ON/OFF button using Microcontrollers

How I do that? Simple: I turn off the PIC with the SLEEP instruction. While the PIC is "sleeping" it is "ON" but the clock will stop, so the program will not continue. The current consumption is only a few micro-amperes. (You need to set the I/O ports to low and disable comparators to ensure the PIC will not draw any voltage thru any port). Once the PIC is on POWER DOWN MODE (or SLEEP Mode) basically it will be OFF until: A Hardware resets occurs. A brown-out/power loss occurs. Watchdog was enabled and it generated a timeout. An extenal interrupt was generated (for example, a Peripheral interrupt) When I need a "power on/off" button, I do use the RESET pin as "on/off" button. An example of this technique is my Air Display. As you can see; when you press the RESET button, you are turning ON the PIC. When the process is done, it turns off by itself with the SLEEP instruction. Now, If you want to turn ON/OFF the PIC then you have to use a little trick: As soon the Microcontroller starts, determine the value of an specific variable is equal to 075h (75 Hex). If the value IS NOT 075h, then set the variable to 075h and continue with the normal process. If the value IS EQUAL to 075h, then set the variable to 00h and execute the SLEEP process (put the Microcontroller to sleep). Why those conditions? Just to determine if the user pressed the reset button to turn the PIC off or on. When the...