Opening sis application from homescreep wrt

developer.john

hi,

I have made the qt symbian application (sis file) and i want to make homescreen widget for that. I come across to wrt in that I can make homescreen widget, but the confusion is now to how can I open my application by clicking on homescreen widget?

or is there any possibility to create homescreen widget in qt symbian (dynamic data on screen)

I found wrt only so asking for the opening sis from wrt homescreen

Any ideas?

Thanks,
John

kamalakshantv

AFAIK Home screen api is currently available in Symbian only and not in Qt. A work around will be to create a wrapper home screen app and make it launch your Qt app.

developer.john

thanks for reply qtk

do you intended to create homescreen app in wrt or carbide? do you have/know any links that guides to do so?

john

kamalakshantv

Check the Symbian SDK on how to make use of Home Screen API in WRT. Use that to create a simple launcher.

"http://library.forum.nokia.com/index.jsp?topic=/Web_Developers_Library/GUID-B4DED978-123A-4F7A-AF72-616CF6F4E495.html
":http://library.forum.nokia.com/index.jsp?topic=/Web_Developers_Library/GUID-B4DED978-123A-4F7A-AF72-616CF6F4E495.html

Below wiki article shows how one can launch an app from the WRT

"http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/CS001162_-Launching_an_installed_application
":http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/CS001162-_Launching_an_installed_application

I have never tried this. But this should work.

developer.john

thanks qtk, have seen links, its much helpful, I will try for the same.

John

kamalakshantv

[quote author="tamhanna" date="1291462506"]Buyer beware here, however. Creating a homescreen widget for S^3 requires you to have the RCVT compiler.

No dice with GCCE![/quote]

Was not aware of this. Do you know of any more dependencies with RVCT compiler.

kamalakshantv

[quote author="tamhanna" date="1291464456"]Not sure. I am not sure whether it was RCVT - if you want, I can post the discussion thread re this with the maintainer of the homescreen here...[/quote]

I had faced certain issue in the past but then at that time using codesourcery's compiler worked.

kamalakshantv

[quote author="tamhanna" date="1291464927"]Hi,
which SDK did you use?

My tests all took place with the S^3 0.,9 SDK, extended with some plugins...[/quote]

With S^3 0.9 the GCCE compiler is updated. We had issues with the initial Beta SDK. Even N8 device available was a proto one.

developer.john

hi, Sorry for delay I was out of station for some urgent.

I have tried the way QTK said, and that worked like a charm, thanx for that mate.

The only problem I am getting is I getting two icons for both application, I mean sis file and wrt file, The application is one , Is there any way I can remove one icon, or in other way to say is , Is there any way I not put the app icon in application folder?

Thanks.