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alt236
02-08-2008, 06:04 PM
This application will allow you to select up to soft reset your Palm and have an application executed right after the reset has finished (effectively taking the place of "Prefs" for one reset circle).

I wrote this app for a friend of mine who is using TomTom on his TX and he needs to reset almost every time he wants to use it. Since doing that while driving can be a bit complicated, this app simplified things a bit.

One advantage for all users (and especially for zLauncher users :p) is that you can start a heap/DB cache hungry application bypassing the launcher completely. On a side note, it helped quite a lot with PalmDOSBox :)

In addition, it makes the reset/wait for it to finish/go to launcher/select app procedure a bit more streamlined.

Just a couple of things to be aware of:

Dont forget to select the correct (system) program that normally gets executed after a reset in the application preferences. By default, it is Prefs, although as I recall Treos have a different one.
Keep in mind that nothing bad should happen if you set a wrong application.
One preference item you might want to tweak is "Delay before Launch".
After a reset is finished, the system will poll applications to see if the need to do anything. In addition, some drivers might get loaded at that time, and the OS is polling for external cards.
This value indicates how long the R&R should wait before actually launching the selected application. Setting it too high will just increase the delay before the selected app is launched, while setting it to low will not let other things to be load as needed. If the selected app exhibits any weird behaviour (like being unable to access VFS or if the UDMH setting seem to make no difference), then increase it a bit and try again.


You can find it here: http://www.1src.com/freeware/fileinfo.php?id=1796
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Traditional disclaimers apply.
I’m not responsible for any damage this software inflicts on your data or device. Use at your own risk.

Mind you, it shouldn’t do anything that can cause any damage.

alt236
02-08-2008, 06:09 PM
Feedback and bug reports are of course welcome, although I might not be able to respond as fast as I would like as I broke my TX last week...

I should be getting a new one next week though.

vovka1965
02-08-2008, 06:43 PM
Can you explain the difference between this app and some others like 2playme which allow you to choose which program will execute upon soft reset?

alt236
02-08-2008, 06:50 PM
The program allows you to configure a list of 6 applications.

When you click on any of them, the palm will soft reset and the application will automatically execute after the reset finishes. The original run-after-reset application will the get restored, so that consecutive resets will behave normally.

The difference is that unlike 2playme, R&R allows one-off executions after reset (although nothing stops you from making them permanent).

acy2yiu
05-13-2008, 02:19 PM
Best thing about this utility is the delay function. Some apps do not start properly right after a soft reset if the required drivers have not loaded (e.g. TomTom 6) I have been using SoftReset for a while. Now switched to this one. Great work!