I'm trying to determine the best platform on which to develop an industrial application that is effectively "always on". Actually the application does very little most of the time apart from listen on a TCP socket over a WIFI network. When it receives a certain message it needs to wake up, play a sound, and display some diagnostic data to the user.
I haven't yet decided whether to go down the Palm, Pocket PC, or Symbian route, but the Tungsten-C seems like an attractive platform on which to develop this application, mostly due its built-in WIFI. However a couple of questions spring to mind: 1. Presumably, like most handhelds, Tungsten-C will go into standby mode after a period of inactivity. Is it possible within an application to force the OS to inhibit this behaviour? 2. What's the best way to achieve a pseudo-standby state - i.e. keeping my "listening application" alive whilst minimising the overall power consumption? Thanks guys for any thoughts on this. Best... Adam. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
