Thanks, Steven,
basically I was thinking along the same line, except I forgot about the
simple tools such as TimGetTicks(). This is fully enough for my purposes as
what I want to detect is whether the user performed the warm reset a short
time ago.
Thanks again,
Jan Slodicka
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: Is it possible to detect no-notify reset?
> Jan Slodicka wrote:
>
> > there are situations when the activity of some OS "patches" such as
> > PiDirect, Tealscript, hacks etc. may negatively influence the active
> > program. Can somebody advice how to detect their presence? Knowing e.g.
that
> > a warm reset was performed is an important information in this respect.
(So
> > far I don't know how to detect it.)
>
> I don't have a ready made answer, but just an idea I thought I'd share
> since nobody else has come up with anything.
>
> You can detect a reset with notifications by trapping the appropriate
> launch code. Since you only want to detect the notification-less reset
> in your application when your app is launched normally (I presume...?),
> you should handle a reset with notifications. Then, you need to find a
> way to determine if it was reset since the last time you received that
> event (sysAppLaunchCmdSystemReset) or your install event
> (sysAppLaunchCmdSyncNotify).
>
> You should be able to find a way to do that -- the Palm does various
> maintenece functions on a reset. Likely you can detect whether or not it
> has been done. One simple possibility would be to use the ticks since
> startup and the current time, comparing it to the time when you handled
> the rest code, but that may run into issues if the Palm runs a long time
> between resets (very likely). Hopefully you can find one that will work
> for you, or someone else will think of something.
>
> Good luck.
>
> -- Steven Fisher
>
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