Control Panel Applications (Windows CE 5.0)
The Windows 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 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 similar to that on a Handheld PC, which is 480 x 240 pixels or larger. The portrait orientation targets a screen similar to that on a Pocket PC 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
Shell Components | Setting Regional Preferences | Enabling a Backlight | Hiding System Sound Events | Shell OS Design Development
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