KeyPad Programming on Symbol 88xx in VB.NET

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Mystic Mong

Hi there,

Does anyone know how to program the keyboard on a Symbol 88xx unit in
VB.NET?

I have used the Symbol.Keyboard namespace successfully on other Symbol units
but not on this newer model. The units have PPC2003 and I am using SP2 of
the Compact Framework. If I try my previous code the error "Keyboard not
available" is thrown.

I did read somewhere that it is possible that this unit does not support
full keyboard programming yet but don't know what this actually means (or
whether it is true or not!). Does anyone know if an update is on the way for
these units or if there is another way to reference the keypad?

Any thoughts or suggestions would be really helpful.

Cheers

C-Ya Aly
 
I think you need to check with Symbol on this. I use 8800s but have never
attempted keyboard programming (I'm not even completely sure what that
means!) Since you have used this feature successfully on other Symbol
devices, my guess would be that the feature is just not there on the 8800.
 
By "Keyboard Programming" I mean that I want to be able to control when (and
when not) users can change, for example, the Alpha or Function state of the
keypad.

I have approached Symbol and they are now looking into this for me.

Many thanks

Aly
 
Thanks, Aly. Please let me know what Symbol says. I think this would be
useful for my users as well if it is supported on the 8800.
 
Any update on this? I am having this problem also. The Keypad sample
that Symbol provide with their Mobility Toolkit fails on my Symbol
8800 device with the same error "Keyboard support not available".

Thanks,
 
I have since fixed this problem. You need to download Symbol Mobility
Developer Kit 1.1. Install this on the device and add the following
registry key on the device:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Symbol\Keyboard\Settings]
"KeyboardPresent"=dword:00000001

This is explained in the readme file that comes with SMDK 1.1.

Regards,

David Flynn
 
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