On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 14:46 +0200, ext Kristóf Timur wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have an interestion question. Been trying to figure it out for quite some > time now, with limited success so far. > I would like to have a way of creating homescreen widgets from inside a > separate (non hildon-home) process. (For example, by clicking on a button > from inside an application, or something like this.) > I was able to put together a solution which is able to do this, but as it > turns out, it ultimately fails on some important things. It is able to > restore the previous position of the homescreen widgets after a restart, but > it is ultimately flawed as it's unable to also restore the z-order of the > widgets (the order in which the desktop widgets are stacked on top of each > other). > > As I see it, the osso-abook-home-applet is able to do just what I want. It > manages the contact widgets in its own process and is also able to remember > the exact homescreen position and z-order of these widgets correctly. > So, I'm curious about how the osso-abook-home-applet is able to do this. It > is closed source so I can't look at its source code. I also think that > libhildondesktop may hold the answers that I need, but unfortunately it is > largely undocumented, so I can't really figure this one out on my own.
The Z ordering happens in hildon-desktop, see hd_home_view_restack_applets() in http://maemo.gitorious.org/fremantle-hildon-desktop/hildon-desktop/blobs/master/src/home/hd-home-view.c It uses "modified time" to stack the most recent uppermost. That is reset when ever tapping on an applet (see hd_home_view_applet_press()). Perhaps if you look at the code, you can find a way to stack it up (e.g. storing the modified time to GConf with your applet ID, or sending a fake ButtonPress event). -Kimmo > > If anyone has a clue about how to do this, I'd be more than happy if you > guys could help me with this. > > Thanks, > Timur Kristóf > (Venemo) > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
