Autostart muliple exe's packaged in same sis

[juannoguera]

I have a SIS with three executables (exe1, exe2 and exe3).

I want two of them, exe1 and exe2, to autostart when the phone boots.

Following a lead from a previous thread, I created the SIS using the UID for exe1 (0xEB2A9C95).
In the autostart resource (EB2A9C95.rss) for exe1 I added the paths two exe1 and exe2 in the following way:

RESOURCE STARTUP_ITEM_INFO startexe
{
executable_name = "!:\\sys\\bin\\GMPBServer.exe";
executable_name = "!:\\sys\\bin\\GmpbSmsClient.exe";
recovery = EStartupItemExPolicyNone;
}

the pkg to create the sis is the following:

;Language - standard language definitions
&EN

; standard SIS file header
#{"Exe1Project"},(0xEB2A9C95),1,0,0

;Localised Vendor name
%{"aCompany"}

;Unique Vendor name
:"aCompany"

;Supports Series 60 v 3.0
[0x101F7961], 0, 0, 0, {"Series60ProductID"}

;Files to install

;GMPB Server
"$(EPOCROOT)Epoc32\release\$(PLATFORM)\$(TARGET)\GMPBServer.exe"	-"!:\sys\bin\GMPBServer.exe",FR,RI
"$(EPOCROOT)Epoc32\data\z\resource\apps\EB2A9C95.rsc" 			-"c:\private\101f875a\import\[EB2A9C95].rsc"

;Remove Installed files
""-"C:\Data\Gmpb\*",FN
""-"C:\Data\Gmpb\",FN

;SMS Client
"$(EPOCROOT)Epoc32\data\z\resource\apps\GmpbSmsClient.r04"		-"!:\resource\apps\GmpbSmsClient.r04"
"$(EPOCROOT)Epoc32\data\z\private\10003a3f\apps\GmpbSmsClient_reg.r04"	-"!:\private\10003a3f\import\apps\GmpbSmsClient_reg.r04"
"$(EPOCROOT)epoc32\data\z\resource\apps\GmpbSmsClient.mbm" 		-"!:\resource\apps\GmpbSmsClient.mbm"
"C:\Symbian\Carbide\workspace\GmpbSmsClient\sis\startonboot.txt"	-"!:\private\EDAAB288\startonboot.txt"
"$(EPOCROOT)Epoc32\release\$(PLATFORM)\$(TARGET)\GmpbSmsClient.exe"	-"!:\sys\bin\GmpbSmsClient.exe",FR,RI

;SeguridadSymbian
"$(EPOCROOT)Epoc32\release\$(PLATFORM)\$(TARGET)\SeguridadSymbian.exe"	-"!:\sys\bin\SeguridadSymbian.exe"
"$(EPOCROOT)Epoc32\data\z\resource\apps\SeguridadSymbian.r04"		-"!:\resource\apps\SeguridadSymbian.r04"
"$(EPOCROOT)Epoc32\data\z\private\10003a3f\apps\SeguridadSymbian_reg.r04" -"!:\private\10003a3f\import\apps\SeguridadSymbian_reg.r04"
"$(EPOCROOT)epoc32\data\z\resource\apps\SeguridadSymbian.mbm" -"!:\resource\apps\SeguridadSymbian.mbm"

;Remove Installed files
""	-"C:\Data\SS\*",FN
""	-"C:\Data\SS\",FN

What I am getting is that exe2 autostarts but exe1 does not.

Is this the correct way to do this?

[aficianado_001]

Never did like this. Start exe1 as autostart and from exe1 lauch exe2.

[aamitgupta]

Through AutoStartUP API you can set autostart functionality in your root exe means the exe UID is same as PKG file and through this EXE you can launch many of the exes.

[juannoguera]

after some trial and error, I finally got it right. Was only a stupid mistake:

RESOURCE STARTUP_ITEM_INFO gmpb
{
executable_name = "!:\\sys\\bin\\GMPBServer.exe";
recovery = EStartupItemExPolicyNone;
}
RESOURCE STARTUP_ITEM_INFO gmpbsms
{
executable_name = "!:\\sys\\bin\\GmpbSmsClient.exe";
recovery = EStartupItemExPolicyNone;
}

instead of the previous STARTUP_ITEM_INFO

[aamitgupta]

after some trial and error, I finally got it right. Was only a stupid mistake:

RESOURCE STARTUP_ITEM_INFO gmpb
{
executable_name = "!:\\sys\\bin\\GMPBServer.exe";
recovery = EStartupItemExPolicyNone;
}
RESOURCE STARTUP_ITEM_INFO gmpbsms
{
executable_name = "!:\\sys\\bin\\GmpbSmsClient.exe";
recovery = EStartupItemExPolicyNone;
}

instead of the previous STARTUP_ITEM_INFO

Means you can launch multiple exe from one PKG?

If yes then can you eleborate how can di this? these Resource STARTUP_ITEM_INFO function you set in same rss file or all the exe RSS file?

[juannoguera]

Yes, I could get the two exe's to autostart. And they are packed in the same sis.

Put the two STARTUP_ITEM_INFO in the same RSS file.

You have to take care though, on letting the user disable the autostart feature on each exe individually. I think that this is mandatory to comply with Symbian Signed Criteria.

I'll try to contribute this in the Wiki during the weekend.

[ltomuta]

Means you can launch multiple exe from one PKG?

If yes then can you eleborate how can di this? these Resource STARTUP_ITEM_INFO function you set in same rss file or all the exe RSS file?

There is documentation for this in the SDK, and as I remember this use case is mentioned there as well.

[aamitgupta]

Yes, I could get the two exe's to autostart. And they are packed in the same sis.

Put the two STARTUP_ITEM_INFO in the same RSS file.

You have to take care though, on letting the user disable the autostart feature on each exe individually. I think that this is mandatory to comply with Symbian Signed Criteria.

I'll try to contribute this in the Wiki during the weekend.

Thanks for give me the information.