How to set an alarm

[jensesaat]

Hi everybody,

i hope someone can help me.
I'm programming an alarm-app. The user shall define up to 4 alarm per day and the range of following alarms. Example: The user sets the alarm today and per day at 9.00, 12.00, 16.00 and 20 o'clock and the alarm shall be active until 29th Oct.(for 2 days). How to define the alarm? The documentation of the alarmserver-api is not so good at all. Or shall i program an extra application which runs in the background(with a timer) and an app which configures the alarms? Thank you!!! Jens

[vin2ktalks]

I hope this thread will help you out: RAlarmServer is deprecated.. So, where is the new AlarmShared.lib?

[jensesaat]

The Problem is how i can use the Alarms, i've no idea how to use the classes and functions. Has anyone some examples on how to create and work with the alarm-classes and the new alarm-classes? Would be nice.

Or is it possible to use the CAgn-Classes (Agenda) and start a foreign application via the Agenda-Classes?

Thanks for help!!!

[jensesaat]

No idea? Hm...the documentation in the SDK ist too... uhhhmmm....yes sou know it

[mayankkedia]

Did u try using :-

CCalEntry* myEntry = CCalEntry::NewL(TType aType, HBufC8 *aUid, TMethod aMethod, TUint aSeqNum, const TCalTime &aRecurrenceId, CalCommon::TRecurrenceRange aRange);

To create the Calendar Entry and then use something like :-

myEntry->SetAlarmL(myAlarm);

Prior to this make an alarm instance using :-

CCalAlarm* myAlarm = CCalAlarm::NewL();

And setting the time offset using:-

myAlarm->SetTimeOffset(TTimeIntervalMinutes aOffset);

I am sure you will more information on this in the SDK document.

Cheers

[jensesaat]

Hi mayankkedia!

Thanks for your answer, but that's not what i'm looking for. I need to start another application, because i want to show my own dialog which has a inputbox. Is there no way to start another application via the calender or alarms?

Thanks!

[mayankkedia]

You could also use the CPeriodic class..and for the same u can set the time to what u want..and then have it give a callback to the function u want to use to show the text popup or other functionalities..For this u need to do something like ->

TTime myTime;
myTime.HomeTime(); // sets the time to the current time
CEikTimeEditor myTimeEditor;
TTime myAlarmTime = myTimeEditor.Time();
TTimeMicroSeconds myTickInterval = myTime.MicroSecondsFrom(myAlarmTime); // This gives u the duration after which u should expect the call in your tick function
iPeriodicTimer = CPeriodic::NewL(CActive::EPriorityStandard);
iPeriodicTimer->Start(myTickInterval ,myTickInterval ,TCallBack(Tick, this));

Also if you wanted time settings in UTC u can make changes in confirmation with the SDK but that should not make much of a difference to you since u r any ways taking the duration..which will be the same in both the cases.

Where Tick is the function u should write to handle what u need done when the timer has fired that function.

You should ofcourse refine this approach to handle multiple scenarios..hope this does the job for you.

Cheers
Mayank

[jensesaat]

Thanks a lot.
The next step is to start my app on boot as a daemon. Maybe EZ-Boot may help.

Thank you.

[jensesaat]

the discussion goes on at http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...ad.php?t=94156

[kkrish]

for running your application at startup you need to define a Recognizer and it stored in \system\recogs\ folder.

this will create recognizer.
http://mikie.iki.fi/symbian/autostart.html


this link help you to alarm server.
http://mikie.iki.fi/lxr/source/Conte..._alarm.cpp#013