How to have a background server open a contact list?

[yuenfatt]

Okay so I'm stuck here with the final ones. I'm having a server application running on the background, and when it receives a certain event, it has to open up the phonebook dialog for the user to select the contact and pass the corresponding phone number back to the server.

So here's my question, the server is running on a console based listener, which listens for events and acts accordingly. Lets say I should want the to listen to an event and then fireup the phonebook dialog, do I have to open up the phonebook as a new application? or can it be in the same one?

[symbianyucca]

I think you would get it working a lot easier by running a GUI application on that event.

[yuenfatt]

hmm okay, well however the initial start of the program doesn't fire up a GUI. it has to wait for the event before it fires up while at the mean time does other process on other events. Is that possible still?

[symbianyucca]

Sure you can have the background server running in teh background, and staying idle while waiting for the event. And when the event comes, you could use for exmaple RApaLsSession API to run the GUI-app.