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Related issue...... my Windows Media Player no longer works. This started after installing Metalshard's PocketWar, or perhaps because I was playing around reallocating buttons (including the 'fifth button' that does not exist).
Tully Edson at Metalshard thinks its because the Axim is one button short.... I dont understand this stuff, extract from his email below!.
Steve
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> From: Tully Edson [mailto:tedson@metalshard.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 2:22 PM
> To: Foister, Steve
> Subject: Re: PocketWar Demo on Axim - Media Player no longer works
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> As it turns out one of my testing team has just upgraded to an Axim I will
> have him check to see if his media player is ok.
>
> This is going to sound kind of stupid but how many buttons does the Axim
> have? I am asking this because your problem sounds familiar. On an XDA
> Pocket War (and many other applications) will kill the media player if you
> run them.
>
> What I found out was this...
>
> To get control of the buttons on a pda you call a windows method. The
windows
> method does not check to see if the button exists (and there isn't any way
> to find out.) The windows method adds a registry entry that says the
> non-existing button now exists. Windows media player tries to access the
> buttons directly by walking the registry entries to find out what buttons
to
> attach to. It then tries to attach to the non-existing buttons (and
dies.)
> The net result is it won't start again.
>
> The frustration he is having is it isn't just Pocket War. Many, many
> applications try to map the hardware buttons and they all kill off his
media
> player, so I hope this isn't the same way with the Axim.
>
> I will am going to find out if my other Axim user is ok, and I will try
and
> find the registry entries.
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>
> Tully
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Steve
?First Axim in England?
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