Lunch+ and DIA setting

Lunch+ and DIA setting

Anonymous (79.212.112.x) 13 Oct 2008 13:05

Hi,

I have found a new or old bug ;)
In the default settings under pref I have set, that the DIA should be down and only the Statusbar is visable:
DIA: not checked
STBar: checked
So far so good.

If I now have a program where I want to have the DIA. I set for this program in pref
DIA: checked
STBar: checked
so far so good

Now I additionaly add an action for the Luch+ in events (for the program only or in default this doesn' matter, For my research its was for the program A5)

Now there are 2 different things which can happen:
1st: The DIA comes up in the program (A5) but the lunch+ macro is NOT executed
2nd: The DIA comes up, the lunch+ macro is executed, the DIA goes down.

Both are wrong in my eyes. And also its somehow random, when what happens. Its nearly 50/50

cu
Stefan

Re: Lunch+ and DIA setting

Pgr 13 Oct 2008 15:43

I would love it if Apt actually had a Lunch+ trigger that would fire every day after lunch… :-) but you probably meant launch+ !!

I don't know the answer to your problem, but I have a couple of things worth mentioning:

- there is a known problem with Apt bringing the DIA up or down: it works for the moment, but sometimes fails to stick because somewhere in the depths of Palm OS there is a memory of the DIA state that does not get changed by the Apt action of DIA up or down. Perhaps this could explain your "random" behaviour: maybe the DIA is just going back to the state of the last time you changed the DIA manually by tapping the status bar.

- perhaps you can try a different trigger to see if it works, instead of launch+. You can try Idle(1) which will trigger one second after launch if you don't touch anything.

If you care to share what actions you have in your launch+ trigger, that might also shed some light on the issue…

Good luck!

Re: Lunch+ and DIA setting

Anonymous (79.212.112.x) 13 Oct 2008 16:41

Thx, yes this is a nice typo and so many different variation ;)

At the moment i want to set an variable and the auto off timer.

The things with the dia I know. Its really down also the palmos intern state. So what apt should do is just to show it. So this random doesn't have something to do with the palm os intern state, because its every time the same (down).
I use it for my dictionary when I want to look up something and I'm a impatient person, so maybe the idle thing will solve the problem, but I'm sure I will do my input before this 1 second.

cu
Stefan

Re: Lunch+ and DIA setting

Pgr 13 Oct 2008 18:34

Hhmm… I know what you mean, 1 second can be too much for impatient people like you (and me!).

Perhaps you could try the +Form trigger - you would have to find out the ID of the main form on A5. I don't know if this makes any difference when compared to launch+, but it's worth a try…

Another idea: how is A5 launched? If it's from Apt, you could try doing these actions on the launching script of the previous app (or *default*), not on the A5 launch+ script. Maybe it could work that way…