I am developing an application in windows phone 8 which reads the number entered by user and then make cellular call to that number.
Code is -
PhoneCallTask callTask = new PhoneCallTask();
callTask.PhoneNumber = number;
callTask.DisplayName = "Adam";
callTask.Show();
Problem is - While executing this code, application shows a prompt message "Dial ?" with "Call" and "don't call" buttons and then on clicking on "Call" does the action of originating call. So, looking for a solution which will originate the call without user interaction.
Thanks in advance.
Unfortunately, on Windows Phone it isn't possible to make a call without user interaction.
Related
For Office 365 Outlook Web App, we would like to convert attachments to links once end user uploads them, however we didn't see an attachment notification event at current Outlook Addin.
Another approach we could do is to ask them to use our own buttons for uploading, however we need to guide end user to use our own buttons, could we add some message at top of email body like below once new email message box is displayed?
Somehow based on our research, Outlook Addin only has one event right now which is SendEvent, could someone confirm this? if so, it is rather limited.
To display a custom message use Office.context.mailbox.item.notificationMessages object. For example to add a message to current item the code may looks like ...
Office.context.mailbox.item.notificationMessages.addAsync("information", {
type: "informationalMessage",
message : "My custom message.",
icon : "iconid",
persistent: false
});
Be aware there are a maximum of 5 notifications per message and maximum length of each message text is 150 characters per Office.NotificationMessageDetails interface.
For the secondary question you would need to look at available events in Office.EventType enum. Over here you'll see few events available to Outlook app. One of them you are interested in is AttachmentsChanged which is currently available only in Preview (not released yet, but will be soon).
I'm coding an application which is fullscreen.
I don't want anyone to be able to alt+tab/win+tab/alt+f4/alt+esc etc. out of the application.
I DO however have an 'administrator' PIN login, where doing so closes the form to show the desktop.
How do I go about stopping anyone closing the form, unless they enter the PIN?
The Form.FormClosing event is what you should handle. It supplies a FormClosingEventArgs argument with CloseReason and Cancel properties. This could be used to roughly handle your scenario.
This answer is not meant to turn your WinForms/Win7 app into a kiosk app. At best, you can prevent Alt+F4 or mouse attempts to close your applications. Do not waste your time trying to circumvent app switching. If Win 8 with kiosk mode is not a viable option for you, don't promise the same to your end users. In all other cases, your end users will have access to the whole OS at the level of the user currently signed in.
In my application I perform an operation which causes an internal Android app to pop up AlertDialog over my application.
Is it possible to somehow dismiss this Dialog programmatically? Unfortunately I can't find the access to this Dialog object.
I've tried overriding onCreateDialog() method in my Activity, but as my Activity is not an originator of Dialog window, this method is not being called when it pops up.
I was also thinking about getting list of all objects that appear on the screen, but I assume there's no such method?
To my understanding you are doing something that is requiring some user interaction, like bluetooth pairing, in which case this Dialog is brought up by the system... possibly (System Dialog) which is not controlled by you. To solve this...
One thing you can try is:
Intent closeDialog = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CLOSE_SYSTEM_DIALOGS);
sendBroadcast(closeDialog);
public static final String ACTION_CLOSE_SYSTEM_DIALOGS
Added in API level 1 Broadcast Action: This is broadcast when a user
action should request a temporary system dialog to dismiss. Some
examples of temporary system dialogs are the notification window-shade
and the recent tasks dialog.
Constant Value: "android.intent.action.CLOSE_SYSTEM_DIALOGS"
I am writing an application in VB.Net in which a user can schedule emails to be sent in the future. Is there a way to keep my listener thread running in the background after the base form on the application is closed? I would also need to start up the listener when the system boots, but wouldn't want any forms to open at that time.
Example (desired) functionality: I open the application in the morning and schedule three emails, one of which should be sent in three hours, and the other two of which should be sent tomorrow morning. I close the application. In three hours, the first one sends. At the end of the day, I shut down my machine. When I turn it back on tomorrow morning, the other two are sent without me ever opening the application.
I am thinking I need to separate the listener into a service, but want to make sure there isn't an easier way before going down that road.
If I do end up having a separate service and application, can I create an installer that will install both at once?
In the options of your project, set the “Startup Object” to “Sub Main” instead of of a form name. You might have to disable the setting “Application Framework” first.
Now you have to launch the form manually because it’s no longer done automatically, but on the other hand you can now control when to launch it, and your application will exit when it reaches the end of the Main method (or when it’s quit explicitly) rather than when the form closes.
If all you want is to keep the program running, you could supply it with the definition for a TaskBar icon, and represent state in your application using the icon's graphic. It would appear over on the right next to the system clock.
Then it's just a matter of reconfiguring your development project so that the application close event is triggered off that icon's menu instead of off the fact that the form is closed.
Use a NotifyIcon control and when the user close the mainform capture the OnClosing Event to Ask the Question if he want to minimize to the tray or exit the application.
Here is the documentation of NotifyIcon control from Microsoft:
NotifyIcon Control
I have a possible solution for you here. In the form closing event you can place the following code:
Private Sub Form1_FormClosing(sender As Object, e As System.Windows.Forms.FormClosingEventArgs) Handles Me.FormClosing
Me.Visible = False
e.Cancel = True
End Sub
This will hide the form and allow it to run in the background until you shutdown the computer. To handle the restart and then send emails I'd suggest adding the emails to be sent to a text file that can be accessed after restart and then adding the program to startup. An even better solution might be to have 2 programs, one that is on startup and is always hidden that checks the text file every 15 minutes (for example) and a second program that is launched when a new email is to be added to the list and it appends the text file with new emails to be sent.
(Sorry if i am wrong, just proposing a probable solution here)
I think attaching a simple db to hold the email sending schedule information/date-time and loading the application at startup with Notification Icon (or without Notification Icon but with a shortcut to show user interface/form to feed the emails and schedule information/date-time, if required + BackgroundWorker, if you want the application to go to sleep mode and wake it later to send first scheduled email; after X hours). After sending first email update the db then exit the application. Check the db on startup to send the first email or go to sleep mode if pc boots before sending first email. But, if first email is already sent then send other two scheduled emails (check db date-time). This should do the job...
:)
In VB 2008, I am using the class 'process' to launch and external application with a few parameters. Does anybody knows how can I send it programmatically to second monitor?
Also, is there any way to know how many monitors are activated?
Thanks.
You can locate your form on a different screen.
form.Location = Screen.AllScreens(1).Bounds.Location + new Point(100, 100)
When you launch an application, use the Process Handle to get the Window (hWnd). It's this hWnd value that windows API uses.
You will need to use the SetWindowRect method imported from User32.dll (see last link)
See also
Screen Class
VB .NET Dual Monitor
Get Window Handles Associated With Process in vb.net
Egghead Cage - hwnd position
MSDN - SetWindowRect API Call