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Re: How to draw an Icon on the IndicatorPane of Series 60

tanvir — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:18:46 +0200

Hi,
Is there a s60 3rd edition version of this application?
Regards,
Tanvir

Re: How to draw an Icon on the IndicatorPane of Series 60

AbrarAhmed — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:55:03 +0100

Hi vin,

Nice article,thanks for that ...My question is if i lock keypad then the indicator disapear i want to show it on keypad lock also,how can i show that pls help buddy...

Re: How to draw an Icon on the IndicatorPane of Series 60

wjcrr — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:41:47 +0100

I like your sample ,think you very much , you are greate help to me,? and your application very good .

Re: How to draw an Icon on the IndicatorPane of Series 60

mayankkedia — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:11:15 +0200

Hi Vishal,

Your code works fine..but I see that it creates dummy application icons in the task list..for instance if u do a long press of the app launcher key on the s60 devices..it shows the list of running applications..there i can see more then one instance of my application running.

Have u observed something like this as well..?

Cheers
mayank

RE: Icon invisible

vin2ktalks — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:22:44 +0200

Hopefully you have to always monitor which process is on foreground, when ever you find that the foreground process is not Main screen you can disable the icon. I hope this tip from Forum Nokia Technical Library will be useful for you: How can I determine if a certain application is in the foreground? (TSS000058).

The UID for some processes (in 3rd Ed. phones).:

- Phone.exe : 0x100058B3
- Idle.exe : 0x101FD64C
- Menu.exe : 0x101F4CD2

--vin2ktalks

Icon invisible

jp4symbian — Sat, 19 May 2007 13:47:36 +0200

Hi vin2ktalks,

Have u been able to make the icon invisible when some other application(other than the one for which the icon is being setup in the context pane) is started?
And also the icon is visible again when we close that application and return to the menu.

In short, the indicator icon should be visible only when I am in Main Menu or Main screen and not inside any other application.

I tried various combinations of values in the function:
iMyWindowGroup.SetOrdinalPosition(0, ECoeWinPriorityAlwaysAtFront);

But i have not yet got the desired result.

If anyone else has found a solution to this problem, please post it here.

Thanks......

How to draw an Icon on the IndicatorPane of Series 60

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:33:26 +0100

The ontop window you create will clear the area, thats why your mask doesn't work.

There is an API for makeing windows transparent, and then not clear the area, but it is not supported in any current S60 phones I know of.

Don't know about UIQ based devices.

How to draw an Icon on the IndicatorPane of Series 60

Pawel — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:01:13 +0100

Hello there,

There seems to be a peculiar problem with drawing of floating windows in S60 v3. Would you mind checking the following link and letting me know what you think may be the cause?

http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=98273

How to draw an Icon on the IndicatorPane of Series 60

Villu — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:51:24 +0200

I was wondering exactly the same thing. No matter how hard I try to give the mask to the BitBltMasked, it just won't be transparent. Is there some issue with creating the window with the RWindowGroup?

How to draw an Icon on the IndicatorPane of Series 60

vin2ktalks — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:47:28 +0200

Can you tell me which games did you test with. In 6600 I've tested with 3D Snooker, Sky Force in those cases the icon was visible. But when I tested with Rally Pro Contest the icon was invisible.

Now come to the code, if you car cheching the CIndicatorIcon::ConstructL() function you can find the following line:

That is the line which will cause the icon visible always on top. But if you are opening some other application with more priority that ours then our icon will go to the background.

The first parameter of SetOrdinalPosition() is the priority. You can try with some higher priority if possible.

The document says:

How to draw an Icon on the IndicatorPane of Series 60

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:39:56 +0200

Honestly I tried this on couple Nokia's phones and got the same problem ;) Is there some way to get around it?

How to draw an Icon on the IndicatorPane of Series 60

vin2ktalks — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:19:00 +0200

Yes, the icon will be visible even if someone starts up full-screen applications including games.

NB: I've only tested this option with Nokia 6600.

How to draw an Icon on the IndicatorPane of Series 60

zabbas — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:00:37 +0200

What happend when someone will start up full-screen application like a game? Will this icon still be visible?

How to draw an Icon on the IndicatorPane of Series 60

Dario Consoli — Thu, 25 May 2006 17:21:09 +0200

Hi vin, I found your article very interesting. Is there a way to set the icon transparency?

Dario Consoli

How to draw an Icon on the IndicatorPane of Series 60

Jim Cai — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:07:12 +0100

A little bug still exists, the code should be:

// check to see if we have icons allocated if(iIndicator) delete iIndicator; iIndicator = NULL; if(iIndicatorMask) delete iIndicatorMask; iIndicatorMask = NULL;

How to draw an Icon on the IndicatorPane of Series 60

vin2ktalks — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:31:45 +0100

Here is a way to show an icon on the IndicatorPane of Series 60. You can show an icone near to the battery pane or signal pane, for that you have to customise the code.