#2 Power on/off via T3 Slider

[TW]

A user reports that while running my app that uses
palmresize on his T3:

"While running with an open slider, turn the palm off
by closing the slider. Turn it back on again by
opening the slider. The bottom part of the screen is
not fully redrawn, and the T3 ends up with two status
bars and a black section at the base of the screen.
This happens whether the graffiti area is shown or not
and whether the screen is rotated or not."

Is this a bug in palmresize? Is there something I need
to do in my code to handle this case?

(Is there a way to simulate the slider's opening and
closing in the T3 Simulator?)

Thanks.

Tom

[Alexander R. Pruss]

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Ctrl-up/down simulates the slider.

What puzzles me a little about the report is that as far as I
know, the slider doesn't turn the device off.

[TW]

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If you go to Preferences/Power, there are two check boxes:

1. Power on when opened
2. Power off when closed

The Ctrl-up/down does simulate opening/closing the slider,
but in the Simulator, it still doesn't turn the device
on/off, even with those boxes checked.

[Alexander R. Pruss]

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Closing the slider doesn't turn off the simulated device even
if the prefs are set to do this. Opening it does turn it on in
Plucker, and doesn't seem to cause any screen scewup.

[Alexander R. Pruss]

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Maybe you can try forcing a redraw in your app
(ResizeRefreshCurrentForm() after you get a late wakeup
notification)? If that fixes the problem, I might roll it into
the code?

[TW]

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I believe I've reproduced this in Plucker (1.8). The T3
simulator seems to behave strangely when you use
ctrl-up-arrow and ctrl-down-arrow, but I've been able to see
it like this:

- Open Plucker
- Select Options/Contact the developer
- Do Ctrl-down-arrow to open the slider
- Maximize the screen (hide the graffiti area)
- Press Escape to turn off the power
- Do Ctrl-up-arrow to close the slider
- Escape to turn on the power

The screen is not resized (Send Mail and cancel buttons did
not get moved).