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Smartphone WM5 emulator images? The PocketTV Team 03-11-2006
Posted by The PocketTV Team on March 11, 2006, 1:41 am
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the Smartphone emulator images that are bundled with the VS2005 SDK are for
Smartphone 2003 (i.e. WinCE 4.21).

the problem is that Smartphones with WinCE 4.21 does not support
programatically changing screen orientation to Landscape. I did the
following test:

{
int ret;
DEVMODE devMode = ;
devMode.dmSize = sizeof devMode;
devMode.dmFields = DM_DISPLAYORIENTATION;
devMode.dmDisplayOrientation = DMDO_90;

ret = ChangeDisplaySettingsEx((const TCHAR *)NULL, &devMode, (HWND)NULL, 0,
NULL);
// on Smartphone 2003 (WinCE 4.21), ret == -2 (DISP_CHANGE_BADMODE = the
mode is unsupported)
}

therefore it is not possible to rotate the display (programmatically) to
test that applications run fine of Landscape-oriented Smartphones.

i'm pretty sure that WM5 smartphones support display ritations, since some
of those new smartphone are coming out with a landscape-oriented display:

Tapani Saarinen wrote: Smartphones with landscape screen (320x240).

http://www.motorola.com/motoinfo/product/details/0,,113,00.html
http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=2902#article

so, are there WM5 Smartphone emulator images that support
DM_DISPLAYORIENTATION with DMDO_90 ? (i.e. Landscape display)

short of that, i don't think third-party software can be properly tested for
those upcoming devices...



Posted by The PocketTV Team on March 11, 2006, 1:50 am
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well, i found some localized WM5 Smartphone emulator images here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=52FED581-8F8D-4C46-9966-4832098191B7&displaylang=en

but strangely the WWE (wold-wide english = standard us-english) is not in
the list!!!

anyone knows where i can get the WWE WM5 Smartphone emulator image?

is it necessary to download the WM5 Smartphone SDK in order to get it?

also, is it possible to use the Smarphone 2003 SDK (with VS2005 tools)
together with the WM5 Smartphone emulator images? well, i guess i'll get
the answer if i try :)


> the Smartphone emulator images that are bundled with the VS2005 SDK are
> for Smartphone 2003 (i.e. WinCE 4.21).
>
> the problem is that Smartphones with WinCE 4.21 does not support
> programatically changing screen orientation to Landscape. I did the
> following test:
>
> {
> int ret;
> DEVMODE devMode = ;
> devMode.dmSize = sizeof devMode;
> devMode.dmFields = DM_DISPLAYORIENTATION;
> devMode.dmDisplayOrientation = DMDO_90;
>
> ret = ChangeDisplaySettingsEx((const TCHAR *)NULL, &devMode, (HWND)NULL,
> 0, NULL);
> // on Smartphone 2003 (WinCE 4.21), ret == -2 (DISP_CHANGE_BADMODE = the
> mode is unsupported)
> }
>
> therefore it is not possible to rotate the display (programmatically) to
> test that applications run fine of Landscape-oriented Smartphones.
>
> i'm pretty sure that WM5 smartphones support display ritations, since some
> of those new smartphone are coming out with a landscape-oriented display:
>
> Tapani Saarinen wrote: Smartphones with landscape screen (320x240).
>
> http://www.motorola.com/motoinfo/product/details/0,,113,00.html
> http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=2902#article
>
> so, are there WM5 Smartphone emulator images that support
> DM_DISPLAYORIENTATION with DMDO_90 ? (i.e. Landscape display)
>
> short of that, i don't think third-party software can be properly tested
> for those upcoming devices...
>



Posted by The PocketTV Team on March 11, 2006, 1:55 am
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> is it necessary to download the WM5 Smartphone SDK in order to get it?
>
> also, is it possible to use the Smarphone 2003 SDK (with VS2005 tools)
> together with the WM5 Smartphone emulator images? well, i guess i'll get
> the answer if i try :)

apparently yes, it is necessary to install the WM5 Smartphone SDK in order
to use the WM5 Smartphone emulator images.



Posted by Tapani Saarinen on March 13, 2006, 7:30 am
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The PocketTV Team wrote:
> short of that, i don't think third-party software can be properly tested for
> those upcoming devices...

Why don't you test Smartphone software with a WM5 Pocket PC device? I
have understood that WM5 PPC runs Smartphone apps. 320x240 Pocket PC
resolution is the same as in QVGA Smartphones.

-Tapani

Posted by The PocketTV Team on March 16, 2006, 5:54 am
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> The PocketTV Team wrote:
>> short of that, i don't think third-party software can be properly tested
>> for
>> those upcoming devices...
>
> Why don't you test Smartphone software with a WM5 Pocket PC device? I
> have understood that WM5 PPC runs Smartphone apps. 320x240 Pocket PC
> resolution is the same as in QVGA Smartphones.

because we have different binaries for Smartphone and Pocket PC.

why do we have different binaries for Smartphone and Pocket PC?

because they use different UI's, and also because in general it is not
possible to make a single executable that runs on Smartphone and Pocket PC.

The fact that they have similar resolution does not mean that the platform
are identical enough so that testing on one is sufficient to validate on the
other.



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