378 vinoth Feb 05 11722 Views Creating shortcuts to Control Panel Applications A recently invoked query on the MSDN news group for Windows CE has induced me to script this post. Most WinCE professionals might be aware of creating short-cut for a file. Now the question is – Would it be possible to create a ...
229 vinoth Nov 28 4516 Views Customizing Power Manager for SetSystemPowerState() Changing the system state can be as simple as a cup of tea! by calling SetSystemPowerstate() API. But not all power states can be allowed to set through this API in the default cases. For example setting to “SystemIdle” using this API will be ...
221 vinoth Nov 19 6564 Views Creating an effective image viewer in Windows CE There are some cases where we may need to develop a DLL or application to show the images on the devices. For example, an Image viewer will be needed to show the picture after taking a snap shot from the camera using a direct show camera ...
218 vinoth Nov 14 5764 Views Handling Real Time Tasks in Windows CE There are certain use cases – we may have to handle the non-standard custom interface to communicate between the processor and the hardware. An example is controlling the brightness of an LCD. The brightness controller is interfaced with the ...
121 vinoth Apr 20 5895 Views Sharing I2C bus between OAL RTC part and Driver part on Windows CE Real Time Clock or RTC is an essential component in all embedded systems. Though all the modern day CPUs have inbuilt RTC, designers are comfortable with external RTC for some specific reasons such as to reduce the power burden, RTC alarms to ...
112 vinoth Apr 14 4678 Views Workaround to reload the Power Manager activity timeout upon every boo... Power management is an important aspect of the modern embedded devices. Flexibility in the OS Power Manager is the key driver to meet the requirements of myriad of devices. Windows CE offers this flexibility, though developer has to do a quick tweak ...
81 vinoth Apr 02 8926 Views How to remove Pop-up windows in Kiosk mode Windows CE is a customizable OS and custom application has been executed on the top of the OS. Majority of the customers won’t prefer to use the windows CE standard utilities embed on the control panel. Instead they develop their own applications ...
66 vinoth Mar 30 28500 Views Workaround for Suspend using core idle or ring Oscillator Mode in PXA3... Power Management is one of the crucial aspects of the handheld design. In various handhelds, the power management states and transition to these states without losing the operating context is the key to effective implementation of Power Management. ...