On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Does 'Applications' just poll the battery info -- it seems to change the
> > battery status symbol to "charging" almost instantaneouly...
>
> Yes, the apps launcher does poll SysBatteryInfo. The reason the Launcher
> behaves this way is that the operating system also behaves this way - we
> can determine very quickly that the device has entered the charger, and it
> takes a while to determine that its left.
>
> So, unfortunately, you need to poll the "plugged in" value you can get from
> SysBatteryInfo to determine whether or not the device is charging in its
> cradle.
Silly question: is there any way of being woken up when the device enters
the cradle? For that matter, is there any way of telling the V to turn on
automatically when you put it in the cradle? (If it doesn't already, I've
only had the briefest chance to play with a V.)
Hmm, there's lots of battery-hungry decisions you could reverse when AC is
detected: disable auto-power-off, turn the backlight on, disable the
networking timeout, etc. Does the V support any of these out of the box?
(Since you folks are so proud of shortcut-dot-8, I wonder if there are any
other easter eggs. :-)
(Double hmm... Automatic TCP/IP connection when cradle is detected, and
forced TCP/IP kill when cradle is missing. Not very useful for Windows,
but this would work very well under UNIX, assuming you've got NetSync
installed and a PPP daemon running on the cradle's serial port.)
--
Kenneth Albanowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED], CIS: 70705,126)
