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Battery Driver Functions (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)

1/6/2010

The following table shows the battery driver functions with a description of the purpose of each.

Programming element Description

BatteryDrvrGetLevels

This function returns the number of levels that the battery driver is capable of returning in the BatteryFlag and BackupBatteryFlag members of the SYSTEM_POWER_STATUS_EX2 structure.

BatteryDrvrSupportsChangeNotification

This function indicates whether the battery driver can report whether the batteries were changed.

BatteryGetLifeTimeInfo

This function retrieves the time the user changed the batteries, the amount of time they used the batteries, and the amount of time they used the batteries before replacing them.

BatteryNotifyOfTimeChange

This function adjusts times to account for the user changing the real time.

BatteryPDDDeinitialize

This function allows the battery PDD to perform hardware-specific cleanup.

BatteryPDDGetLevels

This function indicates how many battery levels are reported in the BatteryFlag and BackupBatteryFlag members of the SYSTEM_POWER_STATUS_EX2 structure filled in by BatteryPDDGetStatus.

BatteryPDDGetStatus

This function obtains the most current battery and power status available on the platform. It fills in the structures pointed to by its parameters.

BatteryPDDInitialize

This function allows the battery PDD to perform hardware-specific initialization.

BatteryPDDPowerHandler

This power callback performs hardware-specific processing for the battery driver.

BatteryPDDResume

This function performs hardware-specific battery processing in a thread context following system resume.

BatteryPDDSupportsChangeNotification

This function indicates whether the battery driver can report whether the batteries were changed.

PFN_BATTERY_PDD_IOCONTROL

This function signature is for the battery driver custom IOCTL handler. It implements the optional PDD IOCTL interface.

See Also

Other Resources

Battery Driver Reference
System Information Functions