URGENT: Working with Pocket Notes

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Mustafa Rabie

Hi All,

I have a customer that wants to write down notes when he's on the phone. We
need to then take these notes and put some extra parameters to them for
identification, so when he syncs his pocketpc phone we can take these notes
and link it to the customer he was talking to in a tracking database. So i
was thinking of doing one of the following:

1) Try to hock an application to the PocketPC notes application, and when he
clicks OK button, i open my save dialog box where he specifies the rules to
save this note. IS THIS POSSIBLE? IF YES.. HOW?

2) To find a way to link the file name to our application, but can't find a
good way to do it. Any suggestions would be really appreciated

3) Create our my notes application but i need to know if there are controls
that i can use the Ink and rich text controls and the free hand of the
pocket notes application?

Where can i find resources on how to work with notes programatically?

Your help is really appreciated. waiting to hear your suggestions and help
soon.

Thanks
Mustafa
 
Your best bet would be to create your own application using the RichInk
control (which is used by the notes application and can be used to open
notes files), and then save the data with a specific filename of your
applications choosing. If you are creating your application using the .NET
Compact Framework, which I assume you are as you posted in this group then
you could take a look at the InkX control in the OpenNETCF Smart Device
Framework (www.opennetcf.org/sdf/)

Peter

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thanks peter i'll check that out. one more thing is there anyway toadd my
own icon in the Dialer Application (Phone Application) in the pocketpc
phone? That's actually i was thinking about linking the app to the notes
app, since notes already has an icon in the dialer and we wanted our
customer not to go through a lot of proceedures to take notes.

thanks
mustafa
 
These options appear to be hard-coded, I couldn't find a registry entry for
them. Probably the best way would be to overwrite the standard notes.exe
with your custom application, which may work, I haven't tested it.

Peter

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well am not sure if that would work since the notes.exe app is on the ROM,
and can't really remove apps from the ROM. Is there a way to do that?
1 more thing do you have a sample of using the InkX component? like saving
the notes and working with voice notes?

thanks a lot for your help
 
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