I’ve written a little application, OnTopic, which helps time meetings and conferences, displaying a nice timeline of events. My intention is to create something that’s “digital signage” that can be used to display the next meetings in a schedule, or topics within a meeting-- the kind of thing that could be put on a wall, or projected on a big screen.
It all works dandy, except for one little thing: after a few minutes of no activity, the screen blacks out.
I know I have some apps that don’t time out, no matter how long I let them hang around. Short of forcing people to go into their settings and adjust auto-lock, is there anything I can do to keep the screen bright and active while the timer display is up and running? I hate to have people set their screen to auto-lock never just to accomodate this one app.