>From what I understand, the button on the cradle simple shorts a couple of
pins to wake up the Palm and tell it to sync.. I don't know that you can
simulate that button. There are other people on the list that might chime in
here.. its out of my expertise. :)
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Bradly J. Barton - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jenies Technologies Incorporated
(972) 602-1835
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 3:47 AM
Subject: Re: Programmatically perform a HotSync
> What about simulating a hotsync "keypress". i.e. put the hotsync virtual
key
> in the pen queue? I am guessing here by the way...
>
> Bradly J. Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:18858@palm-dev-forum...
> >
> > What you need to do is launch the HotSync manager with either the
> > sysAppLaunchCmdSyncRequestLocal or sysAppLaunchCmdSyncRequestRemote
> command.
> > You can use SysAppLaunch or SysUIAppSwitch function to do it.
> >
> > You can try this, but this function has not been tested.. it is
something
> > that was written in this email and based on something written to launch
> > clipper.. (Please let me know if this works /grin):
> >
> > Err StartLocalHotsync(UInt alertbox)
> > {
> > Err err;
> > DmSearchStateType searchState;
> > UInt cardNo;
> > LocalID dbID;
> >
> > // find hotsync and launch it
> > err = DmGetNextDatabaseByTypeCreator (true, &searchState,
> > sysFileTApplication,
> > sysFileCSync, true,
> > &cardNo, &dbID);
> > if (err)
> > FrmAlert(alertbox);
> > else
> > err = SysUIAppSwitch(cardNo, dbID,
sysAppLaunchCmdSyncRequestLocal,
> > NULL);
> >
> > return err;
> > }
> >
> > (sysFileCSync is declared in SystemResources.h, by the way)
> >
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> > Bradly J. Barton - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Jenies Technologies Incorporated
> > (972) 602-1835
> > http://www.JTI.net
> > http://PalmInHand.com
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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