(Earl Beaman[MS])
12/23/2002 10:44:00 PM
Hi Eric,
I have some information for you regarding this issue.
#1 Always test on the device and not IE. PocketPC devices only support a
subset of IE's DOM object model and events.
#2 The Enter key will not submit the form to the server. This simply won't
work on Pocket IE.
You can use the Text_Changed event, but only after focus changes to another
control. Thus, you will not be able to see the carriage return
/termination character from the barcode scanner in your code until the user
clicks another control.
Use the following code to set focus to a control in the onload event.
<mobile:Form id="Form1" runat="server">
<mobile:Panel id="Panel1" runat="server">
<mobile:DeviceSpecific id="DeviceSpecific1" Runat="server">
<Choice Filter="isHTML32">
<contenttemplate>
<Script for="window" event="onload" language="jscript">
window.alert("HI");
window.Form1.TextBox1.focus();
</Script>
</contenttemplate>
</Choice>
</mobile:DeviceSpecific>
</mobile:Panel>
<mobile:TextBox id="TextBox1" runat="server"
text="mobile:TextBox1"></mobile:TextBox>
<mobile:TextBox id="TextBox2" runat="server"
text="mobile:TextBox2"></mobile:TextBox>
</mobile:Form>
Note that the textboxes are outside of the panel and the device specific.
This avoids names like "_ctl0:TextBox1". You cannot use a name like this
to set focus to a particular control.
An approach that works fairly well is to create a control that simply emits
a javascript statement to set focus to a control specified in the focus
control's properties. This control would have to be the last control on
the page to work correctly.
Earl Beaman
Microsoft Developer Support
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