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- October 23, 1993
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- Sam's Sensable Sleeper V1.00
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- Brought to you by:
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- Sam's Software Shoppe
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- This package is shareware, if you use it
- you are requested to send $5 to
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- Sam's Software Shoppe
- 220 W. Bell Rd., #2057
- Phoenix, AZ 85023
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- comments to: riedesel@inference.com
-
- What is it?
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- Sam's Sensable Sleeper, when turned on, detects whether you are operating
- by plug or by battery. You may then set the sleep time on your Newton based
- on whether you are using the plug or the battery. Thus, if most of the time
- you use the plug (at your office where your plug is, perhaps), you can set sleep
- to never. When you then carry it around off the plug, you can have the sleep be,
- say, 1 minute. This way, you don't have to always dive through a zillion menus
- just to reset the sleep. You do it once with this package and the package will
- do it for you from then on (if you turn it on).
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- How does it work?
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- Ugh. Via a couple of hacks.
- By setting trace to 'functions, I was able to find the function "BatteryLevel(0)"
- which returns an integer between 0 and 100. So, if the value ever goes below
- 100, then I assume we don't have a plug (probably a safe assumption).
- Unfortunately, while the battery is fresh, I don't know if you have a plug or
- a battery. Anyone know a better way to detect if the Newton is plugged in?
-
- The second thing is a viewIdleScript. This seems to require that the view remain
- open in order to keep the idle script going. Therefore, I hide the view instead
- of closing it when the close box is tapped. Well, then I only want to show it when
- the icon for the package is tapped. Easier said than done. Ever try to change the
- buttonClickScript on those views in the ExtrasDrawer? Everytime the drawer
- is closed those views are gone. Now what? So my viewIdleScript also tries to
- keep the buttonClickScript up to date.
-
- The upshot of this is that I have the viewIdleScript running every second. This is
- so that the buttonClickScript is set appropriately before the user really has
- a chance to get to it.
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- One shouldn't have to go through these contortions to do something simple like
- this? If anyone can recommend how to do what I'm really trying to do, please,
- tell me.
- It bugs me that the code is really quite simple; but to get it to work the way I
- think it should be able to on the Newton is less than trivial (understatement).
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- Recommendations
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- Sam's Software Shoppe recommends that you install this package
- in your internal memory rather than on a card or other storage device.
- The package is simple in concept, but difficult to implement and thus
- won't allow you to remove external storage if you install it on external
- storage.
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- Caveats
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- Sam's Software Shoppe makes no guarantees regarding this product.
- Sam's Software Shoppe is not responsible for any loss resulting from the
- use of this product.
-