[SailfishDevel] Minimized Apps

r0kk3rz r0kk3rz at gmail.com
Mon Sep 8 20:49:50 UTC 2014


Screen On/Off makes no difference, bug is present whenever app is minimized.

Should I be watching an app state signal and performing some action when
the app is brought back into focus?

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Martin Kolman <martin.kolman at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  8.9.2014 21:44, r0kk3rz:
>
> I'm not expecting someone to fix my bug for me, just describe or point to
> a link or something that tells me what happens when a Sailfish App is
> minimized (status objects changed, signals that are called, anything?)
>
> It's a QtMultimedia based music player app, and my play queue stops
> updating the datamodel when the player reaches the end of one song and goes
> to the next in the queue, the player itself continues to work, but the
> datamodel that displays in the GUI becomes stops updating. This happens
> only when minimized, when the app is in focus the app works as expected.
>
> Does this happen also when the screen is on or off ? When the screen is
> off Sailfish behaves a bit like Android, freezing running apps/running
> timers after a few minutes, unless explicitly told otherwise.
>
>
>  Code is available here: https://github.com/r0kk3rz/SirenSong-Media-Player
> but again I'm not expecting anyone to fix it for me, just help me
> understand the environment better.
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Michael Neufing <m.neufing at yahoo.de>
> wrote:
>
>>  Hello,
>>
>>  I think, without further information on what your app does and what bug
>> occurs when your app is minimized, nobody is able to help you.
>>
>>
>>  Regards,
>>
>> Michael Neufing
>>
>>
>>    r0kk3rz <r0kk3rz at gmail.com> schrieb am 18:47 Montag, 8.September 2014:
>>
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>  Can someone explain what happens when an App gets minimized to the home
>> screen on Sailfish?
>>
>>  I have a bug that only occurs when the App is in minimized state, and
>> without really knowing what changes to look for it makes debugging hard.
>>
>>  Regards,
>>
>>
>>
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