Bug on resume from sleep

[d_hero]

I've noticed that when my ipad goes to sleep, ie after i turn it on and have to swipe to unlock, it jumps into the demopad app fine, but its not responsive until ive tapped 1-2 times. So if i want to turn the volume up and the ipad is asleep, i have to unlock the ipad, then press the volume up button. the first time i press it, it doesnt respond, so i have to tap again and then the button responds. This happens on all buttons on every wake up. Not the biggest problem but quite annoying at the same time!

Ideally, i'd like to prevent the ipad from sleeping without using Guided Access (as I can't jump to a different app using guided access), is this a feature in the pipeline? If not, i'd like to add it as a request!

Thanks

[d_hero]

Just in addition, i just realised you dont actually have to tap on the button you want to press, you can touch anywhere in the app to "bring focus" back to the app, if that helps

[d_hero]

any news on if anyone else is seeing this or if there is a fix?

[trevorst]

Have you set the multi tasking and remember last page options in the Demopad settings.

[cv27]

any news on if anyone else is seeing this or if there is a fix?

I'm not seing this issue with my setup; I have DemoPad running on 2 different iPads. I have multitasking = on and I suspect you do as wel or else you wouldn't see the DemoPad app coming out of sleep.

Trevorst suggested turning on "remember last page" but I believe this is useful when the app is unloaded from memory and later restarted. I dont use this option since Multitasking does the job.

You don't mention what devices you're interacting with. I would look into the DemoPad settings for each (ex: Maintain active connection, Disconnect after each command). My Pioneer VSX-1021 consumes the first command I send it to wake up from standby mode: that's another area to investigate.

[d_hero]

The problem is not so much that the devices arent responding straight away or anything, its the the actual demopad software doesnt respond. So, you know how the buttons on demopad change colour when pressed to indicated that they have been pressed, well if I come out of sleep and then immediately press a button, the button doesnt respond, its only the second time that it responds and gets highlighted and does its job. So like i said, its almost like the first tap seems to "bring focus" back to the demopad app, and then it works fine. It's definitely not to do with communication to the devices, its the actual software itself. I have restored the ipad, set up from scratch, reinstalled Demopad, and redownloaded the project and it still does it. Unless there is a project setting somewhere that I am missing, im not sure why its doing it, as im sure that when i first started using demopad, it never did this, only started a few app revisions ago.

[d_hero]

Looking further into this, this may actually be related to what you mentioned here:

http://www.demopad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2934

When the ipad sleeps, its like although the app is still running, its not "alive" and it needs to be brought back to life before being usable.

[trevorst]

All my devices and Demopad respond on the first press after waking, do not have any time related processes so can not comment on the other post.

[cv27]

Looking further into this, this may actually be related to what you mentioned here:

http://www.demopad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2934

When the ipad sleeps, its like although the app is still running, its not "alive" and it needs to be brought back to life before being usable.

That post was related to actual processing (updating the clock display in DemoPad). I'm not an IOS expert, but I believe, as with most modern operating systems, that the interface tasks (key presses, touch gestures) are first handled by the OS, then passed on to the appropriate application for action.

Your situation is intriguing and your last post brings clarity to your issue. My gut feeling still tells me this is a device issue versus DemoPad. Keep in mind those who have responded have no wake up issue such as yours. I can only suggest this:
1- If you can, unload DemoPad from memory, bring up any other (so called) multitasking application, let it sleep and then see how it responds to touch gestures after waking up
2- Install DemoPad onto another iDevice (a friend's iPad or iPhone) and test
3- If running IOS 7+, can you, on 1st attempt, swipe up the IOS control panel after wake up?

Good luck!

[starwarsmike]

What model of iPad you have and version of iOS are you all using. I noticed this issue sometimes on my iPad one but nothing like this ever happens on my new iPad mini.

[cv27]

What model of iPad you have and version of iOS are you all using. I noticed this issue sometimes on my iPad one but nothing like this ever happens on my new iPad mini.

iPad 2 and iPad mini 1st gen, both at IOS 7.0.4

[d_hero]

Mine is ipad mini 1st gen on 7.0.4, but im sure I didnt notice this when it was on ios 6. I will do some further testing though as suggested here

[DemoPad]

This might be a project - specific issue, ie do you have lots of actions on wakeup (particularly 'send data to webite' actions?) or lots of large image files? If you are willing to send your entire project folder into [email protected] we can try to simulate.