How to put an icon..

[santu.paul@gmail.com]

Hi All,

I am working in symbian S60 3rd edition. And i want to put an icon on top right corner of the idle screen of the handset,near to the battery charge level from my application. I am not getting any idea how to do that. Please help me to do that.

Regards,
Santu

[santu.paul@gmail.com]

Hi All,

Is there any way to do this? If then please give me some idea. Its a bit urgent.

Regards,
Santu

[kishore84]

Check this thread code given there is bit similar to ur requirement.

u can use EEikStatusPaneUidBattery and CAknNavigationControlContainer class.

http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...015#post439015

Thanks

[santu.paul@gmail.com]

Hi kishore,

I want to put an icon on the idle screen of the handset from our application not on the application. I can put an icon at any place of my application. But i want to put on the background of the idle screen of the handset. Can anyone give me some idea how to do that? Please show me the way to do that.

Regards,
Santu

[stenlik]

Hi,

yes you can do it - but you have to care manually about many things starting with the Idle screen detection, intializaton of many classes, screen resolutions, key/pointers handling, etc. Doing it properly is not an easy task. Also the process, which will display the icon will be probably the non-GUI EXE file running in the background. It is pquite tricky to make all those things wokring properly together.

The basic idea how to implement such things is described here:
http://pushl.com/developers/exeui.html
http://developer.sonyericsson.com/si...itmap_uiq3.jsp
http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...ad.php?t=13390

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[santu.paul@gmail.com]

Hi All,

Can anyone tell me how to access the idle screen of the Handset? I am working on symbian S60 3rd edition.

Regards,
Santu

[santu.paul@gmail.com]

Hi,

I am waiting for your reply. How to access the idle screen of the handset from a console application? Any idea will be a great help.

Regards,
Santu

[wizard_hu_]

Patience is a virtue. I have already seen two other threads from with a variant of this last question. Both of them are actually answered. Also note that since you are already aware of TApaTask, you can think not only in SendToBackground of your console executable, but you can also think of BringToForeground of an other one - like the Phone application in this case.

[stenlik]

Hi santu.paul@gmail.com,

what is wrong with my recomendations? Did you check them?

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[santu.paul@gmail.com]

Hi Stenlik,

Nothing wrong with your recommendation. But i am not getting the path right. From where to start. And i am not able to detect the idle screen of the handset. Can i use .bmp files in console application? I want to put an icon in the idle screen so i added the bmp files in the .mmp file. At compile time it doesn't give any error but when i try to install it it show an error unable to update. What may be the reason?

Regards,
Santu

[stenlik]

Hi,

As far as I know there is not any API to detect the phone stand-by screen directly. You have to monitor WSERV events (e.g. EEventFocusGroupChanged), then look what is the top most application by checking its UID. For StandBy screen/application it is 0x101fd64c (http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...d.php?t=104212).

This link might be also usefull for you: http://www.newlc.com/How-to-draw-an-Icon-on-the.html

Regarding the installation problem - so you were able to build the application, pack it into sis file (makesis) and sign it (signsis)? Then it shows some update error when you are trying to install it on the device? Then follwoing links might give you the answer for your installer question:
http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.ph...roubleshooting
http://developer.sonyericsson.com/docs/DOC-1680
http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/an...60-3rd-edition

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