I posted this problem several days ago, but didn't get feedback on it...
I have an application that creates alarms. WHen an alarm fires, I use the Trigger event to sound the alarm, and then the Display event to pop up a FrmCustomAlert dialog to the user. (I cannot use the PalmOS alert mechanisms because this needs to run in PalmOS 3.0, not just 4.0+.) Anyhow, very recently, my application now STOPS shutting off automatically when this FrmCustomAlert is displaying. This means that if the user doesn't acknowledge the alarm right away, the battery starts to drain quickly. I never had this problem until recently, even though I haven't changed the alarm code. So, does anyone know what type of actions would prevent the Palm device from automatically shutting off? In all other circumstances, the device shuts off correctly, including in my main screens, as well as alerts from other applications. I've been using the FrmCustomAlert since the beginning, but only recently experienced this. My first thought was that GraffitiAnywhere was causing the problem...because doing some experimenting, I found that if it was disabled, the auto-off feature would work fine. But I now have that application disabled, and my alerts have once again prevented the device from shutting off. I'm pretty clueless as to where to look. In the meantime, I'm going to attempt to just replace a FrmCustomAlert call with an actual Form using FrmPopupForm instead. I don't know yet if this will avoid the situation, but will at least give me more control over the look of the alert screen. Ryan -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
