond based on the default program for the MIME type/extension on the tag (if using a URL). So if you want a custom experience instead of IE launching you can register your app again an extension or protocol such as map://mydataUrl and Windows will automatically launch your app when you acknowledge the toast popup.