>Two things to add:
>
>First, as of Palm OS 3.5 you can register to be told when the
>unit turns on
>or off, with the Notification Manager. See the documentation;
>it is the
>only 100% safe and reliable way to do this sort of thing
>(which is why we
>put it in the OS!)
That's true. You could use this, if you were 3.5 specific...I can't,
because I program Symbols. =(
>Second, if you're just watching for the keydown event on the
>power button,
>don't forget that people also use that to turn on the
>backlighting! That's
>one of the big complications with hacking this in pre-3.5.
What I did was to check the status of the backlighting in a test.
Forgot to add that...good point!
>And for what it's worth, in general I'd be unhappy if an app I
>was using
>decided to dramatically change its behavior (or even quit)
>when I turned
>off the device. Unless you can't avoid it, or have a really
>good reason,
>like for instance having a network connection be dropped. But
>even then
>having the app quit would seem strange to me. Perhaps you
>have an unusual
>situation.
I agree. Perhaps it's some kind of timer? Or maybe they want to
emulate CE. ;)
-Rus
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