[skewlboy]

Is it possible with PyS60? To develop a plugin for active standy screen? Like the new message, calendar entries, WLAN, etc, notifications?

I have made an application that keeps running in background and every 30min checks for some webpage update. I want to notify user (myself :P) of that update when it occurs. Globalui isn't what I want for this as if I couldn't bother to read the update at the time of the notification I would forget after. So, I've worked around it in 2 ways:
- SMS notification: as I have free text messages, I just send an SMS to myself, and get the notification on active standy
- Calendar entry: I add a calendar entry with notification and then remove it when application becomes foreground once again

The second one is my favorite and works pretty nicely. Though, the ideal would be to have my own plugin, so when I clicked the notification would pop up my app instead of calendar
I've searched a bit and found a few post saying it can't be done in PyS60, but I thought everything that could be done in C++ could be done in PyS60.. Or can't this be done in C++ either? How can we develop a plugin for it then? Or only nokia can ?

Thanks

[gaba88]

hi
i think you can write an extension in c++ plz have a look at this page for more details.

[skewlboy]

I know the articles about writing the extensions
Was just wondering if it is possible even in C++ because I read somewhere saying it wasn't, but I only trust this forum

[gaba88]

Originally Posted by skewlboy

I know the articles about writing the extensions
Was just wondering if it is possible even in C++ because I read somewhere saying it wasn't, but I only trust this forum

hi again
i will advice you to ask this question to a c++ expert or personally to persons who have worked on extensions.

Hope this helps you
Enjoy Pythoning
Gaba88

[skewlboy]

Yeah, I guess I changed this from a Python post to C++ one
I was hoping that there would be some extension already I couldn't find hehe
I'll ask in C++ forum then.

Thanks

EDIT:
Well it seems it isn't possible, so I'd like to retake this post for suggestion on the workaround, if anyone has ever worked around this

So, SMS and Calendar entries.
I like Calendar entries to avoid network usage, but SMS is really what I'd rather use, because of the notification being done accordingly to profile and everything.
I saw a "Fake SMS" symbian application other day which would "send" SMS to ourselves at specific times. It just added the SMS to our inbox, it didn't use the network.
I've been looking in inbox and messaging modules, but can't find out how to add a message to a folder without using messaging to send it over network..