At 4:08 PM +0100 2001/07/20, John Roberts wrote:
>Normally, the hard keys 1-4 will wake up a sleeping Palm and get processed
>by the current application in the normal way. However, the up/down hardkeys
>don't seem to do that. Any clues to how I can handle up/down hard key
>presses while the Palm is sleeping? I'd like to do some processing and won't
>necessarily need to turn the screen on.
>
>(Aparantly m500/5s do wake up on key up - so maybe this is a feature of
>PalmOS 4.0).
It depends entirely on the hardware design. With most Palm OS devices, the page
up/down keys do not generate a wake-up interrupt to the CPU. It is not possible to add
this feature via software for those devices which do not already support it.
Regards,
Jim Schram
Palm Incorporated
Partner Engineering
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