Bring an application from the background to the foreground on a key press.

[razas]

Hi !


First of all Id like you to forgive a Symbian C++ novice (thats me !!!) for asking a question thats been asked so many times on this forum.Having said that,let me proceed...puhleeez ;)
I wrote an application that goes into the background and after 5 secs comes back to the foreground. What I want to do now is that instead of the preset time interval of 5 secs the application should come to the foreground whenever a key is pressed by the user.
I know about the CaptureKey() event of the RWindowGroup class. However ,being new to Symbian C++, I was not able to make much sense of the sdk docs . The code fragments that I came across in the forums gave me some idea but Im still not able to implement the functionality I want.
Hence Id really appreciate it if you could provide me a link to some tutorial or complete source code that demonstrates the CaptureKey() method in detail.

Thank you. :-)

[jtjk]

Look SDK help for TApaTask (BringToForeground) and TApaTaskList

[giridharn]

include this code in ur container/view class constructl

iEikonEnv->RootWin().CaptureKey( EKeyYes, 0, 0 );
iEikonEnv->RootWin().CaptureKeyUpAndDowns( EKeyYes, 0, 0 );


upon apps moving background....


TKeyResponse CHelloWorldAppView::OfferKeyEventL(const TKeyEvent& aKeyEvent,TEventCode aType)
{
if ( aKeyEvent.iCode== EKeyYes )
{

iEikonENv->AlertWin(_L("keycaptured"));
return EKeyWasConsumed;
}
return EKeyWasNotConsumed;
}

[razas]

Hi !

I have the following code

TKeyResponse CAppInBackgroundContainer::OfferKeyEventL(const TKeyEvent& aKeyEvent, TEventCode aType)
{

  
     
  if ( aKeyEvent.iCode== EKeyYes )
{

iEikonEnv->AlertWin (_L("keycaptured"));
return EKeyWasConsumed;
}
return EKeyWasNotConsumed;

 iLog.Write(_L("### OfferKeyEventL called ###")); //Log this call


}

And the ConstructL is as follows

void CAppInBackgroundContainer::ConstructL(const TRect& aRect)
{
  CreateWindowL();
  SetRect(aRect);
  InitComponentsL();
  ActivateL();

  User::LeaveIfError(iLog.Connect());
  iLog.CreateLog(_L("AppInBackground"),_L("AppInBackgroundLog"), EFileLoggingModeOverwrite);
  iLog.Write(_L("### ConstructL(const TRect& aRect) = 1 ###"));
    
  
 iEikonEnv->RootWin().CaptureKey( EKeyYes, 0, 0 );
iEikonEnv->RootWin().CaptureKeyUpAndDowns( EKeyYes, 0, 0 ); 

}

It appears from the log that OfferKeyEventL() gets called immediately after ConstructL() and not when any key is pressed while the application is in the background.
I tried replacing EkeyYes with EKeyDial and even that didnt work. Could you plz tell me what am I doing wrong ?

Thank you :-)

[giridharn]

i modified ur code plzz chk this way

TKeyResponse CAppInBackgroundContainer::OfferKeyEventL(const TKeyEvent& aKeyEvent, TEventCode aType)
{

  iLog.Write(_L("### OfferKeyEventL called ###")); //Log this call
     
  if ( aKeyEvent.iCode== EKeyYes )
{

iEikonEnv->AlertWin (_L("keycaptured"));
return EKeyWasConsumed;
}
return EKeyWasNotConsumed;

 


}

And the ConstructL is as follows

void CAppInBackgroundContainer::ConstructL(const TRect& aRect)
{
  CreateWindowL();
  SetRect(aRect);
  InitComponentsL();
  

  User::LeaveIfError(iLog.Connect());
  iLog.CreateLog(_L("AppInBackground"),_L("AppInBackgroundLog"), EFileLoggingModeOverwrite);
  iLog.Write(_L("### ConstructL(const TRect& aRect) = 1 ###"));
    
  
 iEikonEnv->RootWin().CaptureKey( EKeyYes, 0, 0 );
iEikonEnv->RootWin().CaptureKeyUpAndDowns( EKeyYes, 0, 0 ); 
ActivateL();
}

It appears from the log that OfferKeyEventL() gets called immediately after ConstructL() and not when any key is pressed while the application is in the background.
I tried replacing EkeyYes with EKeyDial and even that didnt work. Could you plz tell me what am I doing wrong ?

Thank you :-)[/QUOTE]

[razas]

Thanks gir, it works now :-)

[hmauricio]

Hi!

I am using the following code to test captureKey() in the case no action is made


void CMyAppView::ConstructL(const TRect& aRect)
{
CreateWindowL();
SetRect(aRect);
windowGroup = CEikonEnv::Static()->RootWin();
windowGroup.CaptureKey('#',0,0);
ActivateL();
}


TKeyResponse CMyAppView::OfferKeyEventL(const TKeyEvent& aKeyEvent, TEventCode aType)
{
return EKeyWasNotConsumed
// or
//return CCoeControl::OfferKeyEventL(aKeyEvent, aType);
// none work
}


The problem is the framework never gets to haldle this key when the app is on. So this is the only app that is getting this keyEvent and never passes it to other app.

What is the problem?

Thanks

Hugo

[hmauricio]

Hey can someone halp me in my question!!!???!!?!?!?!?!?

Hugo