Trying to emulate Pocket Outlook navigation...

[Neil Kiser]

I am trying to emulate the Pocket Outlook contacts navigation feature.
This is the feature where there are 9 boxes at the top of the screen
and you tap on a box to cycle the listview between the three letters
of the alphabet displayed in each box.

I am using VS.Net 2003 and C#.

I know how I can implement this, but I have two questions regarding
"refinement":

1) I would like to highlight the letter of the alphabet that is
currently selected by making the background for that character black
and the character itself white (as opposed to the normal
black-on-white, the selected character would be white-on-black). For
the life of me I don't know how I could accomplish this.

2) I want to have an 'arrow' icon when the user mousesover these
controls. It's been awhile since I have done windows programming (web
developer). How could I make the system use the arrow pointer instead
of the text icon when mousing over these controls?

Thanks,
-Neil K.

 

[Neil Kiser]

2) I want to have an 'arrow' icon when the user mousesover these

controls. It's been awhile since I have done windows programming (web
developer). How could I make the system use the arrow pointer instead
of the text icon when mousing over these controls?

My mistake on this one. I am using the emulator for all of my
development work and, being new to PDA development, it didn't cross my
mind that the mousepointer I see in the emulator doesn't exist on an
actual PDA.

Am am still interested however in how I might develop a button control
in which I can control the font style of individual characters in the
button text.

Thanks,
-Neil K.