AutoOff

latest changes:

• 2005-05-19 v1.4
  • enhancement enhanced for 5-nav navigation.
  • enhancement "Exit" button for enhanced support for Treo 600™ and Treo 650™
  • changed from freeware to shareware.

Most of the screenshots are reduced to b/w images to save bandwidth.

	This Palm Application let you set the Auto-Off delay to any value you like to.
	Values less than 10 seconds are not allowed. You can set the delay up to 9999 seconds. If you press the Always On button, auto off is disabled by seeting the value for SysSetAutoOff to zero. For quicker access and switching you can enter three different values, which are stored if you leave the application.
	If you disable the auto off timer a warning will be displyed. In case of a alarm the palm will not switch off. The battery will be drained and you may loose data.
The option check on every App quit registers AutoOff so that it can check the auto-off value after whenever an application quits. Caution! not all Versions of Palm OS™ send send the sysNotifyAppQuittingEvent. How to check if it works: install AutoOff launch AutoOff select the number of seconds after the device should shut down check the option "check on every App quit" launch "Prefs" choose "General" panel change "Auto-off After" time launch AutoOff and "current setting" should show the value you have selected with AutoOff before.
	The about panel appears via shortcut /A.
How it works
	The "General Prefences" Panel stores it values in "Saved Preferences" (pdb). May be the panel looks on your palm enabled device different. The screen shot is from a M505 running PalmOS™ 4.0.
	If you change the settings via that panel, the new value is set in the "Saved Preferences" and the autoOff value within PalmOS (function SysSetAutoOffTime ). PalmOS do not use the value from the Saved Preferences Panel nor the value in the "Saved Preferences" (PDB). Those are in the "Saved Preferences" are just for the display of the autoOff value at the panel.
AutoOff do not change the value in the Saved Preferences for the "General Preferences", just the value for the PalmOS. The values you entered in AutoOff are saved in the "Saved Preferences" too, but in a different record than the "General Preferences" Panel makes use off. I don't want to change the value in the "Saved Preferences" for "General Prefences", because i do not know exactly what side effects it may have. So if you use the Program AutoOff do not get confused by the value shown up in the "General Prefences" panel. The value shown up in Program AutoOff - "current settings" is the value read from PalmOS and not from a record in "Saved Preferences" PDB.

Don't forget to backup your data before using it.
Before using that piece of software make a complete backup of you device (and make sure that the restore will work !). I prefer pilot-xfer or SmartBackup for that job.
Altough i am quite carefull, there might be a bug.

Tested on Palm OS 4.0 and 5.x.

This Software is Nag Free Shareware. You have to buy a License to use it. If you register you will recieve the latest version with the latest enhancements as soon as it is available via eMail. The latest version is not available via download.

A Licence can be bought from www.Palmgear.com ( ).

If you like to buy a licence via the German distributor PDAssi klick here.

Refer to the Document for the Lisence Agreement.

Any distribution of that Software via CD-ROM, Internet or other media without the permission of the author is not allowed.

These applications are distributed as archives files. To extract the original files from an archive, you can use WinZip (.zip) for Windows or StuffIt Expander (.sit) for Macs.

Have a look at that documentation if you don not know how to install the Application. on your PalmOS enabled device.

Any comments are appreciated.

Kind regards

Juergen Schwister

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The latest version is only available for registered users. It is not available via download.

History

• YYYY-MM-DD vX.XX

• 2005-05-19 v1.4
  • enhancement enhanced for 5-nav navigation.
  • enhancement "Exit" button for enhanced support for Treo 600™ and Treo 650™
  • changed from freeware to shareware.

• 2005-03-25 v1.3
  • enhancement new option "check on every App quit" to prevent certain applications to change the auto-off timer from the value set in AutoOff.

• 2003-04-26 v1.2b
  • fixed The value for AutoOff can never be set to a value smaller than 10 seconds, but not zero. During a Softreset the value will be restored at least to 10 secondes, if it was not set to zero

• 2003-02-15 v1.2a
  • fixed Screen redraw problem fixed
  • enhancement New about screen

• 2003-01-26 v1.2
  • enhancement AppIcon is now transparent and color enabled
  • enhancement About Screen changed
  • enhancement HiRes icons added
  • fixed screen refresh problem solved

• 2002-10-25 v1.1
  • enhancement Compiled with Palm SDK 5.0.
    Compatible with Palm OS™ 5.0

• 2001-11-04 v1.0a
  • fixed Auto Off setting now survives a Soft Reset.
  • enhancement Always On Button, to disable AutoOff function.
    Same as setting value to zero.

• 2001-11-01 v1.0
  • Initial Release