I intent to put some widgets on my launcher screen without the need of the users to pick from the widget list. I googled and found that this operation needs binding appWidgetId to AppWidgetInfo, which is only possible with the BIND_APPWIDGET permission. i.e. this operation is only possible in system app (but my launcher is not). Is my finding correct?
But I found that in GO Launcher, all its widgets can be put on the launcher screen automatically after download and installation. GO Launcher and its widgets should not be system apps. Any idea on how GO Launcher can implement the automatic widget adding to home screen?
Try this:
Answered here
The only issue remains that the added widget doesn't respond to clicks then.
Keep a track of answers here for a solution for that:
Widgets don't respond when re-added through code
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I am building an extension for Chrome and Can't decide If I should use chrome.windows.create type popup , panel or detached panel. I could not find a comparative study of the three options . Any links or short description of positives and limitations of each will be helpful .
Thanks
You are having difficulty understanding it, because unless you specifically enabled an experimental feature, they are exactly the same, or rather the latter ones are ignored and a popup type is created.
Unfortunately, this means that this API is unavailable for general use until Google decides to mark it stable.
Quoting the docs:
The 'panel' and 'detached_panel' types create a popup unless the '--enable-panels' flag is set.
As for what panels are, here is the API proposal with detailed description.
Panels are windows that are visible to the user even while the user is interacting with other applications. The small windows are positioned at the bottom of the screen, with minimal manual window management by the user. This API will allow extension developers to create and use panels.
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An extension opens small "pop up" windows, for example, separate chat sessions, calculator, media player, stock/sport/news ticker, task list, scratchpad, that the user wants to keep visible while using a different application or browsing a different web site. Scattered "pop up" windows are difficult for the user to keep track of, therefore panels are placed along the bottom of the screen and are "always on top".
The user would like easy control of chat windows: finding them, moving them out of the way, etc. Window management of separate chat "pop ups" is time consuming. All panels can be minimized/maximized together.
If you want a real-life example, the Hangouts extension is whitelisted to use this window type; that's how they make the chat panels:
Since chrome doesn't by default enable panels , this need to be set to display panel behavior instead of popup window . Note that popup windows can be re positioned and one can view console window , but none of it is available in panel .
I would like to create one website. This website will have behave differently if I am viewing it at a specific event via a kiosk. The kiosk, will just be an iPad. I believe I can figure out how to lock down the iPad to act like a kiosk and just show my website based on this http://www.webascender.com/Blog/ID/447/How-to-Setup-Kiosk-Mode-Lock-Your-iPad-to-Just-One-App#.U9Fx3oBdVX4
But what I am asking is, in code, is there a way to detect that I am in 'kiosk' mode and show different pages? For example, if you are at home(or anywhere that is NOT the event) you should be able to hit my website to find out all about my company and to view your existing profile. You should be able to see these same pages on the 'kiosk'(the iPad while at an event) but you will now see additional pages such as pages dealing with the specific event and payment pages. Vice-versa you might be able to see additional pages on the website while at home that you will not see while in 'kiosk' mode.
I do not know if the solution is tools/language dependent as we have not settled yet on all tools/languages/frameworks we will be using to build the site and so I am open to all but we will definitely have some javascript/css/html.
I believe you will need to write a native app in order to detect whether you are in 'guided access' aka 'kiosk' mode.
Taken from Detect or react to Guided Access?
NSLog(#"Accessabilitiy enabled: %#", UIAccessibilityIsGuidedAccessEnabled() ? #"YES" : #"NO");
if (!UIAccessibilityIsGuidedAccessEnabled()) {
// show something since I'm not in guided access
}
If you want to know when it changes...
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:#selector(guidedAccessChanged) name:UIAccessibilityGuidedAccessStatusDidChangeNotification object:nil];
- (void)guidedAccessChanged
{
// do something when guided access changes
}
If you must work with a website then what you can do is write a native app that embeds a UIWebView. This class allows you to show websites within a native app. So, what you could do with this method is pass along the guided access setting to your website so that it can adjust itself accordingly.
If you know the IP address you can direct views using PHP (and probably a host of other programs). Or you can lock the iPad to only open a specific URL (http://mysubdomain.mydomain.com) and only have pages that you want viewed by the kiosk. I'm sure there are a mess of other ways too.
In iOS, one doesn't need to add a close icon for an app. In the rare event that one wants to kill an app they can do it via the OS.
When looking at the cocos2d-x project that is created by default when using the console (v3.1.1), the sample HelloWorld scene places a button on screen to "close" the app.
Is this actually required in ANY platform ? Does it make sense to add this button at all ?
Apple usually rejects on this and Google and Microsoft don't like it.
You can, however, have close buttons on menus or popovers (say, like a pause screen).
I'm developing an app that needs to generate mouse events on a window Win32/WPF which may be minimized or hidden from view on the desktop.
I have tried the user32.dll APIs SendInput, SendMessage, PostMessage etc. These work only if the window is visible on the desktop. Would you know about any methods that work for hidden/inactive windows?
I've also tried .NET's UI Automation library. In this case, a window is brought to the front or I'm not able to get a clickable point for the control.
Any ideas how I can proceed? If I can proceed?
I don't know if you're still interested in an answer (I just stumbled upon this question out of sheer dumb luck), but have you tried making a global windows hook?
I have no honest idea on how to properly go about implementing one; but I know you should be able to add a global windows hook to, well, Windows, to listen for whatever events you want (should include mouse and keyboard events!)
Good luck...
This is more of a best practices question rater than something technical.
I'm working on a mobile app using the Flex 4.5 SDK and I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle notification windows. In most cases these windows will be alerting the user to when something goes wrong. Ex: bad login, no data, cannot resolve server.
I'm using a singleton design pattern, I have a Requests class that handles server calls. Most popups will be originating from this class (IOErrorEvents from my loader being used to access the API). Since this class is a singleton and is used from all Views inside the app it is not aware of applications current view. I'm also not sure having this class keep track of the current view and having it push popups on top of it would be best practice.
I'm hoping that I can use PopUpManager to keep track of where to add popups and what popups are currently on the stage. Though all examples I've seen online about this show static Components being used in a views Declarations tag.
I'm really just looking for any examples or input on how you would solve this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I had the same problem, and sorted it by making an Alert popup component that you can call from anywhere in the code base, and it will pop up in the currently active window. It also has an always visible scrollbar text area which is handy
http://bbishop.org/blog/?p=502
It works for a view navigator application, but if your using a tabbed navigator application, you can add a call for that, or simply change the code to
mainTabbedNavigator = FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication.tabbedNavigator;
currentTab = mainTabbedNavigator.selectedNavigator as ViewNavigator;