Add backlight control for new HP's?

[plmills]

Hi - first-time poster here - I'm glad to find this forum - thanks for making it available...

I am running Battery Pack on a new iPaq h1940 w/PPC2003. I know that the screen backlight control function only works with the Toshiba units.

However, I read in the Journal Bar forum that the developer was getting an iPaq h2215 model, and was hoping maybe for some support for the iPaq's backlight brightness in a future version of Battery Bar.

I used to use the Spb Pocket Plus, and it was able to control my old iPaq h1910's screen brightness, so apparently the iPaq allows control of it from a third-party application.

I really like the Battery Bar, but would enjoy it even more if the screen brightness slider could be made to work.

Thanks for listening...

[Wormy]

BP version 5.0.6 is now available... I think you'll find that all works just fine :)

[plmills]

Originally written by Wormy! on 4/7/2003 3:06 PM

BP version 5.0.6 is now available... I think you'll find that all works just fine :)

Hmmm... Unfortunatly, I have version 5.0.6 and the backlight slider control does not change my h1940's backlight setting at all. I assumed, since the OmegaOne website specifically says only the Toshiba machines are supported for this feature, that this was by design - hence my request for a feature addition.

If the feature is actually *supposed* to work with the iPaq's now, then something isn't quite right with my setup.

Thanks for any further information you might have on this...

Pat Mills

[OmegaOne]

v5.0.6 of Battery Pack unfortunately does not control the backlight brightness for 19xx series iPAQs, mainly due to the fact that HP didn't supply a standard way to control the brightness, and I haven't worked out how to do it any other way yet... :) It DOES support the 2215 however (as this supports HP's own standard backlight functions), and has been tested to work.

[plmills]

Originally written by omegaone on 5/7/2003 8:34 AM

v5.0.6 of Battery Pack unfortunately does not control the backlight brightness for 19xx series iPAQs, mainly due to the fact that HP didn't supply a standard way to control the brightness[snip]

<sigh> - Well, thanks for taking the time to reply. I *will* say that, unless the design has changed for the h1940 from the h1910, the backlight is controllable via third-party software, since I had been using the Spb Pocket Plus software before I discovered the (IMO) much superior Battery Pack, and its backlight slider was able to control the h1910's backlight.

I don't know what kind of debugging tools are available for PPC development, but if an API call-tracer is available, you could possibly watch how the Spb software is doing it... (however, I may be the only person interested in it, so its probably just not worth pursuing...)

Anyway, thanks again for the info, and for your time. I really enjoy the great features of the Battery Pack software. I can't imagine using my PPC without it.

Pat Mills

[OmegaOne]

I'm always trying to improve the products, so will see what I can do to get the backlight supported on the 19xx devices (I am pretty sure it would work the same for all these devices). It's in my interest too - the 1910 is my daily device also!