using QTimer to woke up application

[Utoto]

Hi,

I'm need to do some stuf at specific time. In Android I use AlarmManager to do this but in qt I don't know how to do it. With in my experience with qt, QTimer::singleShot stops when application closed, but I need to make it run after my application closed. I will run application on background but i really don't want to see my application on open application screen.

Thanks for any help.

[vladestCh]

hi
please define, is your app really closed or just go into background?
for sure, you cant execute code (QTimer call) of an closed app
I think you have to put your app in backgraund and find an twiks to make your application non-visible in multitask screen

btw, what kind of application you writing? virus?

[Utoto]

Not virus I write an application that needs to get some information on specific times. I don't think it is a big deal if application shown in open application screen but my boss doesn't think so

[Utoto]

I didn't answer the important question , I want my application to close not stay background but I think it isn't possible to do such a think in symbian. I asked if there is such a think like Android's AlarmManager

[duncan.waugh]

Why do you want your application to close? Symbian has a proper, full-fledged multi-tasking implementation, unlike Android, so you can just define this functionality as part of a Symbian server which doesn't have a UI and configure it to launch when the phone boots.