After having experienced quite a few applications having huge issues with my hp ipaq rx4240’s backlight(they simply werent ablöe to control it), Yaroslav Goncharov from SPB Software finally provided me with an answer why this happens:
Backlight control code is OEM specific, therefore, we need to add custom
code for every device (sometimes we even need cooperation from the OEM
side). We are planning to implement backlight for hp ipaq rx4240 in one
of future versions.
While I already complained about PalmSource’s ignorance of the hardware button plethora, this really takes madness to a new level.
Why can’t Microsoft define a standard API for backlight control? One that every licensee implements into his hardware somehow, giving developers an unified way to control screen brightness? Could it be that Microsoft wants to promote licensee’s developer programs by putting some of the documentation there instead of at their centralized repository aka MSDN?
What do you think?
Thank you Yaroslav for the information!
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