Known issues with RScheduler

[manjusg]

Hi all,

1)Is there any Known issues with RScheduler for scheduling GUI applications ?...
For me its working for console application and not for GUI applications

2)How to receive data passed to the task?
ex:
TRAPD(error,iScheduler.ScheduleTask( iTaskInfo, *taskdata, iItemRef.iHandle));
how to get the taskdata when scheduled application starts?

Regards,
manjusg

[vineet.jain]

*taskdata is an HBufC type, so you can read it in a descriptor:

TPtr ptr = taskdata->Des();

[manjusg]

Thanks for the reply,
Actually i am launching one console application from my gui application by using RScheduler..And What i did was just scheduled the console application with some data (i.e taskdata) Using RScheduler and exited the gui application. Now the console application starts exactly at the scheduled time, but i don't know how to get the data that i set when application scheduled(i.e taskdata)?.....

Regards,
manjusg

[ltomuta]

One obvious place to look is in the command line arguments received by the application. Have you checked that?

[manjusg]

No, i have not checked.. I will check and reply..

[manjusg]

One obvious place to look is in the command line arguments received by the application. Have you checked that?

i didn't get the data from the commandline arguments..Any other idea?..

Regards,
manjusg

[aficianado_001]

You can check the task data in your console application by
TBuf<20> args; //<20> change size according to your arguments
User::CommandLine(args);

[ltomuta]

You can check the task data in your console application by
TBuf<20> args; //<20> change size according to your arguments
User::CommandLine(args);

Your idea would be great, if only would not come 30 minutes after we're told that it does not work. Now, any other idea?

[manjusg]

Hi,
one thing i missed to tel is that, in the command line i am getting a file name called "Taskfile_LEGACY" which is created in separate private folder other than console and GUI application and folder name is 10005399.. This folder also contains a file named schedulesbackup.dat....
One more thing is a separate Taskfile_LEGACY is created each time when i make a call to ScheduleTask() , ex:Taskfile[1]_LEGACY is created when i call ScheduleTask() for the second time.

One good thing is the file contains the data which is set at the time of scheduling..But bad thing is, i couldn't successfully read the data from the Taskfile_LEGACY since it contains many NULL values and junk values.
contents of the file is:
"7NULNULNULDLENULNULNULNULNULNULÍçZEOTDC4NULNULNULSOHNULNUL8data to be sent NUL... "and some other junk characters also..

When i tried to read the data from the file.. i got only value "7" but i need to get "data to be sent"....


Regards,
manjusg

[manjusg]

Hi,
Now i am not passing parameters to console program via Rscheduler from GUI application.. Now console application launches at the scheduled time. But there is a problem with the way the scheduler behaves. Scheduler executes my console application if the local time is changed by the user.

Ex: When i set my console program to be launched at 7:00 pm(Daily), it launched at 7.00pm. But when i changed the time to 7.05pm it again launched the application..
How to avoid relaunching the application?....Answer Please..

Regards,
Manjusg

[skumar_rao]

you can take care this issue by passing the next sync time and checking before each time your exe gets launched.

[aficianado_001]

This is logical, because the scheduled timers like At are set to stop on a specific date and time - the timer cannot be kept running anymore because the new set time may no longer be valid or desirable, so the timer passes (KErrAbort) the decision making to whoever started the timer. System time changes do not affect interval timers, because the timer can still complete on time, [n] microseconds from this time onwards.

[manjusg]

you can take care this issue by passing the next sync time and checking before each time your exe gets launched.

Thanks for your reply..
But how to pass next sync time to console application?

Regards.
Manjusg

[skumar_rao]

you can pass it in aTaskData with RScheduler::ScheduleTask()

[manjusg]

This is logical, because the scheduled timers like At are set to stop on a specific date and time - the timer cannot be kept running anymore because the new set time may no longer be valid or desirable, so the timer passes (KErrAbort) the decision making to whoever started the timer. System time changes do not affect interval timers, because the timer can still complete on time, [n] microseconds from this time onwards.

Thanks for the reply,
But alarm application never executes like this. It alarms only once not every time user changes the time. To make my application like that What i need to do?..

Regards,
manjusg