questions of Palminternals (speed&alarm)

[CGS]

Yesterday I installed Palminternals and I have a coulpe of quick questions:

when I do the speed test I get a result of: 382 in secs 4.
What is this numbers?? my TH55 speed is OK or wrong???

Is there any help or directions of how to use palminternals??

In the alarm, I understand it gave you the next alarm (I have already installed 1xalarm). Is there any way to stop an alarm already scheduled (snooze)?? I'm not sure but I think when I rescheduled a meeting and I have already snooze the alarm stay and will notify me of a meeting I have already canceled or moved.

p.s. Sorry if this is answered in other forum.. I have checked but couldn't find an answer

[igor_n]

In the alarm, I understand it gave you the next alarm (I have already installed 1xalarm). Is there any way to stop an alarm already scheduled (snooze)?? I'm not sure but I think when I rescheduled a meeting and I have already snooze the alarm stay and will notify me of a meeting I have already canceled or moved.


"Alarms" in palm development are different from usual meanings of this word. Alarm is a way to run application in scheduled time. PalmOS allows only one scheduled time per application.

Application is responsible for alarm handling. PalmOS doesn't know about real meaning of alarm execution. Application can display form and play music, or make backup, or download mail.

If application want to handle more than one scheduled events, it can build internal queue and set alarm to the time of the earliest event.

So there is little link between datebook appointments and palmos alarm. Resco Explorer allows to edit alarm time, but it can be dangerous and can't persist over reset.

[CGS]

Thanks. It clarify me somethings..

do you have any tip about the alarms..?? it is not a big issue, but I'm not sure if the new alarm of the re-schedule meeting will efectively warn me after I click "ok" for the "previous snooze alarm"

[CGS]

Igor_n, Ok thanks for the tip...
and by the way thanks for the good Palminternals app!!
I'm still a little confuse on what the "tics" and "seconds" express??
regards,

[JulianL]

Igor_n, Ok thanks for the tip...
and by the way thanks for the good Palminternals app!!
I'm still a little confuse on what the "tics" and "seconds" express??
regards,Don't get too hung up on it, they're essentially both just measures of time. In an operating system like PalmOS a tick is like your heartbeat (but much more regular), so in every second PalmOS will issue a given number of ticks. In the computer world a second is a very long time so Igor also gives you the result in ticks in case you want more granularity than the seconds. Your results sound normal for an out-of-the-box TH55 with no extra software added.

- Julian

[CGS]

Julian
Ok, Thanks a lot,
What its a normal time to get the "date config screen" after a soft reset?? It is taking 30-40 seconds (seems slow to me). I wrote a recent thread about a problem I had wit CO and soft reset speed.

That why I was wooried about my th55 performance / speed.
Thanks

my CO and softreset thread in this link
http://www.1src.com/forums/showthread.php?t=70159

[igor_n]

Thanks. It clarify me somethings..

do you have any tip about the alarms..?? it is not a big issue, but I'm not sure if the new alarm of the re-schedule meeting will efectively warn me after I click "ok" for the "previous snooze alarm"

Try it. Never seen CO, but in theory program should dynamically build queue for each alarm activation. So, when snoozed alarm activates, datebook (and similar) programs should check queue and find that there are no proper appointenments. Check it once. If it works, it should work forever.