WAFs: useful hints and problems

[silver18]

Yep, that's the correct post!
This is one half of the communication system and it is "fully" documented.
The other part (sending infos from a shell script to a waf) is working but not yet documented.
Something could be done to the first part (from waf to shell) to avoid having a script always running even if the waf is closed, but I don't have time to think about it now!

[jnjitkoff]

No worries. Thanks for figuring this stuff out! Good luck with your thesis.

[eureka]

Originally Posted by jnjitkoff

Apologies, I meant the ability to call out to actual shell scripts to trigger behavior (not worried about reloading). Something like:

"aplay success.wav"

that you could do before waf-shell stuff got locked down in one of the 5.X releases.

kindle.messaging.sendMessage('com.lab126.system', 'sendEvent', ";sh -c 'aplay success.wav'");

Didn't check it, though.

[eureka]

How to hide only title bar (second command is required only if you are planning to have search bar displayed and want it to move upper a bit, onto title bar place):

# lipc-set-prop com.lab126.pillow interrogatePillow '{"pillowId": "default_status_bar", "function": "nativeBridge.hideMe();"}'
# lipc-set-prop com.lab126.pillow interrogatePillow '{"pillowId": "search_bar", "function": "nativeBridge.hideMe(); nativeBridge.showMe();"}'

To show title bar back:

# lipc-set-prop com.lab126.pillow interrogatePillow '{"pillowId": "default_status_bar", "function": "nativeBridge.showMe();"}'

[twobob]

Ah good man. Helpful

[jnjitkoff]

Originally Posted by eureka

How to hide only title bar (second command is required only if you are planning to have search bar displayed and want it to move upper a bit, onto title bar place)

Excellent. Thank you. This makes getting in and out of the state even easier.

One followup question: is there a good way to execute a command when a WAF is terminating? (reshowing the titlebar is a nice touch)

[silver18]

Originally Posted by jnjitkoff

Excellent. Thank you. This makes getting in and out of the state even easier.

One followup question: is there a good way to execute a command when a WAF is terminating? (reshowing the titlebar is a nice touch)

I'm facing the same problem.
You could use

kindle.appmgr.onunload = function() { };

or the stock

window.onunload = function() { };

As regards me, I need something a bit more complicated as I have mutiple HTMLs (and the first solution seem to work only in the landing page) and some other problems here and there.

[jnjitkoff]

Originally Posted by silver18

As regards me, I need something a bit more complicated as I have mutiple HTMLs (and the first solution seem to work only in the landing page) and some other problems here and there.

Maybe it is something worth restoring via the launching .sh file. Is it possible to monitor the process that is launched and execute a shell command on termination?

[PaulFreund]

Originally Posted by silver18

I'm facing the same problem.
You could use

kindle.appmgr.onunload = function() { };

or the stock

window.onunload = function() { };

As regards me, I need something a bit more complicated as I have mutiple HTMLs (and the first solution seem to work only in the landing page) and some other problems here and there.

I suggest wrapping the application in a Kindle object as I did in WebLaunch

This allow you to hook into "go", "unload" and "pause". "pause" is executed when the app leaves focus and "go" when it comes to focus. I think "unload" should be called when the app is really terminating, but I didn't capture that event yet.

When creating the base application with the Kindle template you can use kindle.chrome.createContentWindow() to load your other pages and keep the code active.

[silver18]

This is exactly what I'm doing in the next release of Komic.
I just needed to cut unneeded things away before adding something else.
This would also bring back pinch to zoom...