Not so fast...
The SysBatInfo call does appropriately adjust the percentage based upon
battery type (at least my 3.0 sources say it does). As you know Nicads
hold steady longer then drop off much faster. This is important if you're
writting a battery utility program ;-)
-MD
>At 1:49 PM -0800 1999/03/06, Bozidar Benc wrote:
>>And what about the battery kind? You should check for it too (MaxVoltage
>>for NiCd is not 3.00 volts).
>
>Unnecessary. All devices running Palm OS versions prior to 3.1 use
>standard alkaline batteries.
>
>You may be thinking NiCd support existed because of the grafitti shortcut
>to switch battery types. Unfortunately, it was never fully implemented nor
>supported in OS versions prior to 3.1 and does not affect the low battery
>thresholds or warning dialogs.
>
>Regards,
>
>Jim Schram
>3Com/Palm Computing
>Partner Engineering
