Some utilities for 1.0

[avid]

As part of my ongoing driver work, I have started to build up a "utility" driver. I will upload this publicly as soon as 1.0 is out. I have not bothered to make a 0.996 version. I expect this to evolve with time.

So far, it has two capabilities:

1. The option to prevent the Pocket PC from suspending while certain panels are displayed and specified variables are changing. By placing a button with a "KeepAwake" driver action on a panel, where the button's IR name is that of a variable, the Pocket PC will not suspend while the variable (e.g. a position counter) is changing. When the variable is no longer changing (e.g. when paused or stopped), the Pocket PC will be able to suspend as normal.

2. A general-purpose text input “button”, which can be edited by the user and will set a NetRemote variable, whose button IR name is that of a variable, to the edited text.

The pre-release for 1.0 (with source, documentation and demo CCF) can be found at
http://brianavid.com/avid/AvidUtilsDriver.zip. Let me know what you think.

Brian

[Rob H]

Any chance of a Win32 version of the Keepawake button that disables the screensaver/power management functions?

Does the text input button work on Win32?

[avid]

Any chance of a Win32 version of the Keepawake button?

I'll try - I need to find what power management functions Win32 offers me.

Does the text input button work on Win32?

Yes it does

Brian

[avid]

Rob,

Any chance of a Win32 version of the Keepawake button?

OK - I've worked out how to do this. Would you be in a position to try it if I upload a new version?

Brian

[Rob H]

Not until Ben uploads the standard NetRemote install - I don't use JRMC at all.

[Ben S]

The general version should be up shortly (in the next few days).

Brian - NRBasic already has a generic text input box. You can see it in both the browser sample and the search field for my 800x600 MC interface. I hope this wasn't too much trouble for you, as it looks like we implemented it the same way.

IR code: 5001 0000 0000 0002 fc19 0000 0030 0000
IR name: The variable name that you want it set to.

Yet another reason that I need to document -fully-.

[avid]

Ah well - the edit box was not that much trouble. I had the bulk of it already in my WMP9 driver, and when I needed a 2nd one I though the time had come to make it more generic.

But yes - if the NRBasic documentation had been there, I probably would not have bothered doing my own. I haven't really been checking out the posted samples recently.

At least I have the option of single-line or multi-line boxes.

Brian

[Aaron]

does the keep alive work on the SimPad?

If it did that would be a step towards a much needed screen saver function.

[avid]

I don't know about SimPads - I use a PPC. What is the problem or requirement? Is is there an existing thread you can point me at? And what OS does the SimPad run?

Brian

[Wilhelm]

Aaron,

why don't you simply disable the suspend? What am I missing?