How to send an application to background or hide it in Maemo using Qt?

[mabdelaal]

Hello All,

I am a new Maemo developer.
I won't to send my application to background.

I tried to hide the Main Window using "QWidget::hide ()", and it success to hide the application but i failed to show it again.

I also tried to minimize the Main Window using "QWidget::setWindowState ( Qt::WindowMinimized )" but it not worked as i won't, it make the application in bottom of other applications.

I won't any method to send the application to background or hide it and show it again.

[divanov]

QWidhet::hide() is a proper way to do what you likely want.

[mabdelaal]

QWidhet::hide() is a proper way to do what you likely want.

Thanks Daniil,

I use it, and it hide the application, but when the user open the application again another instance from the application was opened and the old one still running.

There are two ways to deal with that problem like close the old one using QProcess::start("kill -KILL <old_pid>")), or put a value in a database to inform the old one to show it self, but i have to make a timer for every second to check that value.

I am using the first way, but i am asking if there is a direct way to send application to background in Qt or DBus.

[divanov]

Could you explain, what do you mean by sending application to background?

Apart from that you can use, for example, dbus_bus_request_name and dbus_bus_name_has_owner to limit number of instances of your application.
http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/api/...b5b1d33395679b
http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/api/...9e49ad18e0cb25

[mabdelaal]

Thanks Daniil for your attention,

I used QWidget::hide(), and when the user opens a new instance from the application, I check if there another hidden instance and closes it.

[divanov]

Thanks Daniil for your attention,

I used QWidget::hide(), and when the user opens a new instance from the application, I check if there another hidden instance and closes it.

And why you cannot let user just close it? Since you close it on next instance start any way.

[divanov]

Apart from that you can use, for example, dbus_bus_request_name and dbus_bus_name_has_owner to limit number of instances of your application.
http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/api/...b5b1d33395679b
http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/api/...9e49ad18e0cb25

Or their Qt counterparts:
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/qdbusco...egisterService
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/qdbusco...viceRegistered

[mabdelaal]

Hi all,

I am working on an application that plays a sound every x minutes. user has the ability to hide the application while the sound still works.

I make the main window of the application hidden using QWidget::hide(), and the application became hidden.

But when the user opens the application again (by clicking its icon) a new instance from the application was opened and the hidden instance still working.

how to show the hidden window (when clicking the application icon) instead of opening a new instance of the application?

Thank you

[divanov]

Are you using osso_initialize() in your application?

[mabdelaal]

Are you using osso_initialize() in your application?

No, please tell me how to use it.

Thank you.

[divanov]

There is a wiki article about application integration with DBus.

[mabdelaal]

Thanks a lot.