In article <48725@palm-dev-forum>, "John Crouch"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to create my own battery meter to visually display the battery
> level when my app is running. I have searched the Palm app source code as
> well as the newsgroup for ideas on how to do this but could not find
> anything.
>
> I am particularly interested in:
>
> 1. How to display the visual battery on the screen. Some sort of gadget
> with a bitmap on top of it perhaps?
>
> 2. How to continually poll the battery so the display can be updated? Would
> it be best to do this with an alarm, and if so how often is a reasonable
> amount of elapsed time without hogging processor time.
>
> If anyone can steer me in the right direction on how to do this I would
> appreciate it. Thanks.
You may want to take a look at "Battery Panel"
<http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Cable/5206/batterypanel.htm> which
does display its own battery meter. It comes free with source code (GPL).
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Remo Hofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Cable/5206/
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