Adding calendar alarms

[gybrush]

Hi guys, lately I've been experimenting with the alarm API (RASCliSession).

I've tried to add an alarm with a call to RASCliSession::AlarmAdd, but the trick is that I'm setting the alarm category to the category of a calendar alarm (0x101F4A70). One of the reasons to do so, is because you can actually set different sound for calendar alarms in your phone settings so I just want to have this sound when the alarm notifies.

But to my biggest surprise, when the alarm expiration time comes, it does not show the alarm notification UI. It seems like the calendar is watching the alarms and when an alarm with category 0x101F4A70 tries to pop-up its interface, the calendar server automatically instructs the alarm server to hide the UI - so no notification is visually visible on the screen?

It there a way to make my alarm really present its notification on the screen?

[skumar_rao]

Might be some problem with how you create it. can you show us how you create it ?

[gybrush]

It is as simple as that:

TASShdAlarm alarm;
alarm.Category() = { 0x101F4A70 };

// Alarm occurs once, today. This is the default.
alarm.RepeatDefinition() = EAlarmRepeatDefintionRepeatOnce;
alarm.Message() = _L("Calendar Alarm");

// Get the local time and set it as the alarm's due time
alarm.NextDueTime().HomeTime();

// Add 10 seconds so that we do not wait a whole lot until it expires.
alarm.NextDueTime() += TTimeIntervalSeconds(10);

// WriteUserData capability is required to add an alarm
m_alarmServerSession.AlarmAdd(alarm);

[skumar_rao]

i can see that you have not closed the session is it a typo. http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.ph...o_create_alarm

[gybrush]

Hmm, thanks for the link. It states that the example will "pick the same tone set for the calendar application's alarm" even though it does not explicitly set the category to calendar category. I'll try and see if that is the case.

btw: I'm sure that closing the session has nothing to do with this at all. As I pointed out in my request I observe the behavior only if the alarm category is { 0x101F4A70 }; If I set as category just {0}, then alarm notification screen pops up OK. Closing the session is not a typo. I do keep my session open as long as my application is running.

[skumar_rao]

may be you are facing same problem as mentioned here http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.ph...es_are_ignored