RE: Can you run an app with the LCD turned off?

2002-04-02 Thread Danny Epstein
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

Re: Can you run an app with the LCD turned off?

2002-04-02 Thread Scott Schoen
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