The device fall into sleep while it is waiting for an event inside the EvtGetEvent. If the timeout is at 0 it never fall into sleep mode.
-- Regis St-Gelais www.laubrass.com -- "Jan Slodicka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message de news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > That's not true. Test on nilEvent will prevent that. > > Jan Slodicka > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Regis St-Gelais" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum > To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 3:37 PM > Subject: Re: EvtEventAvail unreliable?! > > > > > > > > "Jan Slodicka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message de > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > <snip> > > > Perhaps this should be replaced by > > > > > > while( true ) > > > { > > > EvtGetEvent(&event, 0); > > > if( event.eType == nilEvent ) > > > break ; > > > // do something... > > > } > > > > > > Seems to be smaller and safer code. (By "safer" I mean that it does not > > > introduce unnecessary delays in the situations when they are to be > > avoided.) > > > > > <snip> > > > > This loop will reduce the battery life as the device will never go to > sleep > > between events. > > > > -- > > Regis St-Gelais > > www.laubrass.com > > -- > > > > > > > > -- > > 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/
