Home Screen Messages (Windows Mobile Professional)

4/8/2010

Important

This section applies to the Windows Classic Home screen and not the Windows Default Home screen.

The following table shows the Home screen messages for Windows Mobile Professional and Windows Mobile Classic.

Message Description

TODAYM_DRAWWATERMARK

Send this message to ask the Shell to draw a portion of the background (watermark) bitmap.

TODAYM_GETCOLOR

Send this message to get color information for the Home screen.

TODAYM_TOOKSELECTION

Send this message to the parent window of a Home screen item to request selection.

WM_TODAYCUSTOM_ACTION

This message is sent to a Today Custom item upon each press of the action button when it is selected

WM_TODAYCUSTOM_CLEARCACHE

This message is sent to a custom Home screen item's window to indicate that it is about to be unloaded.

WM_TODAYCUSTOM_LOSTSELECTION

This message is sent to a custom Home screen item when it loses selection.

WM_TODAYCUSTOM_QUERYREFRESHCACHE

This message is sent to a custom Home screen item's window to determine whether the data pertaining to the item has been updated or not.

This message is also used to set the cyp member of the TODAYLISTITEM structure to the appropriate height.

WM_TODAYCUSTOM_RECEIVEDSELECTION

This message is sent to a custom Home screen item when it is selected.

WM_TODAYCUSTOM_USERNAVIGATION

This message is sent to the custom Home screen item upon each press of a navigation button when it is selected

DTM_SHOWTODAY

This message is sent to display the Home screen.

See Also

Reference

TODAYLISTITEM

Concepts

Home Screen Reference (Windows Mobile Professional)