Prevent HOME from popping up after timout ?

[Guest The PocketTV Team]

It seems that after a certain timout delay, the HOME screen comes up in fron of the curent application.

I don't know if the delay can be customized, but that's not my point here.

My point is that when an application is active (e.g. playing video), you don't want the HOME screen to pop-up for no reason.

So my question is, how do you prevent, programatically, the home screen from getting activated every 10 min or so ?

Since this is not an OEM-specific issue, I thing this question is directed to MS.

[Guest Vector]

On the phone goto: programs/settings/home screen/at the bottom, set timeout to "never", and then that should work :wink:

[Guest Richie M]

On the phone goto: programs/settings/home screen/at the bottom, set timeout to "never", and then that should work :wink:

No no David, Tristan wants to do it "Programatically" :roll:

Sorry, we dont know, have you tried the MS developers group? :oops: of course you have ;)

[Guest Vector]

oops :oops:, i don't know then :wink:

[Guest Will]

ER?

I was under the impression that for 'logo' certification, the apps cannot have a 'quit'.

Therefor if you disable the 'autohome' function, your app will run constantly.. until the user uses the home or back keys?????

(you can always hack the setting in the registry i guess)..

and if directed at MS, why not post on the dev ng? or have you?

Will

[Guest The PocketTV Team]

Yes, I took the habit of including the word "programatically" all the time, even though we are in a development forum so that should be implied...

No, this has nothing to do with logo certification.

Logo cert says (rightly) that your application should just do nothing and use no CPU time and no timers when inactive (i.e. in the back), and also it should also use no CPU time when it is active, as long as it is not doing anything (e.g. a video player is on PAUSE). This is just good manners.

In any case, we had no answer on the microsoft development newsgroup yet.

[Guest kingbing]

SHIdleTimerReset() is what you want.

[Guest The PocketTV Team]

Yes, thanks, I figured that out and I already poster this answer on the NG, forgot to post it here, sorry...