I've been researching this for several hours now, but there is very limited documentation that I've been able to come across. What I'm trying to find out is just how and where the physical act of sliding the keyboard out triggers the screen rotation. Does anyone know if its linked to a hardware button?
If i can find that button i can hook into it, if not I've been looking into writing a Today Screen plugin, which would allow me (i think) even greater flexibility. I only really want the messaging app to appear if I'm on the today screen, if I'm in my email wanting to reply its a bit of a pain. If i can write the plugin to just sit there invisible, i think you would have to be on the today screen for the ScreenOrientation event to be raised. If so i can attempt to go as far as disable the today screen while in landscape mode, thus saving the time to render it before opening the messaging app and instantly pop up my messaging. Sound feasible to anyone? Tips appreciated, as well as good sites with sample code/forums for cf2
vb net or c# programming.