On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Timothy Astle wrote:
> I currently have a splash screen (with a checkbox on it to disable it) in my
> application. It will stay displayed for X seconds until the time
> requirement is met, then a press anywhere on the screen will move it to the
> next form.
>
> However, I would like it to automatically go to the next form. I've read
> the old newsgroup postings about doing similar things to this, which
> specified using EvtGetEvent(...), etc. to accomplish this. I am however,
> still not entirely sure how to pull off the timed "move to the next form"
> procedure. I already have an event handler set up for the splash screen,
> which I am using for detecting clicks on my checkbox.
>
> Does anyone have an example they could post so that I could see how this
> timed splash screen implmentation works? I'd really appreciate it because I
> haven't done much with putting events into the queue in the Palm OS, and
> there seems to be a lot of taboos with SystemTimers and such.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Timothy D. Astle
Why not just load the next form using FrmGotoForm()? You probably don't
need to generate an event, etc.. FrmGotoForm should handle all this for
you.
Something like: (semi-psuedo code)
EvtGetEvent(eventP, timeout);
counter += 1;
if(counter == 100) {
FrmGotoForm(nextFormID);
}
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