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Disappearing icons

Ales Dlabac
Ales Dlabac Page Icon Posted 2004-11-15 5:59 AM
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Some of my icons on my desktop always disappears immediately after soft reset. Icons has default icon (window picture). Anyone can solve this?

I have Jornada 720.


Maybe it's because my programs are installed on Storage Card and not on internal RAM 'cos Storage Card is initalized after desktop is showed up.


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C:Amie Page Icon Posted 2004-11-15 6:43 AM
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Ales,
You hit the nail right on the head.

When you soft reset the device with icons linked to files on the storage card, they will fail to load for a few seconds. This is because there is a second or so's delay while the Storage Card is queried for information, status and whether the device is on AC or battery.

If slot 1 = empty; end
If slot 1 = present then
check pnp id
match pnpid = pass; then begin load driver
match pnpid = fail; check type and attempt to load builtin driver
check device state
device is battery = suspend with prompt
device is AC = finish driver load; power up device
check file system slot 1
file system fail = prompt autorecovery / format
file system ok = mount card
load opening handle
device ready

Repeat simultaniously for slot 2.

The trouble is that the icons on CE are not cached, so have to be requested from the source. On a storage card this can only be done after the 'device ready' stage. However by the time your device reaches the desktop, it's usually only at the power state check, if that.

Fixing it just involves forcing it to redraw, so maximise / minimise an application will do that.
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Henri Page Icon Posted 2004-11-15 3:07 PM
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Hello,

Read my FAQ at:
http://www.yetanotherhomepage.com/j7xx/faq_general.html
under the topic: "The icons on my desktop have all disappeared ?"
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C:Amie Page Icon Posted 2004-11-16 6:14 AM
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When I first read Ales's message that's what I thought perhapse it was. However I concluded you were having icon draw issues rather than an icon vacume.
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