Does anybody know if there's a way to run an application with the LCD
(display) turned off to conserve power? I've heard that the LCD drains
a lot of power and the application I'm writing doesn't need any
interaction from the screen and may be up and running for a long period
of time. I
Does anybody know if there's a way to run an application with the LCD
(display) turned off to conserve power?
A search of the archives for procedure alarm turned up this post by Jim
Schram:
http://www.escribe.com/computing/pcpqa/m12458.html
I would add another option to Jim's list: lock
Danny,
Thanks for the great references.
It seems the easiest and (unfortunately) sneakiest approach would be to call
the (undocumented) sysTrapHwrDisplaySleep which before OS 3.5 was
sysTrapHwrLCDSleep. This way I wouldn't have to change the overall way my
application runs.
I'm using alarms