Pressing the cradle's button shorts together two connections on the device's serial port. The device's hardware has been made to be sensitive to this electrical change. When it happens, the device's hardware causes a cpu interrupt. OS code on the device takes over from there.
If you are planning on licensing Palm OS and building your own hardware, I am sure that you can work around this. Short of such a step, it cannot be done. I would really, really, really like to see this application that you mention that controls the cradle button from a desktop application. I do not believe that it can exist. As to "fire same event", I have no idea what you can be talking about. During an install, tell the user to press the cradle button. Be prepared for the user to fail in this task (users are like that) and write your installer to deal with such a failure. Thousands of developers do it, you can too! -bob mckenzie, palmsource pdx -----Original Message----- From: Monika [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 5:16 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: How can we start HotSync to transfer data into palm ? Hello I saw in some application that they are controlling this credle button press from there Desk Top application. may be some solution is there ? is any one know about this ? or let's thing in differet why , can any one tell me when we are pressing cradle button then on our Computer ( desktop ) what event will fire, so we can try to fire same event. Monika "Gavin Maxwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:96947@palm-dev-forum... > > If you are trying to start the HotSync from your PC then you can forget it > really - it can't be done. The Palm must initiate the HotSync. If you want > to start it from your Palm application then simply post a key event to > simulate the button press (vchrHardCradle). > > > Cheers, > gavin. > > Monika <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:96938@palm-dev-forum... > > > > No you are not getting me > > conduit i made already ! but to transfer data user has to press button on > > cradle , I want to do that pressing cradle event from my machine , and > > before that I want to check that palm is one cradle or not. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Monika > > > > "Brian Ku" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:96935@palm-dev-forum... > > > > > > See the Conduit Development Kit (CDK). You can write a program to queue > > > up the data to transfer to the Palm on the next HotSync. > > > > > > Hope this helps! > > > Brian > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Monika > > > Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 11:53 PM > > > To: Palm Developer Forum > > > Subject: How can we start HotSync to transfer data into palm ? > > > > > > > > > Hello > > > > > > What we are doing , putting palm in Cradle and pressing button of cradle > > > then HotSync will start its it possible that we can do this thing from > > > our program. > > > > > > 1. Can we check from out program that palm is on cradle ? > > > > > > 2. Can we start HotSync from program (pressing button of cradle then > > > HotSync will start ) > > > > > > If yes then please tell me how we can do this ? > > > > > > I am using Power Builder for desktop application. > > > > > > Monika > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, > > > please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
