Including the Taskman Shell

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Although the standard shell is the preferred shell for Windows CE, the Taskman shell is also available. Your Windows CE installation includes source code for the Taskman shell in %_WINCEROOT%\Public\Wceshellfe\Oak\Taskman.

The Taskman shell provides the following features:

  • A full-screen desktop window and a zero-height taskbar window that are registered with the Graphics, Windowing, and Events Subsystem (GWES) so that certain windows can be hidden behind the desktop. Shortcut keys, such as ALT+TAB, CTRL+ESC, and CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE, are sent to the taskbar window.
  • A Task Manager window that lists all of the running top-level windows and enables a user to switch to or stop an application. The shortcut keys ALT+TAB, CTRL+ESC, and CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE invoke the Task Manager window.
  • A Run button that enables a user to launch a file.

The Taskman shell does not support the Standard SDK for Windows CE.

Now that the full source code is available for the standard shell, the Taskman shell is no longer available from the feature Catalog in Platform Builder. To add the Taskman shell to your platform, set the environment variable _SYSGEN_TASKMAN to 1. For more information, see Setting or Clearing an Environment Variable.

**Note   **The Taskman shell cannot run in the same configuration as the standard shell.

See Also

Creating a Custom Shell

Last updated on Wednesday, April 13, 2005

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