Re: Customizing the Omnigo

GWRepCami@aol.com
Sun, 19 Jan 1997 00:17:49 -0500 (EST)

In a message dated 97-01-18 23:58:22 EST, wvenable@sfu.ca (Wayne Venables)
writes:

> [uiFeatures]
> launchModel = 1 ;Enable single instance of applications
> exitOnClose = true ;Disable state file creation.
>
> This effectly turns off the creation of State files on the Omnigo.
This
> may or may not be as advantageous as it might seem.
>

To find out what these mean, you have to check the SDK documentation.

Basically, launchModel = 1 allows for single instance startup. Transparent
mode (launchModel = 0) presumes a user level of novice and presumably doesn't
ask any confusing questions on startup of the application to confuse the
user. This behaviour, however, is really determined by the application's
owner or device..in this case, there may be no effect whatsoever if HP didn't
program different user levels into that type of application. Increasing the
number of this only allows you to have multiple instances of a
program...which may be disabled on the OG.. not sure.

exitOnClose = true, does indeed stop state-saving...and a work of
caution..the documents say that setting this and the launchModel to 0 will
cause strange and undefined behaviour of the system...so be very careful.

Lee