#Windows10 – Disable the #SurfaceDial global menu in a UWP App

Hello!

Today’s post is a fast one, for a specific scenario:

In a Universal Windows Platform App, we must define whether to show or hide the menus when working with a Surface Dial.

To do this, we must access the general configuration of Surface Dial using RadialControllerConfiguration.

The following class shows an example of a global service for a UWP with an operation where this value is validated from the settings of an App.

	using Windows.UI.Input;
	using SurfaceDialApp01.Views;

	namespace SurfaceDialApp01.Services
	{
	public static class SurfaceDialService
	{
	public static async void InitSurfaceDialMenu()
	{
	var surfaceDialConfiguration = RadialControllerConfiguration.GetForCurrentView();
	var ret = await SettingsPage.GetIsSurfaceDialMenuEnabled();
	surfaceDialConfiguration.IsMenuSuppressed = !ret;
	}
	}
	}

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SurfaceDialMenuDisable.cs

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In the GitHub example you can see the complete operation. In short, the option to use or not, the menus of Surface Dial are defined through the settings of the App.

Source Code GitHub

Happy Coding !!!

Saludos @ Toronto

El Bruno

References

El Bruno, Customizing the default menu items in Surface Dial
El Bruno, Working with Multiple Menus with Surface Dial in a UWP View
El Bruno, Rotating maps with C# and Surface Dial in UWP Apps
El Bruno, 2 lines of C# code to handle maps using a Surface Dial
El Bruno, Controlling a Media Player Element with Surface Dial in a Windows Store App
El Bruno, Kind of a Hello World with a Surface Dial in a Windows Store App
Windows Dev Center, Surface Dial Interactions
Canadian Developer Connection, Developing for Surface Dial
Visual Studio MarketPlace, Windows Template Studio

4 responses to “#Windows10 – Disable the #SurfaceDial global menu in a UWP App”

Pablo

May 7, 2018 12:45 AM

Hi Bruno, you think there is some way to hook globally events form surface dial.
I love this little device, but if have to wait every vendor add support for the device……you know, that not happen for every app.
I’m interested in find a way to listen all events form surface dial when the app I’m coding not is on focus.
This open a door, to cerate third party tools for surface dial.
IN other hand I trying to use the customization provided in windows 10, for create custom shortcuts, but I cant find yes anyway anyway to add custom tools programmatically, setup custom icon of the custom tools, etc.
The hotkeys custom tools is a poor way, compared to hook events directly from surface dial, but can be at least some way to do something more useful than sit down to vendors add support, what form my point of view not happen never ever.
Best regards!!

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1. elbruno
  
  May 9, 2018 12:56 PM
  
  Hi Pablo
  
  As far as I know there are no global hooks for the SD. However, it’s still a Bluetooth device, so I think that it will be feasible to subscribe to the device events using standard Bluetooth API operations. It just an idea, I probably need to spend sometime with some bluetooth explorer app to try to understand the messages sent by the device.
  
  Regards
  
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  1. Pablo
    
    Jun 26, 2018 12:58 AM
    
    Thanks for the reply.
    I broken my head to try to find the way to pickup raw events form the BLE, not success.
    Im not lazy, but this is a miles away of my knowledge.
    If you have some free time, please can check how listen the events form the SD?
    And please not universal app, wpf 🙂 please.
    If not have time don’t worry I understand.
    Again, Thanks for you reply !!
    
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Pablo

Jun 26, 2018 1:12 AM

Well, not exactly raw data, the idea is find the way to create c# software always is listening to rotation, clock, and clockwise, and to click on the dial.
When I said always, I mean no matter the software listener app, is or not in focus.

Think will be possible?

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