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Control Panel Applications (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)

1/6/2010

The Windows Embedded CE Control Panel allows users to set a variety of system-wide properties, such as mouse sensitivity, network setup, and the desktop color scheme. You can select specific functionality to include in your Control Panel by specifying them in your Cesysgen.bat file. The Windows Embedded CE Control Panel consists of the following three Control Panel modules: Control, Ctlpnl, and Cplmain.

The following table shows the applications that you can add within the Cplmain module. These applications are available by default when you include the Standard Shell component in your run-time image.

Control Panel application Description

Accessib

Accessibility settings.

Backlight

Backlight settings for the Display application.

Certs

Certificate settings.

Colorscheme

System color scheme settings.

Comm

Communications settings.

Datetime

Date, time, and time zone settings, including daylight saving time settings.

Dialing

Dialing locations.

Display

Desktop appearance and background image.

Keyboard

Keyboard settings.

Mouse

Mouse settings.

Network

Network setup.

Owner

User identification information.

Password

Password settings.

Pointercmn

Shared component used by mouse and stylus.

Power

Power management settings.

Remove

Uninstall application.

Sip

Soft input panel settings.

Sounds

Volume and sound settings.

Stylus

Stylus settings.

System

Device operation and performance settings.

The following table shows other Control Panel applications that you can add. Note that these applications will be available only if you choose the corresponding catalog component. For example, Bthpnl is available if you choose the Bluetooth component from the catalog.

Application Description

Bthpnl

Bluetooth settings for wireless communications.

Connpnl

Network and dial-up connection settings.

Dmpnl

Default console panel application to control device management system

Intll, Intlp

Regional settings.

Stguil, Stguip

Storage manager user interface (UI) settings.

In some design templates, for example, the Enterprise Web Pad design template, each applicable Control Panel application supports one of two orientations: landscape or portrait.The landscape orientation targets a screen which is 480 x 240 pixels or larger. The portrait orientation targets a screen which is 240 x 320 pixels or larger. The default orientation is landscape. To use portrait orientation, set the variable SYSGEN_QVGAP.

Platform Builder provides the full source code for all the previously mentioned Control Panel applications so that you can customize them as needed.

Starting with Windows CE 5.0, there is support for a wider set of formats for the background image, based on the image decoder availability. When the appropriate image decoders are included in the run-time image, you can choose among several formats for the background image that include .bmp, .gif, and .jpg. Image decoders are part of the Imaging component in the Platform Builder catalog. For more information about what image decoders are supported by the Imaging component and how they can be included in your run-time image to enable additional formats for the background image, see Imaging OS Design Development.

See Also

Concepts

Control Panel
Shell Components
Setting Regional Preferences
Enabling a Backlight
Configuring System Sound Events

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