Using foreground image

korakot (Korakot Chaovavanich) — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:26:37 GMT

You can draw directly to the phone screen.
It is useful for a notification from a background program.
You need to install fgimage.pyd from here.



import fgimage, e32



img = Image.new((100, 16))  # create a notification text

img.text((0, 14), u'Hello world', 0)



fg = fgimage.FGImage()

x, y = 0, 40           # position to draw

fg.set(x, y, img._bitmapapi())  # send it



e32.ao_sleep(1)

fg.unset()                # then clear it

See (a bit) more discussion here.

Switch application to foreground in pys60

korakot (Korakot Chaovavanich) — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:06:29 GMT

Taken from the 'appswitch' module here



import appswitch

print appswitch.switch_to_fg(u"Menu")

Updated (19 Oct 05)
==================
Now it can
- listing running applications
- switching them to foreground/background
- closing/killing apps



# listing

apps = appswitch.application_list(True) # true = include all

                                       # false = no hidden apps 

print apps



# to background and closing

print appswitch.switch_to_bg(u"TODO")

print appswitch.end_app(u"TODO")

DZone Snippets: foreground code

Using foreground image

Switch application to foreground in pys60