Hi



I've finally managed to get SkyDemon InFlight running on my Navigon 8410. This is a recent WinCE 6.0 device with a bright 5" touch screen - ideal for running in-flight GPS software on. I've looked at all the aviation GPS software for WinCE and the SkyDemon package seems to be by far the clearest, most intuitive software to use - PocketFMS feels dated and sluggish in comparison and has a lot of catching up to do.



I can get the SkyDemon InFlight software to start up, load the map, and very quickly acquire a GPS position. I can pan around the map and zoom in and out. However, certain actions cause an exception in the constructor of InputPanel:



NotSupportedException

at Microsoft.AGL.Common.MISC.HandleAr(PAL_ERROR ar)

at Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms.InputPanel...ctor()

at ...



For example, the exception occurs:



* On the Edit Route dialog when I click the "Start Route" button.

* When I choose "Chart --> Find Waypoint...".

* When I choose "Tools --> Toggle Keyboard".



I'm not familiar with .NET CF development, but a bit of Googling suggests that it's quite a common problem to do with trying to display the on-screen keyboard.



Any help would be appreciated - I'd really like to use SkyDemon.



Cheers

After a bit more investigation it seems that the Navigon 8410 lacks \Windows\softkb.dll which is required for the standard on-screen keyboard (it also lacks things like explorer.exe, so it's definitely running a trimmed-down installation of Windows CE).



Apparently it's quite common for these devices to be trimmed down to this extent, so there are alternative keyboard applications out there to be run in the background and pulled up manually when necessary. If InFlight caught the exceptions I'm seeing so that it didn't crash, I'd be able to use a third-party keyboard application alongside it. (For comparison, when PocketFMS needs a keyboard it pulls up a software keyboard which is clearly hard-coded into the application.)