I have a windows phone 7 app that uses GPS to track user position. Now the user can disable this feature through the phone's setting menu. the app handles this disabling fine and gives them a message. This is all pretty standard windows phone stuff.
My question is whether I can navigate (inside the app) to the settings menu so that the user can enable phone location services? Ideally I would give them a link or a button that they touch and they are then taken out of the app to the settings menu. They would then click 'back' and return to the app.
No, at the moment, there's no way to fire up the Settings menu from inside your app.
Try this:
Windows.System.Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri(“ms-settings-location:”));
Not sure if it works on WP7 though.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj662937(v=vs.105).aspx
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In some conditions the Windows 10's game bar opens up with my application (made with Delphi, VCL). Thats not a game and i don't directly use DirectX or OpenGL, but it opens up.
To be specific, when i reduce to tray my app and a popup is opened the Game Bar appears.
I found a numbers of sites with tutorial for totally disable the Windows 10 game bar (like this) but i want to disable for my application only, i don't think users will be happy to have a windows feature silently disabled by my app
Is this possible? I cannot find any documentation about it
You can disable it following this solution :
Press Win+G, click the Gear icon (Settings) and uncheck "Remember this is a game" (https://superuser.com/questions/1086248/windows-10-xbox-dvr-app-thinks-chrome-is-a-game).
Note that if the name of the application is Main.exe, this checkbox is not visible.
If the name of the app is main.exe or anything else, it is visible.
It seems it is stored in the registry : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\System\GameConfigStore\ in the Children and Parents directories.
You can try to find your app using the ExeParentDirectory key.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/3fbu0x/win_10_game_bardvr_anyone_having_issues/
I don't know if it applies to an executable where Windows decides it is a game (like Main.exe)
I use Window lumia 630
How to configure cortana in window lumia 630?
i am trying trying lots of time but not start
I find the solution this will also working
Cortana's settings
One advantage of a digital personal assistant is that she won't take it personally if you want to adjust her settings and how she works. You can get to Cortana's settings on your Windows Phone in two ways:
Press the Search Search icon button to go to Cortana, then tap Cortana's NotebookCortana's Notebook icon > Settings.
In the App list, tap Settings Settings Tile, swipe over to Applications, then tap Cortana.
Here's what you can do in Cortana's settings.
for more... see this link
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-in/how-to/wp8/cortana/cortanas-settings
You need to put ur location as US in settings
speech too in english
I implement a notify icon for my application by call Shell_NotifyIcon.
In the default, the notify icon display in the notify icon area instead of task bar in windows 7.
If the user want to show the notify icon in the task bar, he/she need to open the Notification Area Icons control panel item, find the application and set "Show icon and notifications" for the application.
I think it will be difficult to the user with poor windows knowledge. I want to implement this function that show the notify icon in the task bar in my VC++ code or installer. Is it possible? If yes, what should I do?
Appreciate.
No, this is not possible.
Windows 7 introduces a feature where notification icons can be hidden. It is an attempt to reduce the noise created by decades of developers dumping notification icons in the taskbar for no good reason.
In order for that feature to work effectively, there can't be a loophole for applications to get around it, because everyone thinks their application is the most important and the most deserving of prime real estate. Eventually, nothing is sacred anymore.
Raymond Chen has blogged about this very request, and provides some additional background info.
You just create the notification icon and provide the user with instructions in the documentation on how to show it permanently, if they so desire.
Why not just pin your application to the task bar? They can just click it and it will launch the application?
I've got a Windows Mobile 5 and i need to hide settings icon
We have employees that don't speak English, and I need the desktop to be very simplified. I just need hide the icon settings beacause got configuration that they cant to move
Here is an application including source code to hide elements from the home screen.
You have to look at the registry at HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Today\Items and set Enabled=0 for the items that should not be shown.
The settings icon is controlled separately by HKLM\Security\Shell\StartInfo:HideSettings registry key.
Although you can hide the settings icon, the user can still access settings using the top bar! To prohibit that you need to code more. See my KIOSK articles at my web blog above.
I'd like to add a "hide button" each time the keyboard shows up so that user can see all the screen when he needs to.
In iPhone this toolbar exists, is it possible to do the same for windows phone anyhow ?
You cannot change the default keyboard. Still here is a tutorial to create a custom keyboard on Windows Phone 7.