drawing a CCoeControl from a server

Hi,

I was looking at the article on NewLC that describes how to display an icon next to the battery indicator on Series 60.  The idea is that the icon is visible even if the application is not in the foreground. 

http://www.newlc.com/How-to-draw-an-Icon-on-the.html

Excelent article.  I gave it a whirl and it worked first time in an application environment.  However my problem is that i would like to do it run the same functionality from a server rather than an application.

The code creates a CCoeControl that it then runs from an example application. 

The ConstructL of the CCoeControl in the example looks like this:

void CIndicatorIcon::ConstructL()
        {
        iMyWindowGroup = RWindowGroup(iCoeEnv->WsSession());
        User::LeaveIfError(iMyWindowGroup.Construct((TUint32)&iMyWindowGroup));

        iMyWindowGroup.SetOrdinalPosition(0, ECoeWinPriorityAlwaysAtFront);
        iMyWindowGroup.EnableReceiptOfFocus(EFalse);

        CreateWindowL(&iMyWindowGroup);

        // by default setting the indicator icon to inactive
        SetIndicatorIconL(EIndicatorIconAppActive);

        ActivateL();
        }


Here is where the problems started.  Since my component is not an application i don´t have an iCoeEnv.

I tried manually creating a session to the window server and then passing that in the contructor of the RWindowGroup which i then passed to the CreateWindowL.  I don´t get any errors or indications that there is a problem until i call CreateWindowL at which point (on the emulator) execution grinds to a halt somewhere in the system code giving me no clue as to what the problem is.

I´m not even sure if what i´m trying to do here is possible.  Can you use a CCoeControl class outside of the scope of an application?

If so does anyone have any ideas as to what i might have done wrong here or how i can better debug the code?

Best regards

PL